I want a decent job and everything I want in life

Ben White

They blamed their behaviour on boredom and peer pressure.

The younger brother Robert - who said he had been shoplifting, fighting and stealing cars since the age of 12 because he was "bored" - told the programme that he was "determined to change".

"I have to go and live with my cousins, so that will change me, hopefully," he said.

Robert, who said he wanted to be a lorry driver, said he was no longer at school because he had struggled with the work.

"I just could not get on with the work - I did not like doing it. I didn't like people telling me what to do."

'Hanging around'

Asked if his father had tried to stop him from getting into trouble, Robert said: "He tried, but every kid has got their own mind, haven't they?"

When questioned about the best advice to keep youths out of trouble, he said: "Stop hanging around with gangs. But everywhere you go there is always a gang, isn't there?"

The White brothers were among the youngest boys in the country to be subject to an Asbo when the orders were first imposed on them two years ago.

'Decent job'

Ben told the Kilroy programme he had been involved in shoplifting, theft and vandalism, but said there was "nothing to do" in Weston and claimed he was "no good" at anything.

He wanted to earn a living, get married and have children, he said - and complained that no one would give him a job because of his reputation.

"I want a decent job and everything I want in life," he said.

"I want to be a bricklayer. But I went on the course and because of my name they said get off the course - no one would give me a chance."