A MAN banned from going to Newport city centre after a catalogue of anti-social behaviour has been jailed.
Mark Vance Samuels, 44, was handed a prison sentence following his defiance of a criminal behaviour order (CBO).
The three-year order was made after Newport Magistrates’ Court heard he had been a “nuisance” to people working in and visiting the city centre.
Samuels, formerly of Partridge Way, Duffryn, Newport, was jailed for 12 weeks after Cwmbran magistrates were told he had a “flagrant disregard for court orders”.
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He pleaded guilty to breaching the CBO after he was found on the city’s Commercial Street “without reasonable excuse” on November 18.
The defendant was also ordered to pay a £128 surcharge following his release from custody.
The CBO, which was imposed at Newport Magistrates’ Court on August 25, 2020, bars Samuels from:
- Engaging or threatening to engage in any conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance, alarm, harassment or distress by either words or actions to anyone in the city of Newport
- Entering Commercial Street, Commercial Road, Wyndham Street, High Street, Friars Walk and Griffin Street
- Urinating or defecating in any public open space including any shop doorway
- Begging from any person in the city of Newport
If Samuels breaches any of his order, he can be arrested.
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