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Pull Up Your Pants!

  • 11-05-2010 11:56pm
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    starbelgrade
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    Bid to impose asbo for wearing low-slung trousers dropped
    Prosecutors abandon efforts to force 18-year-old Ellis Drummond to pull his trousers up.
    Ellis Drummond, 18, was facing an asbo preventing him from "wearing trousers so low beneath the waistline that members of the public are able to see your underwear". He would have been banned from displaying his underpants anywhere in public in the borough of Bedford, and wearing a hood up in any public place in the area.

    The Crown Prosecution Service said it had intended to include the prohibitions in an asbo for Drummond, from Rushden, after he was convicted of assault, possession of drugs and a public order offence at Bedford magistrates court on 27 April. But before the court hearing, and following discussions with Drummond's defence solicitor, it was decided that the bans were "no longer necessary or proportionate to protect the public from further acts of anti-social behaviour", the CPS said.

    Also abandoned were proposals to ban Drummond from entering Bedford bus station and the McDonald's restaurant in Bedford High Street. Instead, he was given an asbo banning him from approaching anyone and seeking money or personal items of property belonging to them using threatening words or behaviour, from entering the building or grounds of Bedford College (a further education college), and from using threatening, abusive or intimidatory behaviour or encouraging others to do the same.

    The CPS said: "It is important to bear in mind that the case for including the prohibitions relating to Mr Drummond's clothes was never argued in court.

    Full article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/04/asbo-low-slung-trousers-dropped


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