‘One of worst cases of anti-social behaviour’
MAN BANNED FROM CITY CENTRE FOR ABUSING RESTAURANT STAFF
A SERIAL nuisance who tormented restaurant staff at San Carlo, Rosso and Cicchetti with lewd and aggressive behaviour has been banned from the city centre.
A judge hit Stanley Freeman, 58, with the order after a concerted campaign that the council branded ‘one of the worst cases of anti-social behaviour from a single person we’ve ever seen.’
Freeman has been targeting workers at a string of restaurants, including several celebrity establishments, for six years.
He was regularly aggressive at eateries in the Corn Exchange and King Street and in March this year Freeman targeted Rio Ferdinand’s Italian restaurant Rosso, in Spring Gardens, and threatened to shoot and kill employees.
One woman working at the restaurant was extremely anxious and fearful of him.
Greater Manchester Police received numerous reports of Freeman behaving aggressively in Salvi’s deli, Cabana and Banyan, all in the Corn Exchange.
He also terrorised staff at San Carlo, on King Street, as well as designer store Burberry on New Cathedral Street.
In each case Freeman was aggressive, used foul language and made lewd comments to female workers. He also shouted homophobic abuse. Back in 2012 Freeman was handed a suspended prison sentence for harassment after a vendetta against San Carlo and Cicchetti – in a row over a sausage.
The M.E.N. also reported in 2014 that Freeman was found guilty of sexual assault after he fondled a woman in Band on the Wall. He was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison.
Freeman, of Waterton Lane, Mossley, Tameside, appeared at Manchester Civil Justice Centre and was issued a 12-month anti-social behaviour injunction. The ban stops him from entering anywhere in Manchester within the inner-ring road.
Manchester councillor Nigel Murphy, executive member for neighbourhoods, said: “This is one of the worst cases of anti-social behaviour from a single person we’ve ever seen – the intensity and frequency of the incidents is deeply troubling.”