UK teenager's trouser ban 'breaches human rights'
An order banning a British teenager from wearing his trousers too low has been dropped because it breached his human rights, a court was told.
Ellis Drummond, 18, faced an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) which included a ban on "wearing trousers so low beneath the waistline that members of the public are able to see his underwear".
The order, proposed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), would also have stopped him from wearing a hooded top with the hood up, following convictions last month for assault, possession of Class B drugs and theft.
But the measures put forward by the CPS were withdrawn after District Judge Nicholas Leigh-Smith told Bedford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday that "some of the requirements proposed struck me as contrary to the Human Rights Act".
Drummond, of Rushden in central England, was instead handed a four-year order prohibiting him from using threatening behaviour, begging or entering the grounds of Bedford College.
He had condemned the original terms of the ban, saying: "It's like they're trying to change the way I dress."
The original ban was aimed at preventing Drummond from exposing his underwear in public.
けっきょく、腰パン禁止は”人権侵害”のおそれありということで、少年は処罰を免れた。
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