Council gets man banned from parts of three towns

A STREET drinker has been handed a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) banning him from entering parts of Ilfracombe, Barnstaple and Bideford following a prosecution brought by North Devon Council.

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Kevin Trigg, aged 39 and of no fixed abode, was found guilty of failing to comply with a Community Protection Notice at a hearing at Barnstaple Magistrates’ Court on Friday, May 8.

Trigg was served with the notice on February 11 following repeated incidents of antisocial behaviour.

It prohibited him from consuming or being in possession of alcohol in any area of North Devon covered by a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) or acting in a threatening or intimidating manner.

Magistrates were told that on the morning of February 24 Trigg was seen drinking alcohol in Ilfracombe High Street before exposing himself, shouting and banging bins.