ASBO for wheelchair man

Wheelchair-bound Ian MacKenzie, 47, has been slapped with an ASBO after a string of misdemanours which wound up locals and shopkeepers in Preston, Lancashire, including threatening to squirt passers-by with the contents of his colostomy bag.

He also bombarded emergency crews with 999 calls in which he told telephone workers how dolphins mated. He would shout foul mouthed abuse at schoolchildren and threw himself from his wheelchair onto the ground in car parks.

Police collected a dossier of his bizarre nuisance behaviour in the Sharoe Green area and presented it to city magistrates.

It included:

* hurling himself out of his wheelchair into main roads and supermarket car parks

* throwing his colostomy bag on the floor in front of shops and threatening to squirt passers-by with the contents

* relieving himself on the pavement in front of local businesses

* telephoning his neighbourhood police office to demand a lift home when it was raining

MacKenzie, of Ashness Close, Fulwood, was facing up to five years jail, but Preston magistrates issued him with an ASBO ordering him to behave himself.

The order which bans him from his regular haunts will run until October 2009.