A teenager has been spared jail despite breaching his antisocial behaviour order for the fifth time.

Byron Haines, 19, of Goldfinch Close, Greater Leys, was issed with a two-year Asbo in October 2007, which banned him from entering Blackbird Leys.

However Haines continued to offend, breaching the terms by entering the estate, meeting with friends he was banned from seeing and beating his heavily pregnant girlfriend.

On Friday, Haines appeared at Reading Crown Court after breaching the Asbo again by using violent and threatening behaviour.

Charles Ward-Jackson, prosecuting, said the young father had admitted the latest breach following an altercation in Between Towns Road, Cowley, on May 14 last year.

He said Haines and a friend accosted their victim and Haines behaved threateningly. A struggle ensued which was caught on CCTV, and it was said that during the melee the attackers set a Staffordshire bull terrier on the victim.

Haines was also seen on CCTV wielding the seat from his bicycle as a weapon, before cycling off leaving his victim with scratches and bruising.

He was arrested a fortnight later after he was recognised by police examining the footage.

Haines was given the Asbo after 17 convictions in three years and 12 arrests in 18 months.

The Asbo banned him from visiting the centre of Blackbird Leys, associating with a number of friends, carrying a knife and using threats or violence towards other people.

In January last year he breached the order by beating his heavily pregnant girlfriend.

He received a community order, but four months later he was caught with his friends and given 56 days in a young offenders institute.

In June last year he committed a double breach by entering Blackbird Leys and meeting associates he was banned from seeing.

He served four months in a young offenders' institution.

Colin McCarraher, defending, said Haines had a young child who was in intensive care at the John Radcliffe Hospital and was due to come out in a matter of weeks.

He asked the judge to defer sentence until September, and added: “For the first time in his (Haines’) life he has to behave like an adult and not a teenager. This family unit is the one opportunity he has of getting anywhere.”

Haines was sentenced by Deputy Circuit Judge Charles Tilling to six months in a young offenders’ institution, suspended for a year.

He added a supervision order of a year, telling the defendant he would be “under close scrutiny”.

Passing sentence, he said: “You are only 19 years old, yet you have accumulated a list of offences that would do credit to a man double your age.

“This was a serious breach of the order and in the past your record shows you have no regards to the orders of the court.”

He warned that sentences would increase once Haines ceased to be a young offender.

“When you turn 21, you had better behave yourself.”