A TEENAGER who bombarded neighbours with a torrent of abuse has been made the subject of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo).

Jason Brannigan, 14, was warned that unless he stopped his behaviour he would face detention.

Neighbours told District Judge Michael Wood how Brannigan constantly played loud music, slammed doors and hurled abuse at them in the street.

They also told how he held a speaker from an upstairs window while blasting out music, threw items at two pensioners and urinated outside a nearby Salvation Army centre.

Neighbour Jane Pennick was close to tears when she told how the teenager, of Verdun Terrace, West Cornforth, County Durham, kicked her front door and threatened to burn her house down.

She said: "There was constant noise day after day after day and it really does wear you down. Even when it stops, we are waiting for it to start again."

Brannigan, who appeared at Bishop Auckland Magistrates' Court denied all the accusations and said his neighbours had lied.

District Judge Wood said he felt the case had been proved and made Brannigan the subject of an Asbo for five years.

The decision came 11 days after his father, Terence, was made the subject of an Asbo.

The order stops Brannigan from urinating in public; assaulting, harassing, intimidating, threatening or abusing any person; damaging, taking or interfering with the property of others; directing missiles at members of the public or residential properties; playing music, televisions, radios, videos or DVDs that could annoy others; causing a nuisance to neighbours by banging on walls; kicking or banging on any residential property or inciting others to commit any act prohibited by the order.