Crown Prosecution Service drops Asbo condition relating to teenager's low-slung trousers
Neil Puffett
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
An attempt to ban a teenager from wearing low-slung trousers via an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) has been dropped.
The action had been considered for 18-year-old Ellis Drummond, of Rushden, Northants, but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) opted against calling for the ban after meeting with defence lawyers before the court hearing in Bedford.
Drummond was being sentenced at Bedford Magistrates' Court after he was convicted for assault, possession of drugs and a public order offence.
He was handed an Asbo barring him from using threatening behaviour and demanding money, and was also banned from entering Bedford College.
The Asbo condition relating to low-slung trousers would have banned Drummond from displaying his underwear in public in Bedford.
A CPS spokeswoman 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."
She added that the measure was deemed "no longer necessary or proportionate to protect the public from further acts of anti-social behaviour".
