Couple's noisy sex woke their deaf neighbour
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:46 pm
Couple's noisy sex woke their deaf neighbour
Randy Caroline Cartwright was fined yesterday—over sex sessions so noisy they woke her partially deaf neighbour.
Caroline, 47, was served with a noise abatement notice last year over her bedroom antics with factory worker hubby Steve, 46.
But the couple's raucous romps continued — with fed-up neighbours reporting "moaning, groaning, screaming and even SLAPPING".
One said the racket was like domestic violence.
Environmental Health officials built up a catalogue of 23 recordings, made through one neighbour's soundproofed walls.
Nuisance And Sunderland JPs heard the tapes on headphones before declaring the romps a "statutory nuisance".
Rachel O'Connor, who taped the sessions in Washington, Tyne and Wear, said: "I heard sounds of a sexual nature—really loud. It came from both parties."
Partially-deaf Margery Ball told officials she had not had a full night's sleep in two years due to the Cartwrights—wed 25 years....