"Superned" turns back on crime
10 Mar 05
Teenager who inspired new antisocial behaviour laws has found a job and is going straight, court told
"Superned" Edmond Eccles, the Alva youth who inspired Jack McConnell's antisocial behaviour laws, has turned his back on crime, the town's sheriff court was told yesterday.
Fifteen months ago, Eccles, now 17, was banned by bail order from most of central Scotland after leading a teenage gang which terrorised shopkeepers and residents in Alva. Yesterday, appearing for sentence on a charge of breach of the peace in November 2003, he heard solicitor Grant Markie tell Sheriff Wyllie Robertson that his client now had a job earning £80 a week and his fiancee was due to give birth to her first child in May.
Sheriff Robertson fined Eccles £300 for the offence, committed when Eccles screamed obscenities at a diner in a McDonalds restaurant.
Eccles, now living in Aberdeen, said yesterday: "I've turned my back on all the criminal stuff."