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ASBO for teenager after memorial service threats
Rob Waugh A TEENAGE girl who featured in a TV documentary about a white family living in a predominately Asian area of Bradford has been handed an ASBO for interrupting a memorial service in honour of the London terrorist attack victims.
Ashleene Gallagher, 15, who was shown going to a mosque and embracing Islamic culture in the Channel 4 programme The Last White Kids, shouted out: "They should come to Bradford and blow you lot up", during a ceremony marking the London bombings in Bradford's Centenary Square.
She was handed a three- year anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) by Bingley magistrates yesterday for the insensitive remarks as well as a host of other offences.
Harjit Ryatt, prosecuting, said Gallagher had been arrested 15 times since June 2005 for her unruly behaviour.
Two years ago the documentary showed how she had become drawn to the local Wahibi mosque after her family moved to Manningham area in 2001.
Gallagher was filmed attending lessons at the mosque where she won the approval of the Imam with her ability to memorise passages from the Koran.
Ashleene, her sister, Amie, and brother, Jake, were described as "amazing, very bright, engaging and funny" by the film's director at the time.
The court imposed the ASBO after being presented with a dossier of 27 complaints by Mr Riyatt, representing Bradford Council, who applied for the order.
The dossier said that in June and July of this year Gallagher committed public order offences including theft, burglary and – on one occasion – spitting chewed up pieces of paper through a straw at Bradford Interchange.
She was also said to have thrown objects at police vehicles in the car park behind Bradford Central police station.
Her defence solicitor Paul Brunskill said the defendant did not oppose the ASBO but was concerned about the length of time it would be imposed.
He said: "Gallagher's main problem has been due to those she associates with, hopefully this will no longer be a problem."
As part of the ASBO Gallagher is prevented from any activity that would cause others harm or distress.
She is prohibited from entering any private dwelling without permission and congregating or associating in large groups in public.
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