“I know the twins well and they are decent lads. I'm sure everybody blaming their mum etc don't know what their own kids are up to when they go out. I think people need to think about what they say before they say it. I can't imagine how hard it must be for a mother to read that they deserve to be hanged. I've known the lads for a long time and I know people who do a lot worse but most of you can't see past what you read in the papers. It isn't the mother because i know here and she is a lovely caring WORKING parent who has given these lads a lot of opportunities in life. I don't blame her at all. I blame the fact that the best thing to do in Biddulph for a teenager is to hang out and get into trouble. I'm at uni now in manchester and I've never been in trouble with the police. But I understand how hard it is for children and teens to find things to do because I was there. I find it ridiculous that grown adults are saying stupid ignorant things and even worse are struggling to spell there messages. Just think for once instead of shouting the odds. I'm guessing a lot of people commenting are from the generation above me. Things have changed and you have to accept that. Maybe if everybodies response changed from 'little scum bags' to 'wow we need to help these kids so they can lead a better life' we wouldn't have to issue out ASBOs in the first place!”

“the mother of these boys is not on benefits and works three twelve hour nights and sometimes more to pay for her children and her house that is also not rent free either but mortgaged, not everything in life is as black and white as it seems, could all you people who as a teenager has never spit, swore, drunk alcohol, threw stones or got into a fight please raise your hands, no i thought not!!!”

“ASBOs are not aimed at punishement for an individual, they are used ot protect a communit from further acts of antisocial behaviour. The punishment for breaching an Order (upto 5 years imprisonment) can be stiffer than any penalty the courts may apply if the offender was charged with a criminal offence. This is why they soon realise ASBOs aren't badges of honour. Without ASBOs communities would continue to suffer the effects of antisocial behaviour caused by a small minority, as I'm sure the residents in this story will agree now they finally have some respite.”

“Ill hav yuu lot know i use too look after These two boys and they arnt what everyones makin them ot too be there mum is a good mum with a full time job and spends all her spare with her CHILDREN takin them fishin & on family holidays most of yuu probly dont hav children and hav many off yuu actally bin too biddulph theres nothin for teenages of there age too do apart from doss on the streets soo shut ya Bluddy Mouths and remember use lot are adults talkin about children. yur the ones tht wont a good slappin and they arnt ugly are use lot tht sad yuu hav too call children ugly get a grip ,,”

“I've been to school with the two lads all my life, and deep down their nice lads, its just when they get on the streets with their mates when it all goes wrong. Also all you people blaming their parent, well you dont have a clue really considering they have a younger brother who has never been in any kind of bother. so before you start accusing, get the facts :)”

“Ime with EB on this, ime not a do-gooder and dont belong to the human rights brigade, I believe in good old fashioned retribution,,a smack for a smack, you kick me ,,i kick back,, only harder,, it instills disciplin,,beats asbos too.”

“andy, stoke- maybe if we keep on kicking this family when they are down we could lower their self esteem to the point that perhaps they will all go and hang themselves? do everyone a favour!”

“Couldn't agree more E.B. Instead of handing out useless ASBOs why not give them Community Service so that they have to carry out remedial work in the very community that they have abused? Will they look big in front of all their friends then? Of course not.
Lets face it, to scumbags like these two an ASBO is a badge of honour, it's official confirmation that you are a gangster! In their social circles (or should that be anti-social circles) if you haven't got an ASBO then you are a nobody.
Being made to carry out community service in front of all your mates would be an embarrasment that these "gangsters" would hate because deep down they are basically cowards.”

“Michael,We have families like these who blight every area of our city,What is the betting that everyone of them is on the benefit system.Instead of just giving these low lives money, and other benefits,Why do we not make them work for their money,Most of these people have never done a days work in their lives,Perhaps if they had to do a few days work for their benefits they would not have so much time to cause trouble for the other residents.
You never know,one or two might actually enjoy going out to work instead of lying in their pits till lunchtime.”

“its got nothing to do with u lot you dont know them so you cant judge them”