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Teen terror and mum face court
Apr 10 2002
By Ross Mccarthy, Evening Mail
A mother and son who led a campaign of harassment against shop traders in a Birmingham suburb have been warned they face being locked up.
Karen Wilkins, 38, and son Adam, 14, of Harvington Road, Weoley Castle, agreed to be bound by anti social behaviour orders following an application by the city council.
They appeared alongside 17-year-old Luke Goodby, of High Street, Harborne, who joined them in the bizarre series of attacks.
A spokeswoman for the council said the orders had been applied for following allegations of racial abuse of shopkeepers and their customers in Weoley Castle. There had also been complaints of youths hanging around in large groups, criminal damage to shops, broken windows, vandalism and graffiti.
Abusive youths had been arrested on a number of occasions.
Stefan Kolodynski, for the city council, told Birmingham magistrates the two teenagers and the woman had been summoned to court as a result of a spate of incidents.
District Judge David Chinery it would have been "very distressing" for the victims in the case and he was satisfied the three of them had behaved in an anti social manner.
He said if Karen Wilkins breached the two year order she could be sent to prison while her son and Goodby could receive a detention and training order.
The term of the order included a ban on acting in a way that would cause harassment, alarm or distress to others in the Birmingham local authority, damaging property or encouraging others to do the same.
