Six more nightmare neighbours and drug dealers could be kicked out of an Oxfrord estate after a gviolent thug was banned from the area for life.

The Blackbird Leys and Greater Leys Neighbourhood Action Team has earmarked bans on six persistent thugs, drug dealers and nightmare neighbours living on the estate.

It comes two weeks after David Reid, 37, of Green Hill, Blackbird Leys, was given an antisocial behaviour order (Asbo) banning him from the area for life, after a court heard he had 26 convictions, dating back over 22 years.

Pc Martyn Wills, of Blackbird Leys police, said: "Antisocial behaviour in any form will not be tolerated in Blackbird Leys and Greater Leys and if people do continue to act in an antisocial way we will work with our partners to get them off the estate.

"It's not only NAT, but the whole community that has worked together in order to get that life-long Asbo. It all starts from community intelligence being passed on."

The NAT has set up a monthly antisocial behaviour meeting, to discuss potential applications for court orders.

Decisions on targets are made by the committee, which includes representatives of Oxford City Council's Crime and Nuisance Action Team (Canact), police, street wardens, the youth offending team, housing associations and neighbourhood youth workers.

Neighbour disputes are usually settled by way of Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABCs), but breaches of these can lead to Asbos being issued.

About 20 adults and youths are currently subject to ABCs, including one tenant who is banned from holding a lift on the 14th floor of Windrush Tower, in Blackbird Leys.

Drug offenders are also on the list of potential Asbo targets.

Any tenant convicted of drug dealing can be evicted from housing association homes and the NAT will pursue court orders banning them from the estate. All banning orders must be secured in court.

A spokesman for Oxford City Council said: "Anyone who has caused the harassment, alarm and distress that Mr Reid has caused over the past 22 years should also be issued with a lifetime ban."

Brian Lester, the chairman of Blackbird Leys Parish Council, said: "I would say about 98 per cent of people on the estate are law-abiding citizens, who have a right to expect to be able to walk the streets without fear.

"If banning these people from the estate achieves this, it must be a good thing."