Daniel Laws receives suspended sentence after breaching ASB criminal behaviour order

 

Daniel Laws, 33 of Tarn Rise in Nuneaton, has been sentenced after breaching a criminal behaviour order requiring him not to enter Nuneaton town centre.

Laws appeared in Coventry Magistrates Court on Monday 20 May. He received a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 15 months.

He is also required to pay a victims' surcharge of £154 and to complete 15 days of rehabilitation activities. 

The criminal behaviour order was put in place in response to previous incidents of antisocial behaviour and shoplifting in the area by Laws.

Laws was discovered on Stratford Street by town centre officer PC Tom Shorthouse while he was on patrol.

Sgt Chris Studd of the Nuneaton & Bedworth Safer Neighbourhood Team said “Anti-social behaviour, while not treated as a crime, still has a very real negative impact on the community – there is evidence from YouGov to suggest that one-in-four victims of ASB nationally said it made them feel unsafe, and one-in-ten felt the need to move home because of it.

“Criminal behaviour orders give us important powers to target repeated perpetrators of ASB, to keep our communities safe, and to prevent ASB from escalating into worse behaviours in future.”