A teenage gang member who was carrying a metal bar when he was arrested for intimidating Asian pupils outside his former school has been banned from his own neighbourhood.

The incident at Oakbank School, Keighley, earlier this year was one of 16 run-ins with the police in the past six months outlined to Bradford magistrates today in an Asbo hearing.

The court heard how 14-year-old Kane Webster, who was sometimes the gang’s ringleader, was involved in intimidation against residents and businesses in the Ingrow and Keighley area.

Trouble-making also happened outside Haworth Community Centre and Oakworth’s Co-op and Holden Park.

Magistrates heard how Webster had been part of a gang that threw snowballs with stones at people, resulting in one man being assaulted, and he was present when a gang chased two youths in Bingley town centre. It ended with one of the youths being punched to the ground for his phone and threatened with being stabbed.

He was also ringleader of a gang drinking 25 cans of lager in Oakworth’s Holden Park, was abusive to a police community support officer and was one of 40 boys and girls aged ten to 20 who caused a disturbance in the Bromhill area of Knowle Park close to Upper Hird Street, where he lives.

Webster, who has told police he regularly smokes cannabis, is also under investigation for harassing a 13-year-old boy on a social networking site, magistrates were told.

Richard Winter, who was prosecuting on behalf of West Yorkshire Police and Bradford Council, said the interim Asbo order was needed to give “immediate protection” to particularly the people of Ingrow and to put a stop to their “harassment, victimisation and distress”.

The interim Asbo order granted by magistrates will last until August 24.

In the meantime he is banned from Ingrow, Knowle Park except his own house, Oakbank and other surrounding streets between Halifax Road and Pakworth Road including Queen’s Road – apart from his grandmother’s house where he is allowed to visit, avoiding the exclusion area.

There were also nine names read out of people, aged from 15 to 20, who he has to stay away from.

One of the names was that of 15-year-old Mark Wood who, in his absence, was also made the subject of an interim Asbo because of matters which Mr Winter told magistrates were “entirely connected with Webster’s case”.

The teenager is “at large” from First Avenue Community Home in Bradford and there is a warrant for his arrest.

The interim Asbo can not take effect until it is served to him and explained. He was also banned from the same area as Webster but further north to include the Lund Park and Holy Croft areas.