THE ringleader of a gang of teenage tearaways who terrorised a Middlesbrough estate has been hit with a wide-ranging banning order.

Jordan Lever was given a two-year Anti-Social Behaviour Order when he appeared before Teesside Magistrates.

The 16-year-old is now banned from a number of areas of Hemlington where he and a gang of associates brought misery to local residents.

Under the order, Lever is banned from:

:: Using or inciting others to use threatening, intimidating, insulting or abusive words or behaviour in public

:: Acting or inciting others to act in an anti-social manner, causing harassment, alarm or distress to other people

:: Approaching or intimidating named individuals or gather in a group of more than three people, where their behaviour is likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress

:: Associating in public with a number of named individuals unless required to do so in the course of attending court, police premises or when requested to do so by the Probation or Youth Offending Services  

Lever is also banned from entering three areas of Hemlington and the Viewley Centre where customers and shop staff were also harassed and intimidated.

He faces a possible jail term if he is found to have breached any of the terms of his ASBO.