EFFORTS are to be made to prevent a teenage nuisance from hanging around a town's bus station.

The aim is to bar 19-year-old Lee Peacock from visiting the station, in Consett, County Durham, after he admitted taking part in an assault there one evening last September.

Durham Crown Court heard that Peacock and a 17-year-old co-accused were seen on closed circuit TV footage, fleeing the station with a third youth after the incident.

The 17-year-old previously admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon, a lock knife.

Peacock appeared at Durham Crown Court yesterday and admitted a charge of common assault arising from the same incident.

Sentence was adjourned, pending preparation of probation reports on Peacock.

Judge Beatrice Bolton bailed Peacock, of Constance Street, Consett, to return for sentence with the co-accused on June 6, on condition that he keeps out of the bus station.

She said: "I'm concerned about the incident taking place in the bus station."

David Callan, prosecuting, said: "The Crown takes the view that there are too many incidents like this in Consett and Stanley bus stations.

"He makes a nuisance of himself there and the Crown would invite the sentencing judge to consider making an anti-social behaviour order to address this."

Judge Bolton said: "An application to do so would need to be properly drafted, but I can't see why such an order can't be applied for."