The orders can be in place for a maximum of two years and must be reviewed by the courts after 12 months, with orders issued to under-18s to be reviewed more regularly. The courts can also call for a range of activities to take place such as educational courses, sports club referrals, relationship counselling, anger management, mentoring and drug rehabilitation under the orders. Breaching the order will be a criminal offence, punishable by a maximum prison sentence of two years if convicted. It comes after a number of knife attacks including killings in Southend and south Essex. Luke Bellfield, 18, from Rayleigh was murdered in a knife attack near the Peterboat in Old Leigh on February 25.
Patrol - officers in Chalkwell Park and some of the exclusion zone PARENTS should check their child’s bags “and pat them down” before they go out in the fight against gang culture and crime, campaigners say. The calls for action come after Essex Police revealed 15 teenagers from two gangs - the Leigh Lot and the O Block - were linked to drug dealing, violence and anti-social behaviour. The gangs have now been banned from entering parts of Southend, Rayleigh and Leigh. Police are also probing the gangs’ potential links to the murder of Lee Chapman in Southend in March 2020, the murder of Luke Bellfield in Leigh in February this year, as well as a disturbance in Southend in August 2020 where a man died and another suffered life-changing injuries.
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