‘The little dictator’: Nickname of baby-faced tearaway, 14, who was sentenced to spend Christmas behind bars after throwing milkshakes on Burger King staff and threatening pensioners

• Pint-sized Kenton Knight, 14, from Swindon, was jailed for two months this week 
• He repeatedly flouted local banning orders and terrorised Burger King workers
• Kenton will spend Christmas behind bars leaving locals relieved in his absence  

Pint-sized terror Kenton Knight, 14, was jailed for two months this week after repeatedly ignoring orders banning his from areas within Swindon

A baby-faced tearaway dubbed ‘the little dictator’ threw milkshakes over Burger King staff and threatened pensioners with a gang of fellow louts before being jailed for Christmas.

Pint-sized terror Kenton Knight, 14, was jailed for two months this week after repeatedly ignoring orders banning his from areas within Swindon.

Angry locals reported the thug to police after he made their lives a misery as the leader of his band of yobs who terrified staff at a local Burger King and Subway restaurants. 

Staff admitted they were too scared to go into work as the hooligans threw drinks at them and flipped tables and chairs – with Kenton even following workers home  during his ‘prolific and relentless’ reign of terror. 

‘In the evening they would come and always target the staff,’ a traumatised Burger King employee told The Sun.  

‘They would buy food and throw it at us – usually fries and milkshakes. We had to call police again and again and again.

‘They would follow staff around the restaurant and if they went outside to clear up, swearing and being abusive. Sometimes they would even follow when people went to go home.

Angry locals reported the thug (pictured on his Snapchat app) to police after he made their lives a misery as the leader of his band of yobs who terrified staff at a local Burger King and Subway restaurants

‘He (Kenton) was in charge, they all followed him. It has been much quieter since he was taken off the street.’   

Beleaguered resident Barbara Clark, 67, said: ‘They threw stones, boxes, all sorts at people just passing by. I was sworn at and called an ‘old b****’.

‘They jump in people’s back gardens and smoke cannabis, pinch things from the gardens.

‘I don’t leave my house after 5pm now unless I absolutely have to, it’s really sad.’

Rachel Chapman, 47, added: ‘I called him ‘the little dictator’ because even though there was older lads you could tell they were trying to impress him and he was directing them. If you saw him there you knew there could be trouble.’

Knight was hit with a court-ordered ban on going to Burger King, the two shopping precincts and a community hub last month unless he had an adult with him.

But the lout ignored the order within weeks and was hauled before Swindon Magistrates Court on Monday.

The court ruled that Knight could be publicly named, despite being under 18.    

Knight’s mother had pleaded with a judge to give her son a hug before he was taken into custody following sentencing earlier this week.

She said: ‘So he’s going to be away for Christmas. He’s only a boy.’

Staff at Burger King (pictured) admitted they were too scared to go into work as the hooligans threw drinks at them and flipped tables and chairs – with Kenton even following workers home during his ‘prolific and relentless’ reign of terror

PCSO Philip Day of Wiltshire Police said: ‘Knight’s prolific and relentless behaviour in our communities for a significant amount of time has caused alarm and distress to many victims, young and old.

‘The injunction served on Knight in October provided clear boundaries that he has clearly chosen to ignore, and as such he has now received today’s sentence.

‘We hope that Knight’s time in detention will go some way in changing his offending behaviour when he returns back into the community.’

PCSO Philip Day of Wiltshire Police said: ‘Knight’s prolific and relentless behaviour in our communities for a significant amount of time has caused alarm and distress to many victims, young and old.

‘The injunction served on Knight in October provided clear boundaries that he has clearly chosen to ignore, and as such he has now received today’s sentence.

‘We hope that Knight’s time in detention will go some way in changing his offending behaviour when he returns back into the community.’

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