A real-life Victor Meldrew has been told to behave or face up to five years in prison.

Victor Causabon-Vincent, 72, has been a persistent pest for the past seven years and has already spent time in jail.

He has incurred the wrath of his neighbours by leaving old cars outside his home in Hillrise Avenue, Sompting.

When he failed to remove them in November last year he was jailed for three months for ignoring enforcement orders.

In 1997, Causabon-Vincent was jailed for eight weeks following a boundary dispute over a neighbour's fence. He has also served ten days behind bars for failing to pay his council tax.

Adur District Council has now been granted an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) against him.

Worthing magistrates granted the order to prevent his continued abusive and threatening behaviour towards council staff and others.

Under the terms of the order Causabon-Vincent is banned from using threatening, abusive or intimidating behaviour likely to cause alarm, distress or harassment to others.

Causabon-Vincent is not the oldest person in England to have had an Asbo imposed on him. That dubious honour went to 87-year-old Alexander Maut from Liverpool in July after he drove his car at neighbours.