A MAN who has 96 criminal convictions for 148 offences broke his Asbo just two days after leaving prison.

Notorious town drunk Martin Rogers, 55, was given the anti-social behaviour order last month to keep him out of the town centre.

Police said the ban was necessary as he had become a menace to the public.

At the same time Buck, as he is commonly known, was jailed at Swindon Magistrates' Court for causing £1,000 worth of damage to a parked van.

He was back in court yesterday after being arrested on Saturday for breaking the Asbo, 48 hours after being back on the streets.

The chairman of the bench, Malcolm Wilford, sent Rogers, of Cheney Manor Road, to prison for another two months and told him to mend his ways.

Rob Welling, prosecuting, said Rogers had deliberately broken the Asbo by going to the Fleming Way car park to get himself arrested because he did not want to sleep rough.

After his latest arrest, his sister, of Cheney Manor Road, has offered him a home.

"One of the matters that Mr Rogers frequently came to the attention of the police for was he would habitually pick up the nearest heavy object he could find and break a window to get himself arrested," Mr Welling said.

"Now he simply has to be in a certain place to get arrested."

Rob Ross, defending, said Rogers had not meant to do anything else wrong apart from break the terms of the Asbo.

"There's no suggestion that Martin Rogers was doing anything other than sitting in a car park in the town centre," he said.

"He wasn't acting in a remotely antisocial way. He wasn't abusing people, he wasn't breaking anything.

"He had gone into the car park because it was hacking down with rain. He only intended to get arrested to get a bed for the night.

"He has literally done no more than cross the boundary into the nearest car park and asked someone to tell the police."

Mr Wilford said Rogers needed to stop using the police to solve his accommodation troubles.

He said: "Clearly it was motivated by alcohol. You had only two days before been released from prison and we see this as a deliberate act to breach the Asbo.

"An Asbo was made to try and correct something in your mind that would stop this behaviour.

"The message we wish to pass to you now is that if in the past it was felt that this sort of thing was a way of solving a temporary accommodation problem the court is not prepared to put up with it any further."