TEN years ago this week, 14-year-old Kye Green was given North East Lincolnshire's first ever Asbo.
Ten years on, we tried to track him down – and discovered that Green, now aged 24, is in prison for an attempted handbag snatch.
The latest incident in Green's notorious criminal career might suggest that Asbos don't work, but today his family has told how the Asbo helped stop much of his loutish behaviour.
In the past decade, there has been an anti-social behaviour order imposed, on average, once a fortnight in this area.
Grimsby magistrates have made 236 orders for a variety of problems, from youths terrorising their neighbourhoods and shoplifters to regular drinkers causing a nuisance.
There are currently 85 in force, and 11 people have been given repeated Asbos.
Back in 2003, the Asbo was given to Kye Green for allegations of burglary and assault. These charges were later dropped and changed to use of abusive, insulting, offensive or threatening language and the order was also extended to include a no-go area on parts of the then Yarborough Estate, where he lived at the time.
He went on to breach it three times over the next year.
In 2006, he was jailed for breaching a suspended prison sentence, and in March 2007, was given his "last chance" to avoid another jail term after admitting interfering with a vehicle and assaulting a police officer. On March 30 that year, he appeared on the Grimsby Telegraph's front page, vowing to turn his life around.
Now, Green, of Macaulay Street, is in prison, awaiting sentence next month.
Despite this, a relative said the Asbo helped stop a lot of his loutish behaviour.
The relative, who did not wish to be named, said: "It helped because he soon realised he was always getting into trouble. Instead he got into a relationship and they had two children.
"He kept out of trouble for about three or four years; it is only since they split up that he has got into trouble."
See what the officer in charge of Asbos has to say in today's Grimsby Telegraph
