A youth who received one of York's first antisocial behaviour orders may spend the rest of his life in psychiatric hospital after a judge heard about his mental state.
Recorder Jonathan Gibson ordered that paranoid schizophrenic Gary Dunn, 17, formerly of Kingsway North, Clifton, be confined indefinitely in a secure mental health unit to protect the public.
He acted after hearing how Dunn, who admitted grievous bodily harm and affray, and two friends, had terrorised and seriously injured a 16-year-old boy in a "sustained attack" that began in the victim's home at night and finished with the trio kicking him as he lay in the street.
The judge quoted Dunn's repeated breaches of the antisocial behaviour order and his convictions for public order offences and assaulting police as reasons for making the hospital order.
Updated: 11:05 Friday, May 04, 2001
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