A 51-year-old Bicester man has been given a two-year behavioural order after threatening neighbours.

Christopher Schweitzer, of Cartmel, was given the criminal behaviour order at North Oxfordshire Magistrates’ Court on October 19, Thames Valley Police said.

It prevents him from using threatening, abusive, intimidating or sexually explicit words or behaviour to one or more persons in a public place, or behaving in a manner which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to neighbours and residents within Cartmel and Whitelands Way, in Bicester.

The order was imposed on Schweitzer after he pleaded guilty to verbally abusing and threatening a neighbour last October and being aggressive towards a customer at Tesco Petrol Station in Pingle Drive, Bicester, last December.

PC Deborah Clements, Cherwell anti-social behaviour officer, said: “The gaining of this order demonstrates Thames Valley Police’s conviction to deal with individuals who commit antisocial behaviour, in whatever form it takes."