A teenage tearaway has been banned from the Bradford estate where he lives and can now only get to his home along a "Berlin-style" corridor.

Andrew McCafferty - whose mother and younger brother died in a house fire a year ago - was placed under an anti-social behaviour order until the beginning of June by District Judge David Thomas at the city's magistrates' court.

McCafferty, 19, must stay away from the Holme Wood estate except when going to and from the house in Broadstone Way, where he lives with his father John.

And he can only do that by an approved route via Tyersal Lane. He must also not associate with four friends who live in the area.

Accepting the ban but opposing the need for an approved route, solicitor John Kelly said it reminded him of West Berlin in the 1960s when the only way in and out was via a narrow corridor.

"It is unnecessarily draconian," he said. But District Judge Thomas said some of McCafferty's crimes had been on the streets of the estate.

"The people of Holme Wood have the right to go to and from without anti-social behaviour, breaking into cars and threats in the street," he said. Michelle Popely, a tenancy enforcement officer with East Bradford Community Housing Trust, told the court how one woman on the estate had been intimidated by McCafferty when she contacted the police after her car was broken into.

"We do have the fear that people are scared up there," she said. "There is great fear of intimidation."

McCafferty, who agreed he had a bad record, said he was now working as a scrap dealer. He said he had relatives on the estate and visited them two or three times a week. "I need to see my family," he said.

A hearing is scheduled before Bingley magistrates on June 7, when Bradford Council will try to have the order made permanent.

Maxine Loftus, head of operations for East Bradford Community Housing Trust, said: "This is good news for the many residents who have had to suffer as a result of the actions of this youth and his group."

McCafferty's mother, Denise Clough, 38, and his brother Mark, six, died in a suspicious blaze at the family's council house in Broadstone Way, in the early hours of April 8 last year.

McCafferty was later charged with stealing a video recorder from the property the night before the fire.