A YOUTH who went on a drunken rampage, slashing the tyres of more than 20 cars, has been given an an anti-social behaviour order.

Ricky Lee Beadle, of High Hope Street, Crook, County Durham, pleaded guilty to six cases of criminal damage, two matters of common assault, and one charge of carrying a bladed article with intent to cause damage when he appeared at South Durham Magistrates' Court, in Newton Aycliffe, yesterday.

Twenty other cases of criminal damage were taken into consideration .

The 17-year-old was also given a six-month detention and training order.

Magistrates heard how Beadle had been drinking in his home with a friend, on April 13, when the two of them broke a pair of steel scissors in half and set off for a walk around the town, slashing tyres in High Hope Street, Royal Grove, Arthur Street, Gladstone Street, Grey Street and West Road.

The court was also told how he lost complete control when drunk, assaulting his mother and step-father and throwing a bicycle at a window in the family home, on April 30.

Clive Booth, for Beadle, said the teenager's behaviour was related to drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis.

He said that his client had lost everything and was no longer welcome in his family home.

His anti-social behaviour order, which covers the whole of County Durham, prohibits him from trespassing on any private property, possessing any metal bar or any offensive weapon or article in any place to which the public have access, damaging any property belonging to others except with their permission, assaulting, harassing, intimidating, threat- ening or abusing any person, and inciting or en-couraging others to commit any act prohibited by this order.

The magistrates lifted reporting restrictions on naming Beadle.

* Another youth from High Hope Street was ordered to be locked up for breaching his anti-social behaviour order.

Kieran Thomas Young,16, was given a six-month detention and training order after pleading guilty to burglary.

The magistrates heard how Young and another youth broke into a shed in High Hope Street to steal a motorbike on April 22. When the bike did not work, the two returned to the shed the next day to steal a second bike.

Both vehicles were recovered.