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Graffiti vandal banned from bus top decks

5:23pm Friday 21st September 2007

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A PERSISTENT vandal has been slapped with an Asbo banning him from the top deck of public transport buses.

The order, made by Greenwich magistrates on 17-year-old Billy Murrell, is the first one by Transport for London (TfL) for graffiti.

Murrell, from Plumstead, has a history of convictions for criminal damage on public transport.

These include damaging buses and other public property using marker pens and vandalising a Tube carriage.

Jeroen Weimar, who heads TfL's transport policing and enforcement directive, said: "Murrell's vandalism has affected many other bus and train users.

"This Asbo demonstrates the role that TfL can play in resolving crime and disorder problems in our community.

"TfL will only use its powers in relation to Asbos when it is necessary to do so, but this shows that we are prepared to take action to protect public transport for our passengers."

The Asbo is valid for three years.

CONDITIONS OF THE ORDER

The Asbo bars him from:

  • Entering any depot, siding or other part of London Underground property or railway property or any other transport company's property which is not open to the public throughout England and Wales.
  • Carrying unset paint in any form of container, permanent marker pens, shoe dye or permanent ink, paint stripper, a grinding stone, glass cutting equipment or glass etching solution or paste anywhere mentioned above and any public place in England and Wales.
  • Aiding, abetting, counselling or encouraging anyone who was attempting or committing any form of unlawful damage towards any property not belonging to or being under the direct authorised control of the defendant throughout England and Wales.
  • Travelling on the top deck of any public transport bus within England and Wales.

If he breaches the order he could be sentenced to a two-year detention and training order, with 12 months to be served in custody and 12 months to be served in the community.

When he turns 18 any breach could carry a five-year jail sentence.

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A.Solution, says...
7:44pm Fri 21 Sep 07

Dress the big eared ugly freak up in pink tights and a tu-tu and make him clean up bus graffiti in the rush hour with a bottle of bleach and a toothbrush , then see if he repeat offends.

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chloe, abbeywood says...
4:51pm Sat 22 Sep 07

this is dispikable behavya billy yoO shud thiink about wht yoO have dun TUT TUT

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Confunded, The back of a bus. says...
5:26pm Sat 22 Sep 07

Chloe,
If Billy is as retarded as you, I doubt this ASBO will stop him re-offending.

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Dom, says...
7:55pm Sat 22 Sep 07

I dont blame him, I'd want to lash at something if I was as ugly as him. Put the mongrel down!

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Robert, Petts Wood says...
8:03pm Sat 22 Sep 07

It was an accident - he didn't mean to cause that damage, it's just that he's so butt ugly that he'd shatter an iceberg just by looking at it. Plastic surgery all round!

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Arkanai, says...
11:45am Sun 23 Sep 07

Cant they just kick him to death live on tv or something?

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temoe one, Kent says...
1:58pm Sun 23 Sep 07

what people dont understand is that graffiti can be as addictive as heroin, and maybe harder to kick because it doesnt directly damage writers. vandals shouldnt be punished, they should be convinced to stop

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C Learasil, Kent says...
8:28pm Sun 23 Sep 07

Hmm.....I have an idea how to 'convince' him to stop. Sit on him and burst his pimples one by one until he promises not to be a naughty boy again.

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P. Smythe-muir, says...
9:29pm Sun 23 Sep 07

Hoooray hooorah .
Peg him by the jugs from a washing line.
Tally-ho there

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Amused, Bexley says...
8:55am Mon 24 Sep 07

I agree with comment no. 1, public humiliation should sort him out, and plenty of others like him.

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A Traveller, London says...
5:06pm Tue 25 Sep 07

He should have been banned from public transport completely -at least stop him from having an Oystercard and make him pay full fare.

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L, Thamesmead says...
12:10pm Wed 26 Sep 07

temoe one don't talk rubbish!! That is the wettest thing I've ever heard!!

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Noddy, Online says...
1:49pm Thu 27 Sep 07

Asbo banning him from the top deck of public transport buses.

Like he could get upstairs with those ears anyway.
Flog the dim witted thug.

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danny, welling says...
10:49am Fri 28 Sep 07

billy didnt u think about what u was doin i know boimbing is sometimes good but nopt everywhere fix up wun

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Ignorant prat, says...
5:12pm Mon 1 Oct 07

Yeah burn him at the stake, kill all the chavs and lowlifes that make my journey to work even more miserable than it already is. Give me some way to vent my anger (the anger that stems from sexual inadequacy, a loveless marriage and a dead end job in the civil service). Please, kill them all, so I can live in a clean and pure world with no crime at all. Because all crime comes from graffiti.


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mark waters, Abbeywood says...
6:33pm Wed 3 Oct 07

HI WE NO THIS BOY AND HE IS A VIRGIN =] HAHA HIS JOB USED TO BE CLEANIN GRAFFIE :| THE FISH GRAFFITIS EVERYDAY HE TOLD ME THAT HE HAD TO CLEAN HIS OWN NAME OFF ONE DAY EVERYONE REMEMBER RAIDER IS A WASTEMAN AND WILL ALWAYS BE ONE. THA FAT SPOTTY CUNTTTTTTTTTTTTT

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weloveraider, stc says...
12:59pm Mon 3 Dec 07

no wun will ever stop bill from puttin up lool es addicted to it hahahah if u gnahh buff it off make sure all da rip deck wuns stayy love ya billy u fukin legend x x x x

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