Stiff penalty: Two PCSOs ban eight-year-old boy from playing football outside house after he 'kicked too loudly'

An eight-year-old schoolboy was banned from playing football outside his home by two PCSOs who claimed he kicked 'too loudly.'


Bertie Longworth, was quizzed by the officers who took his full name and date of birth, then told his mother not to allow him to play with the ball at the front of their house in Kearsley, near Bolton, Greater Manchester.

His mother, beauty therapist Janine Longworth, was stunned when the pair arrived following an 'anonymous noise complaint' as Bertie kicked the ball against their garden wall.


The 39-year-old mother-of-two, said: 'It’s just ridiculous that police should come round over an eight-year-old playing football when there must be more serious things going on.      Read Here