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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Alan Weston

What happened to ASBOs and what they stopped people from doing

In the fast-moving world of anti-social behaviour and attempts to stamp it out, legal penalties have gone under a number of official names - the most famous being the ASBO.

The ECHO reported yesterday (Thursday) how a 10-year-old boy, who was one of the youngest people ever to receive an anti-social behaviour order, went on to become a teenage drugs gang boss but got stabbed 27 times with a machete.

Alfie Hodgin's dealing was uncovered by police after they found him lying in the street in a pool of his own blood. The vicious assault had been an act of "retribution" after the 18-year-old had stolen drugs and a graft phone belonging to the county lines operation he had previously been working for.

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