The Grimsby Telegraph has won the right to name a teenager who has been made the subject of Grimsby's first full anti-social behaviour order.

Following a plea from Telegraph deputy editor Nigel Lowther, magistrates at Grimsby Youth Court agreed to lift all reporting restrictions on 15-year-old Kye Green.

The Telegraph's application was vigorously opposed by the teenager's solicitor - but the paper told the court that long-suffering residents had a right to know the order had been made.

Nigel also told magistrates the boy had already been named - and his photograph published - on March 25 and May 6.

He said: "The door can't be shut now that the horse has already bolted. It is too late for an order preventing Green from being identified.

"The public has a right to know that a full anti-social behaviour order has been made on Green."

Presiding magistrate Mike Corry said the Telegraph's application for restrictions to be lifted was being granted because the naming of Green was an "integral part" of the anti-social behaviour order.

He added: "The nature of Kye's offending is persistent, serious and has impacted on a number of people, or his local community in general.

"Alerting others to Kye's behaviour would help prevent further offending by him and an anti-social behaviour order depends on the wider community knowing.

"Restrictions were already lifted in civil proceedings.

"The purpose of the anti-social behaviour order is to protect the public from wholly unacceptable behaviour, so the public has a particular interest in knowing who was responsible.

"In reaching our decision, we have carefully balanced the interests of Kye and his family against those of the wider community who have been seriously affected by his criminal behaviour - and those interests outweigh Kye's interests."

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