ALCOHOLIC Alvin Stephens, who became the first person in the Wycombe area to be jailed for being a public nuisance, faces prison again after breaking an exclusion order for the third time.

Stephens, 38, of Bookerhill Road, High Wycombe, appeared before Wycombe magistrates on Thursday and admitted to breach of an anti-social behaviour order and to being drunk and disorderly towards residents in Mentmore Close, Booker, High Wycombe, on July 5.

The court heard that Stephens was jailed for 12 weeks in April after twice breaching the order banning him from drinking in public in the vicinity of Booker.

At about eight in the evening, he called at the home of neighbour Christopher Green, who was in the lounge with his ten-year-old daughter.

Felicity McWilliam, prosecuting, said Mr Green answered the door to find Stephens standing outside shouting and swearing and staring at him.

Miss McWilliam said Stephens was then involved in an incident in the street in which a man was pinned up against a car. She said Stephens was then arrested.

'Mr Stephens is often in the area asking people for money and frightening and intimidating the residents,' she said.

Cameron Brown, representing him, said Stephens lived with his partner, helping to support four children (not his) of whom two had cerebral palsy, and had stayed out of trouble between February and July.

Mr Brown said Stephens called at Mr Green's house to obtain some petrol to mow a friend's lawn, but when Mr Green answered the door he forgot what he came for.

Mr Brown said: 'Drink is his absolute nemesis. He has never come to grips with it.

'He had received his giro cheque and he had foolishly gone out and bought a number of cans of cider and Special Brew.'

Rejecting an application for bail, the court remanded Stephens in custody while pre-sentence reports are prepared.

He will appear in court again on August 11.