A car clamper accused of "aggressive and intimidating behaviour" is facing an anti-social behaviour order.

George McDicken, 38, of Ling Park Approach, Wilsden, who is employed by Carstoppers at Changegate car park in Haworth, is due to appear before a district judge at Leeds Magistrates' Court today.

Mr McDicken is the subject of many complaints over his conduct at the car park. Traders have complained for many years that the village has gained a reputation for excessive clamping which is hitting tourism in the area.

In 2003 Carstoppers won the RAC Dick Turpin Award for the nation's worst clamper. A spokesman for the Bradford-based ASBO team said they would be seeking an interim order.

They would be presenting 16 incidents which took place during a six-month period from October last year and around seven dating back until 2002.

The evidence being presented is not linked to the lawful action of clamping but to behaviour in relation to it.

"We will be applying for an interim order and if the respondent wants to contest that, there will be an adjournment for a full hearing at a date to be fixed," he said.

"The district judge could look at the evidence and if he decided there was substance to them he could impose the interim order, which could have certain conditions attached."

A later full hearing could result in the order being ratified or rescinded.

The minimum term of an anti-social behaviour order was two years, the maximum life, he said.

In March 2005 the Telegraph & Argus reported how a minibus from Haycliffe Special Needs School in Great Horton, Bradford, was clamped after it parked across two bays in the Changegate car park and staff had to pay £50 for its release.

It was said the incident led to one of the six schoolchildren who were using the minibus having an epileptic seizure.

The company also reportedly immobilised one car while the driver was asleep inside and showed no sympathy to a wheelchair user and her husband who arrived late after struggling up a hill.