A teenage tearaway has pledged to get his life back on the straight and narrow after becoming the first person in Didcot to be slapped with an Antisocial Behaviour Order (Asbo).

James Budziszewski, 17, was handed the Asbo by police after terrorising shoppers in the Orchard Centre by shouting, swearing and making threats.

Under the terms of the order, drawn up by Didcot magistrates, the unemployed teenager is banned from entering the Orchard Centre for two years.

But since the order was made on Friday Budziszewski said he has realised the error of his ways - and if he does not turn his life round soon, he will end up in jail.

The former Wallingford School pupil, who now lives in Orwell Drive on the Ladygrove estate, said he is ashamed.

He recently breached the terms of an acceptable behaviour contract (ABC) signed in November 2006, asking him to stay away from the shopping centre.

But Budziszewski said this time it is different. He said: "The Asbo has made me realise that I have made some big mistakes.

"But now I'm going to change my life around, get a job, everything like that.

"I want to be on the straight and narrow.

"Sgt Fraser Weller gave me a proper good talking to when I was at the station and I realised I would end up in prison if things didn't stop."

Budziszewski's good behaviour pledge follows similar tales of those who had been given Asbos and turned their lives around.

Last year, one of the first people to be given an Asbo in Oxfordshire said it gave her the wake-up call that stopped her losing her kids and going to jail.

Mother-of-three Nicola Francis, from Sandy Lane, Blackbird Leys, was given a three-year Asbo in 2003, after she and her friends subjected neighbours to months of loud music, parties and intimidation.

In March, the mother of 14-year-old Bicester teenager Nicholas Hendon, of Chalvey Road, apologised on behalf of her son after he became one of the youngest people in Britain to be given an Asbo.

Under his Asbo, Budziszewski may go as far as the new Cineworld multiplex, but if he strays into the shopping area, supermarket, car park and service station, he could be arrested and charged with breach of his Asbo.

Since the order came into force Budziszewski has been looking for jobs in construction and labouring.

He said police, family and friends have all been supportive of his new start.

Neighbourhood specialist officer PC Chris Ball said: "He has been causing us a lot of problems, but hopefully this will be the end of it."

John Cornelius, antisocial behaviour officer for police in South Oxfordshire, said: "Asbos are a last resort. But he has said to me that he is looking to turn his life around. I really hope he sticks to it."