A 14-YEAR-OLD threatened to kill his neighbour as part of a campaign of violence and intimidation he waged in East Oxford.

Sandeep Kumar, of Saunders Road, also shot a Police Community Support Officer with a ball-bearing gun and threw eggs at the homes of two women living near his home.

Neighbours said he inflicted much suffering on them and one had considered moving away.

Kumar was given an 18-month youth rehabilitation order and ordered to wear an electronic tag for three months at Oxford Magistrates’ Court after breaching an Asbo he was given in December.

Kumar, who has a string of arrests for violence and theft, is also not allowed out of his home between 7pm and 7am.

Helen Waite, prosecuting, said the teenager showed a “lack of respect for people in authority”.

She said: “The behaviour of Sandeep has had a significant impact on the lives of people living near him.”

In a statement read out to the court, one neighbour said: “I feel so upset and distressed.

“I feel unable to cope with the boy’s behaviour.

“I feel this to such an extent that I feel like moving house.”

The man whom Kumar threatened to kill said: “I have had constant trouble from Sandeep.

“It just seems to keep going on and it is making my life a misery.

“I don’t believe he should be allowed to with such antisocial behaviour. He has no regard for his neighbours or the law.”

Another neighbour added: “I felt I was being targeted in an unacceptable way “I have never done anything to offend that family.

“It is really affecting the quality of my life.

“I can no longer have friends around because they also get into difficulties with him.”

Nawaz Khan, defending, told the magistrates that Sandeep had had a “troubled” childhood.

He said: “From the outset it is important to say that Sandeep accepts his guilt and shows remorse for what he did.

“He is a young man who has considerable communication difficulties, and also had problems at school.

“Something has clearly gone very wrong with this man.

“In the past he has been in homes and was sent to live with his aunt in Birmingham, which went wrong.”

Kumar was punished for four incidents committed after November 30 – two breaches of his Asbo and two public order offences. His Asbo remains in place.

Magistrates lifted a ban on the Oxford Mail publishing Kumar’s picture because of the public interest. Judge Julian Hall then suspended that ruling until Friday after Mr Khan made an appeal to Oxford Crown Court.