Wednesday, December 31, 2025
The man pictured is Stephen Williams and he’s banned from Lancaster city centre for the next two years.
Williams, 41, was given a Community Behaviour Order (CBO) by a court yesterday (30th December) after he committed four assaults in the city over the last few days.
On Saturday evening, Williams punched a man in his 20s following a verbal altercation outside the Greens pub, North Road. The man suffered a black eye and a scratch on his face.
Then on Monday morning, he shouted abuse at a woman working in Greggs, on Cheapside, before re-entering the store and pushing her.
Later that day when a police officer and a police community support officer saw Wiliams in Market Street, they went to arrest him for the assault in Greggs.
When the officer took hold of Williams, he dragged her against a shop window and caused her to fall over. He then lunged towards the PCSO and pushed him in the chest.
Williams was then arrested by the officer.
At Preston Magistrates Court yesterday, Williams, of Heysham Road, Heysham, pleaded guilty to two offences of assault by beating of an emergency worker and two offences of assault by beating.
He was jailed for 24 weeks, ordered to pay a surcharge of £154 and given the two-year Community Behaviour Order which bans him from Lancaster city centre.