A TEENAGER has been banned from entering a shopping centre in Harlow after being charged with causing harassment, alarm or distress.

Logan Howe, 18 of Spring Hills, Harlow was given a Criminal Behaviour Order at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Friday last week (16 February).

He has now been banned from entering the Harvey Centre and any of the adjoining buildings, or the car park for two years after "persistent anti-social behaviour".

He’d been charged with using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm, or distress and failing to comply with a community protection notice – offences to which he had pled guilty.

Lowe had been banned from the Harvey Centre by the centre itself when security found him inside it on January, 2 this year.

When he was approached by security staff he became abusive He had also previously given a Community Protection Notice (CPN) in July last year, due to previous anti-social behaviour, which made him subject to conditions including not entering Harlow town centre, only to attend with an appropriate adult, only to attend for medical appointments or transport, and only to attend for work experience.

Lowe’s presence in the shopping centre on January, 2 breached the conditions of his CPN.

PC Phillippa Stephens said: “Members of the public visiting the Harvey Centre, and staff working there, should be able to go about their day-to-day lives without being impacted by someone else’s anti-social behaviour.

“Logan Howe’s actions are not acceptable and he now faces a possible prison sentence should he breach his CBO.

“Anti-social behaviour has fallen by a third in Harlow in the last year – that works out as nearly 480 fewer incidents – and we’re determined to keep it falling.

“It blights the lives of our hard-working communities and we will not stand for it.

“If there is anti-social behaviour where you live or work, we need you to tell us about it. Only by reporting issues can we address them.”