A HOMELESS man has been ordered to pay a Bournemouth trader £100 in compensation after damaging a sign.

Sean Stanley, 29, admitted criminal damaging a sign outside We Fix in Holdenhurst Road during a hearing at Poole Magistrates' Court on Monday.

The offence happened on September 10.

Stanley also admitted the commission of a further offence while subject to a conditional discharge order for a period of 12 months for possessing a class A drug.

He was ordered to pay compensation and costs.

As reported in the Daily Echo, David Walters of We Fix is one of the Holdenhurst Road traders to complain that Springbourne is the "forgotten district of Bournemouth".

He said: "I've been here seven years.

"We used to get a few people from a halfway house down the road coming, sitting on the wall over the road and drinking.

"But now we get people walking up and down here and they're like zombies, they're on drugs.

"I guy a little while ago did a karate kick on my sign, and I was told by police afterwards he was homeless and 'off his head' on something."