The papers agree ASBOs work. Both report that Leeds City Council applied to have the ASBO lifted. But wait. The Mail calls Walker a "teenage tearaway". It mentions that the order barred him from certain areas of the city, forbade him from causing a nuisance and prohibited him from wearing a hooded top or balaclava.
Yet the Mirror summed him up as a former heroin dealer. Surely an ASBO isn't the way the justice system usually treats someone like Walker, who admitted dealing in drugs since the age of 15, and had convictions for robbery and burglaries? Is dealing in heroin regarded as causing a nuisance? Is it on a par with wearing a hoodie?
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