A Little Hulton man placed under one of Greater Manchester Police’s first ever civil injuctions has been jailed for 20 days.
Curtis O’Brien, 27, was one of 13 people in October 2015 ordered to stick to certain conditions, including not having handheld weapons in their possession, and bans from going into certain streets on the Amblecote estate.
Police found that O’Brien broke the terms of the injuction three times by not declaring his mobile number to officers, causing harassment, alarm and distress to a police officer and returning to Thornfield Grove in Little Hulton.
O’Brien appeared before Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday 20 April 2016 and sentenced to 20 days in prison.
The orders came after months of violence in Little Hulton, where houses were shot at and people injured by gunfire.
Police were investigating how since September 2015 rival gangs were increasingly using firearms to intimidate one other.
It’s understood businesses owned and operated by those associated to gang members have also been targeted in burglaries.
Darren Williams, 34, was shot three times on his doorstep on Coniston Avenue in October 2015.
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The original interim civil orders were due to expire on 22 April 2016.
Also on Wednesday 20 April three men were given five-year civil injunctions: Ryan Deans, 27, of no fixed address, Connor Holland, 21, of Gorse Drive, Little Hulton and Steven Wimbleton, 22, of Shillingten Close, Little Hulton.
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Superintendent Mark Kenny of Salford division said: “These injunctions were put in place after a series of violent incidents in Salford that we were determined to put a stop to.
“This is the first time that GMP has been granted full civil orders in Greater Manchester under the new legislation and is just one of the ways that we have been working to make our community a safer place to live.
“The application for civil orders demonstrates our determination to hold to account those who cause misery in the community.
“I would encourage members of the public to please inform us if any of these injunctions are breached, so we can take action.”
“I want to remind people that they can come and speak to our officers, but if they don’t feel that they can do this, they can call Crimestoppers and remain completely anonymous.”
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
