THE teenage victim of a Newport yob who was locked up after he breached an interim ASBO says he is pleased with the sentence.

City magistrates locked up Marcus Ball for three months after he breached an interim anti-social behaviour order within days of its imposition.

Ball, 19, of Broadmead Park, admitted throwing a missile, said in court to be a Liquorice Allsort, at 18-year-old Mark Quick. Magistrates heard the sweet cut Mr Quick's eyelid.

After the case, Mr Quick said the sentence proved the anti-social behaviour order process worked.

"I think ASBOs are a good idea because it had only been on a couple of days and now he's gone down for three months," he said.

"I'm pleased with the sentence: at the end of the day there are a lot of yobs and they have got to be stopped.

"This is a good way of getting people like this off the streets." Mr Quick said he was not sure what the missile thrown at him was, but told the Argus he thought it was more likely to have been a stone than a sweet.

"He was throwing things at me and something cut my left eye: it was quite a nasty little graze," he said.

When the full ASBO was made earlier this year, the court heard Ball's "unenviable record" included throwing stones and eggs, threatening and assaulting residents.

Mr Quick, of Fairoak Avenue, Maindee, was visiting his girlfriend, 27-year-old Anita Miller, at her home in Broadmead Park, Lliswerry, when the incident happened.

Speaking after the case, the maintenance worker at Llanwern steelworks, said he feared for the safety of his girlfriend's children, aged eight, five and three, when the altercation with Ball began. The court was told Ball said to Mr Quick: "There are a lot of people on this estate I want to kill...and you are one of them."