Interim Asbo until autumn (From Witney Gazette)

Interim Asbo until autumn

3:52pm Monday 6th August 2007 in Witney

AN interim Asbo given to alleged 'nightmare neighbour' Stephen O'Leary has been extended until September.

O'Leary, 47, who lives in a Cottsway Housing Association flat, in Cornish Road, Chipping Norton, has already been banned from using all Stagecoach buses after using threatening behaviour towards passengers and drivers.

He is also claimed to have harassed his neighbours and threatened them with violence.

At a hearing at Banbury Magistrates' Court in July, district judge Brian Loosley made him the subject of an interim antisocial behaviour order.

This was the result of evidence gathered over the past six months by the West Oxfordshire Community Safety Partnership.

It was due to be reviewed on Thursday, but O'Leary failed to attend the hearing, and the interim Asbo was extended until September 27, when the case for imposing a permanent order will be heard.

West Oxfordshire District Council antisocial behaviour officer, Clive Henry, said if O'Leary failed to show up for the next hearing, the order would be imposed in his absence.

This could run for at least two years.