Thu May 26, 2005 7:42 PM BST
MANCHESTER (
Reuters) - A Manchester court has banned a teenager from wearing a hooded top for five years after a campaign of violence, the city council said.
Dale Carroll, 16, threw fireworks at cyclists, threatened one with an axe and used a chainsaw to try to cut down a post holding a security camera, a court heard this week.
"This young man has caused absolute misery for the people he has terrorised in this neighbourhood and is out of control," Eddy Newman, a Manchester city councillor, said in a statement.
Police in towns around Britain have been taking action against anti-social behaviour by teenagers who wear the "urban crime" uniform of baseball caps and hooded tops.
Carroll will also be banned from his mother's home near Manchester, is not allowed to meet more than two people at a time -- except relatives -- and has been banned from having fireworks, axes or chainsaws.
Breaching the anti-social behaviour order would be a criminal offence that could carry a jail term of up to five years.
A teenager in Richmond, southwest of London, launched a High Court challenge on Thursday against a town centre curfew on under-16s, saying it infringed his right to liberty under the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as discriminated against him because he was a child.
