A 12-YEAR-OLD has become the youngest child in Oxford to get an Asbo – but you aren’t allowed to know who the troublemaker is.

The boy from Blackbird Leys was behind a string of incidents of foul and abusive language, threats of violence, and other undefined “criminal activity”.

The Oxford Mail is banned from naming him by a court order requested by his solicitor and not opposed by Oxford City Council.

Magistrates Elizabeth Harrison and Dennis Young passed the anonymity order despite guidance from the Home Office issued to local authorities in 2005.

Last night Bob Timbs, the city councillor responsible for crime and community safety, said: “We want to protect the child.”

Under the Antisocial Behaviour Order, which was made at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on August 31, the boy is banned from any public place between 8pm and 7am unless with a parent, teacher or youth offending officer, for three years.

The boy is banned from threatening or swearing at members of the public and is not allowed to be anywhere in the Kassam Stadium or Bowlplex area of Blackbird Leys.

At the age of 11, the child was given an interim Asbo. Before that, he was given an Acceptable Behaviour Contract in 2010.

When the Oxford Mail asked for the list of the crimes which led to the Asbo, the city council refused.

Mr Timbs said the child’s anonymity would not make it impossible to enforce the order, but admitted it was “difficult to say” how the public would be able to recognise the boy and report it if he was breaching the order.

He added: “The Pcsos will be looking out for him. They will know him.”

Defending the decision to give the boy an Asbo, Mr Timbs said: “It’s not a massive overreaction. This boy has a history of bad behaviour and his family has actually supported him going to court.

“If kids on the streets are committing these crimes they will be tried for these crimes. It’s a warning to them if they misbehave.”

He added: “He’s got a history of really terrible behaviour.”

Javed Jamil, of Premier Supermarket in Blackbird Leys, fitted a ‘Mosquito’ device in 2010 to combat antisocial behaviour by youths. It emits a high-pitched buzzing noise that is uncomfortable for under-25s He welcomed the Asbo, but said the boy’s name should be revealed.

“If you see people with an Asbo and you know their name and you have seen them in the paper, then it’s a good idea,” Mr Jamil said.

Chairman of the Blackbird Leys Parish Council Gordon Roper said: “I think it’s the right action to give an Asbo. Then he knows he’s got to behave.”