Teenage tearaway Ronnie Tretton, from Leigh, has been sentenced to another six months in jail.

Tretton, 19, the first youth in the area to be given an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO), is already serving a 23-month prison sentence

Yesterday, at Southend Magistrates' Court, Tretton, of Birch Close, Leigh, pleaded guilty to entering Greensward School, in Greensward Lane, Hockley, as a trespasser, and attempting to burgle St Theresa's School, in Ashingdon Road, Rochford.

The court was told he tried unsuccessfully to get into several locked classrooms at Greensward. Nothing was taken from either school.

Tretton also admitted allowing himself to be driven in a vehicle which had been taken without consent.

District Judge Ken Sheraton sentenced him to six months, the sentence to run concurrently with the sentence he is already serving.

Tretton was also ordered to pay a £100 fine or spend one day in custody, as well as being disqualified from driving for six months.

In April 2002, Tretton became the first youth in the area to be punished with the new ASBO powers.

In September he was sentenced for three burglaries, failing to surrender to custody, passing counterfeit currency and breaching community punishment and ASBO orders.

He was sentenced to 23 months - but because of the time he spent on remand waiting to be sentenced, and taking into account his behaviour while in prison, he could be out of jail by next summer.

Published Wednesday December 17, 2003

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