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Last Updated: Thursday, 3 July, 2003, 15:59 GMT 16:59 UK
Boy's racist language ban
Darren Parkinson
Parkinson is also banned from riding motorcycles
An 11-year-old boy has been banned by magistrates in Manchester from using racist language.

The city council say that Darren Parkinson has also been excluded by the court from large parts of the city centre for his "horrifying behaviour".

Magistrates in Manchester were told of one incident in which he went on a rampage in a shop at the Central Retail Park.

Parkinson rode up and down aisles on a scooter with staff and security guards in pursuit.

Councillor Basil Curley, executive member for housing on Manchester City Council, said: "The behaviour of this boy has been horrifying and his language has been dreadful and upsetting.

"This order is designed to curtail his activities and hopefully steer him towards better behaviour, while at the same time protecting shoppers and staff at the retail centre and elsewhere from this kind of loutish behaviour."

Retail park ban

Parkinson had also been apprehended for threatening a neighbourhood warden with a bottle, breaking into a car and shoplifting.

He was also accused of breaking into empty homes on the Cardroom estate, throwing stones at police and using racist language.

His behaviour has forced his parents to move from the Cardroom estate to Moston. They deny their son used racist language.

The anti-social behaviour order contains a ban on using threatening, insulting or abusive language, including racist language, and from behaving anti-socially.

It also states that Parkinson cannot communicate with any witnesses, ride motorcycles and is banned from the retail park and some areas of Miles Platting.




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