A yob who used a golf club during a four man scuffle outside his family home has been barred from his own estate.
Jack Roach was jailed earlier this week for 11 months after he and his father got involved in a fight outside their home in Woodchurch in September last year.
The incident, which was triggered over an alleged bike theft, saw Roach and his father David battle with brothers Brendan and Michael Kennedy, who came to their Greenwood Road house before a lengthy brawl started.
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While the other three defendants in the case avoided prison, Jack Roach was jailed by the judge as the court he already has a significant list of previous convictions despite him only being 19 years old. A previous conviction for possessing an offensive weapon meant the judge in his case was compelled to jail him unless it would have been unjust to do so.
As well as handing him time behind bars, Recorder Daniel Prowse also granted a criminal behaviour order in order to try to limit his offending in the future. When granting criminal behaviour orders, judges can consider evidence from police that has not formed part of the criminal proceedings and use that when considering what restrictions a defendant should face.
That meant in this case that a series of restrictions are now in place dictating where he can and can’t go and who he can speak to. In particular, the order bars him from significant parts of the Woodchurch estate, where his own family live, because of his links to potential disorder there.
It also bars him from associating with a number of men whom it is alleged he could engage in criminal behaviour with, though this restriction applies only within Merseyside. Roach is also barred from riding electric bikes, scooters or quad bikes as part of the order, which will last for four years.
The judge, Recorder Daniel Prowse, said Roach had a “serious and worrying criminal history” for someone of his age and appealed to him to change his ways upon his release from prison.
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