A man has been remanded into custody after he failed to adhere to a court order banning him from Nottingham city centre.
Jerome Banton, aged 40, was made the subject of a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) on 8 August after a successful police application to Nottingham Magistrates’ Court.
The order, granted for a period of two years, prohibits him from entering the city centre.
Neighbourhood officers applied for the order after he was involved in over 18 incidents in the past five months, including assaults, shoplifting and being drunk and disorderly in a public place.
As part of the order, Banton was required to attend rehabilitation appointments to help him turn his life around.
On Tuesday (19 August), he was spotted in Clumber Street. Officers arrested him and charged him with breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO).
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Banton, of no fixed address, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court the next day, where he was jailed for four weeks, suspended for 12 months.
He was further ordered to pay a £154 court surcharge and £85 costs.
Two days after the sentencing, he was arrested again after a neighbourhood officer spotted him in Trinity Square. Banton was placed before the same court the next day (Friday 22 August) and was remanded into custody ahead of a bail application hearing on Thursday (28 August).
Sergeant Chris Johnson, of the City Centre neighbourhood policing team, said:
“We want everyone who is working, visiting or living in the city centre to feel safe and that is why we continue to patrol the streets, deterring and detecting crime.
“These are the latest incidents in which it’s been necessary to take Banton into custody.
“Having exhausted the options that were available to us, we were left with no option other than to suggest to the court that Banton be made subject to a Criminal Behaviour Order.
“The fact Banton breached this order only days after it was imposed shows how little regard he has for the law and indeed the courts.
“I am pleased he has been remanded in custody while he awaits further court proceedings.”
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