AN ABUSIVE drunk made the subject of a "wanted" poster campaign has been hit with a landmark 15-month jail term for breaching an order imposed to curb his unruly behaviour.
Dave Mark
Last month posters of John Martindale, like the one on the right, were plastered across Hull after the 60-year-old was given a second anti-social behaviour order, in one of the
first cases of its kind in the UK.
Accused of violence and intimidati
on and violence towards women and children, he was named and shamed in more than 100 posters in a move that police hoped would restrict his behaviour.
The posters showed his photograph and asked people to call authorities if he was abusive or threatening.
But Martindale is now behind bars, having breached the order.
He was given one of the UK's toughest sentences for breaching an order after shouting abuse at a woman on her doorstep.
The move has been welcomed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Humberside Police.
Martindale had been banned from using threatening behaviour anywhere in East Yorkshire under one order covering the East Riding and another covering Hull.
But only two days after being given the second order, Martindale, of Pendrill Street, west Hull, breached the first.
The known drunk, who is also banned from Beverley town centre, knocked on the door of a woman aged 38 in Oaklands Drive, Hessle, asking for a lift to Barton-Upon-Humber. After she refused he became aggressive and started shouting and swearing at her until she called the police.
Martindale pleaded guilty and was given a 12-month conditional discharge for being drunk and disorderly at Beverley Magistrates' Court before being sent to Hull Crown Court, where he received the sentence.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said the sentence showed that "Asbos" really do "have teeth".
He said: "The CPS will certainly support such prosecutions for breaches."
Martindale's first order was slapped on him in July after he was convicted of harassing a woman in Bridlington.
Humberside Police anti-social behaviour officer Vickie Blaney said: "Nobody can say Asbos are the soft option now.
"This sentence really shows how serious we are with Asbos. If you break the conditions you could be locked up for a long time. It is as simple as that."
Martindale was previously given an Asbo by East Riding authorities banning him from Beverley. But the first order simply moved the problem on to Hull.
