Two sisters have been banned from a housing estate after a judge issued an anti-social behaviour order.
Jessica and Rachel Kirby were ordered to stay away from Clacton's Percy King estate for two years at Colchester Magistrates' Court yesterday. Police had asked for a three-year ban.
Jessica, 19, and Rachel, 17, both of Nayland Drive, were also barred from meeting up with another girl in public.
District judge David Cooper said: "Wandering around together, they set each other off."
Police had asked for the court to prevent the two sisters from going out on to the streets together, but it was over-ruled after the girls' solicitor said it was "unworkable".
The younger sister will be allowed to attend a centre on the Percy King estate on Friday afternoons. Jessica Kirby was told to complete a 15-month offender behaviour programme. The sisters were also ordered not to harass or distress anyone, use threatening behaviour, or intimidate any witnesses.
District Judge Cooper told Jessica Kirby: "If you break the terms of that order, you could go to prison for five years."
He told Rachel Kirby: "Break this order and you will come back in front of me and face a very long sentence indeed."
Published Friday July 16, 2004
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