Police have named and shamed a teenage yob who was given a five-year Anti-Social Behaviour Order because of his behaviour on a Bradford estate.

Posters carrying a photograph of Benjamin Brown have been put up in shops and leaflets posted to hundreds of homes in Allerton.

District Judge David Thomas granted the Asbo at Bradford Magistrates' Court last month. The application was made by police and the Bradford West City Community Housing Trust after residents' complaints. It was unopposed by Brown's solicitor.

Brown, 17, of Allerton Grange Drive, was accused of threatening and abusive behaviour, damaging property, drunkenness and being rowdy and intimidating.

The terms of the Asbo prevent Brown trying to hide his face under a hood or hat and stepping into an exclusion zone except for a designated route to his home.

Other measures stop him lighting fires, interfering with vehicles, throwing stones, drinking alcohol in public, setting off fireworks, entering gardens or allotments without permission and having contact with four named people.

The 600 posters and leaflets also include a map of the exclusion zone, indicating his address. It explains the Asbo was issued because he acted in an anti-social manner likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, and committed theft from a motor vehicle; taking without consent; shoplifting and robbery.

It lists 13 things he is banned from doing and says he risks arrest and custody if he breaks the terms of the Asbo.

The poster urges anyone who sees him breaking the order to call police on 0845 6060606. It adds: "If others behave in a threatening, alarming, or distressing way, we should work together to stop them and make a safer neighbourhood for yourselves and your children."

The posters have been used in Asbo cases for about 18 months with seven or eight in Bradford North. Bradford South and Keighley have also used them.

Paul Hepworth, community inspector for Bradford North Police, said Brown had been a prolific offender. He said: "People were telling us he was committing anti-social behaviour and crime and wanted something doing.

"He has been terrorising the neighbourhood and because of that it is important that neighbours know who he is. The public reaction to us delivering the leaflets has been fantastic and they say the action is long overdue."

Insp Hepworth said there had been no anti-social behaviour on the estate since the order had been put in place. But Brown's mother claimed police had victimised him and the family.

Fish shop worker Deborah Brown, 39, who has two other children aged 19 and ten, said: "I want these posters removing. Ben has not been in trouble for nearly 12 months. He has a job with a removal firm, stays in at night with me or his girlfriend and is trying to put the past behind him.

"People have been calling us names and spitting at us in the street since these posters went up and my ten-year-old son has been bullied at school."

But Insp Hepworth said: "It's important people know where he comes from. And parents have a responsibility to do what they can to prevent their children committing offences."

Resident Dave Wood, 65, of Allerton Grange Drive, welcomed the use of the posters.

He said: "The police have done a marvellous job and I and my neighbours are happy these posters are being handed out. It clearly works. In the last month it has been like a graveyard here. Before that people were on corners shouting, fighting and breaking bottles."