Youth broke Asbo rules.

TROUBLEMAKER John Ashley Jamieson was back in bother less than 12 hours after a court imposed a conviction-related anti-social behaviour order on him.

Jamieson, 18, of Gloster Meadows, Amble, was convicted of witness intimidation and given a three-year Crasbo after magistrates at Alnwick were told of his anti-social and offending behaviour in and around his home town over the past few years.

Among the restrictions imposed on Jamieson by the Crasbo was one banning him from any pub on the Amble and Broom hill Pub Watch Scheme.

But at 10pm on the same day that magistrates imposed the order Jamieson walked into the Well wood Arms in Amble.

When Jamieson was brought back before Alnwick magistrates James Long, prosecuting, said: "This certainly must be one of the swiftest breaches of an Asbo ever made."

Magistrates at the original hearing had imposed a 7pm to 7am curfew on Jamieson as part of their sentence on him for witness intimidation.

At the original hearing Jamieson was also given a 12-month community order for 250 hours of unpaid community work for intimidating Kevin Bell outside a pizza shop in Queen Street, Amble, after he was alleged to have assaulted Mr. Bell in March. He was acquitted of the assault in July.

When he appeared back before magistrates after breaching the Crasbo he was remanded in custody to return for sentence later this month.