A man has been given a Criminal Behaviour Order and fined £7,770 for carrying and dealing scrap metal without a licence. Vale of White Horse District Council prosecuted 28 year old Anthony Joyce of Redbridge Hollow after Thames Valley Police stopped him in October last year whilst he was carrying scrap metal. It’s the first Criminal Behaviour Order the council has given out under recently acquired powers. He was interviewed under caution for carrying the metal without a licence and declined to comment. The council investigated and found that Mr Joyce was a regular customer at a number of local scrap metal dealers - he had sold just under £4,000 of scrap metal to them in less than five months. Whilst this investigation was taking place, the police caught him carrying large amounts of scrap metal twice more, both in Abingdon on 23 and 25 June this year. This all happened after he had been convicted by Oxford Magistrate’s Court for similar offences. Cllr Roger Cox, cabinet member for Environmental Health at the Vale, said: “Mr Joyce has repeatedly shown contempt for the law and the punishment should send a clear message out to anybody looking to deal scrap metal without a licence. We’ll catch you and prosecute you. The scrap metal act exists to help prevent metal theft, which has been in the news a lot in recent years.” Under the Criminal Behaviour Order, Mr Joyce must not: 1. Enter any premises licensed for the receipt of scrap metal. 2. Request scrap metals from any persons. 3. Have possession or control of scrap metal, other than disposed of by way of a waste receptacle provided for that purpose by the principal litter authority. 4. Carry out collections of waste from residential or commercial premises, whether directly, indirectly by himself or by or in consort with others. 5. Cause harassment, alarm or distress to any person by way of intimidation, violence or threat of violence.