Woman Banned from Every Pub in England and Wales.

[Nutso]

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Woman becomes first person banned from EVERY pub and club in the country

By Andy Dolan
Last updated at 10:54 AM on 16th April 2010

A woman has become the first person to be banned from buying or drinking alcohol anywhere in England and Wales.

Laura Hall, 20, was issued with a Drinking Banning Order - nicknamed Booze Asbos - which bars her from entering any pub, club, off-licence or bar.

The two-year order also bans Hall from buying alcohol at any other establishment or shop, carrying it in an unsealed container or drinking it in a public place.

Last orders: Laura Hall cannot enter a pub or club for two years after committing a series of public order offences in Bromsgove, Worcestershire

Police applied to magistrates after Hall was convicted of breaching an Asbo imposed for drink-related anti-social behaviour.

She has been convicted of a series of public order offences, and had flouted bans from pubs and clubs through local Pub-Watch schemes in her home town of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

Kidderminster Magistrates' Court heard yesterday that Hall faces a £2,500 fine if she breaks the conditions of the order.

Sergeant David Roberts, of West Mercia Police, said: 'There have been some Drinking Banning Orders issued already but this is the first to be issued on a nationwide basis.

'It bans Laura Hall from drinking or buying alcohol in any licensed premises across England and Wales. The conditions will also help to protect the public from the anti-social effects of Laura's behaviour.'

Officers applied for a DBO rather than another Asbo because Hall would be at risk of prison if she breached it again.

'We want to rehabilitate her rather than send her straight to jail, and hope the banning order will help Laura address her problems,' he said.

Under the terms of the order, Hall must attend an approved alcohol-misuse course. If she completes it without breaching any of its terms, the DBO could be lifted after 12 months.

Since their introduction in September, police and local authorities can ask magistrates to impose the orders on anyone responsible for alcohol-fuelled crime or anti- social behaviour to stop them drinking or entering licensed premises.

They cannot be issued to anyone with mental health problems or alcoholics.

But Rachel Seabrook, spokesman for the Institute of Alcohol Studies, said: 'I think most of the disorder problems we see around alcohol reflects a lack of police enforcement powers and policing laws.

'I am not opposed in principle but I do have doubts about whether it's a realistic thing to enforce. How can a police officer in, say Wales, know whether this women has been banned if she turns up in his town?'

A study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation last year found that female binge drinking had almost doubled over the last decade. According to Government statistics, the number of women involved in alcohol-related crime rose 30 per cent between 2005 and 2007.

Will Scotland be her salvation?

[Tyyr]

Public order offenses?

Because if it was public nudity I say let her.

[Mark]

My my......lets get her a ticket to the states, where she can start violating an entirly new set of laws.


And she is a bit on the hot side. I'd like to buy her a Mai Tai on the islands

[Mikey]

Yeah, I'd say a little drunk and disorderly on her part might be a bit of a public service.

Anyhoo, getting back to the minutia...

[DBO's] cannot be issued to anyone with mental health problems or alcoholics.

Really? So only the non-alcoholics with drinking problems can get one?

[Tyyr]

You can't issue one to an alcoholic? Aren't those the people who'd need one the most?

[Tsukiyumi]

Public order offenses?

Because if it was public nudity I say let her.

Funny. That was the first thing I thought of.

[Lt. Staplic]

It's probably because it can cause a lot of harm to just cut off an alcoholic from alcohol. If you have an alcoholic in your court there's no reason to give them one of these bans, better to get them to a rehab clinic where they can get sober with trained help there.

[Sionnach Glic]

AFAIK, an alcoholic can be ordered to take part in courses to help deal with it.

[Mikey]

Public order offenses?

Because if it was public nudity I say let her.

Funny. That was the first thing I thought of.

Hold on, let me just go find my surprised face...

It's probably because it can cause a lot of harm to just cut off an alcoholic from alcohol. If you have an alcoholic in your court there's no reason to give them one of these bans, better to get them to a rehab clinic where they can get sober with trained help there.

My point was that if someone isn't an alcoholic, there's very little chance of them being a repeat offender enough to merit one of these orders. I am no longer a habitual drinker (that is, five nights a week... and like I meant it) but I still have, on occasion, gotten drunk enough to have to spend the night on the beach in Sea Girt after quite a spectacle involving... never mind that. The point is, that I'm not a habitual drinker, so I don't do things like that repeatedly - thus not requiring a DBO.

[Mark]

As opposed to alot of my friends who couldn't hold down a job, lost they're family, and were reduced to begging for change on a street corner to put together enough money for a bottle just to kill the pain and stop the shakes COULD possibly benefit from such an order. But then, a determined alcoholic WILL find a way to ingest alcohol. My friend Greg once drank a bottle of aftershave (skin bracer by mennon) straight up just to feel better.

[Reliant121]

As far as I know, Anti-Social Behavior Orders haven't really done much most of the time. Vicars wives have been awarded them, even a bloody dog has one. Admittedly, this is the first with real noticeable limitations that I've ever seen.

[Tsukiyumi]

...My friend Greg once drank a bottle of aftershave (skin bracer by mennon) straight up just to feel better.

[Mark]

You should have smelled his breath after. Dear god that was horrible.