AN 11-year-old Clitheroe boy who became one of the youngest in the country to be made subject to an anti-social behaviour order has been fined £20 for breaching the order.
The boy, who can not be named for legal reasons, admitted approaching St James' Primary School, knocking on the door and then leaving.
Defence solicitor Graham Parkinson told Blackburn magistrates his client had done "next to nothing" and accused the police of failing to "exercise any degree of common sense".
The court heard the boy was made subject to the order in November. He admitted breaching that condition.
Christiana Buchanan, prosecuting, said that the headmaster knew the boy from some years earlier and he became aware that after the imposition of the order that the boy had started appearing around the school.
Mr Parkinson told the magistrates that since the order had been imposed the boy had not been in any further trouble.
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