A man banned from his Oxford estate can return home after a court revoked his Antisocial Behaviour Order, branding claims against him as "tittle-tattle".

David Reid was banned for life from Blackbird Leys in April and then Greater Leys, where he lived, after police and Oxford City Council secured an Asbo hearing against him.

But Mr Reid, 37, won his appeal and had the Asbo quashed after Oxford Crown Court was told not a single resident on the estate made formal statements about Mr Reid's alleged threatening or antisocial behaviour.

Mr Reid's mother, Lucinda, said: "I'm very happy he's coming home. I don't know what I would do without him.

"Even now when he comes home, he washes the dishes, cleans the house and takes out the garbage for me.

"David is not a troublemaker it is all lies."

Victoria Osler, for Oxford City Council, said evidence was unwritten and unsigned because residents were terrified of Mr Reid, of Green Hill, Greater Leys.

She said: "Many people could not speak because there was a fear of reprisals."

But the court also heard many allegations reported by residents to the council's Crime and Nuisance Action Team (Canact) were made during 2003 when Reid was in prison.

Recorder Harold Persaud said: "The evidence causes me a great deal of trouble.

"The matters which were put before us amount to no more than tittle-tattle."

Maya Sikland, for Mr Reid, told the court: "Housing estates are full of all sorts of rumours.

"For someone to be engaged in something as draconian as an Asbo. one must be confident these antisocial activities did occur."

Oxford police commander Supt Jim Trotman and Peta Donaghy, operations manager for the council's Canact team, said after the case that they would monitor Mr Reid when he was released from prison, where he is currently on remand after being accused of breaching his Asbo.

Ms Donaghy said: "We are very disappointed with this outcome and feel concerned for the safety of the residents of Blackbird Leys and Oxford City and we will do everything we can to assist them.

"We will now look at other alternatives to legally sanction and control his behaviour."

Mr Trotman added: "David Reid is well known to Oxford police. I would hope those with a history of offending will see the error of their ways and be rehabilitated and one hopes he will do so.

"Maybe he's learned his lesson during the period that the Asbo was in force.

"If he has not, I can assure you we will continue to target him and any other offender who makes life a misery for people in Oxford."

Leys Residents' Association chairman Pat Stannard, who lives opposite Lucinda Reid, said: "We never had a problem with him in the six years we've lived opposite, but I cannot speak for the rest of the estate."