The first person to be named and shamed as an antisocial offender in an Oxford poster campaign has been convicted of attacking and beating a man with garden shears.

Ian Joseph

Ian Joseph, 38, of Chatham Road, Oxford, was issued with an Antisocial Behaviour Order in November last year after sending sexually explicit material and making obscene phone calls to city council staff.

He was also accused of being threatening towards workers in the reception area of Oxford Town Hall.

Photographs and details of the conditions of his Asbo were placed on posters outside the Town Hall, Temple Cowley Pool and city council offices in St Aldate's.

The posters were part of a new policy by the city council and police to tell residents about offenders in their area.

Seven months after Joseph was named and shamed, a jury at Oxford Crown Court found him guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to Kim Lewis, 31, of Abingdon Road, Oxford.

The incident happened in Chatham Road on February 20 between 4.15am and 4.45am.

The court was told that the two men had an altercation in the street in the early hours of the morning and Joseph attacked Mr Lewis.

He was hit with a pair of garden shears and received serious cuts to his arm. Mr Lewis was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and needed surgery for his injuries.

Joseph was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on July 20.

He hit the headlines in December when he was banned from entering Temple Cowley Pools, in Temple Road, after he harassed staff there.

The Asbo was the third granted to the city council to protect staff harassed by residents.

City council spokesman Louisa Dean said she could not comment on the conviction as it was not appropriate, because Joseph was not banned from the street where the attack took place.