Woman avoids jail over ‘murderously loud’ sex sessions

A WOMAN who made her neighbours’ lives hell with noisy sex sessions with her husband avoided jail again yesterday.

Caroline Cartwright, 49, was in court again for breaching an anti-social behaviour order banning her from “shouting, screaming or vocalisation” during sex with her husband Steve.

Their love-making has been described as “murder” and “unnatural” and drowned out their neighbours’ televisions.

Jobless Cartwright claims she is unable to stop the loud shouting and screaming during sex and says the Asbo is a breach of herhuman rights.

“I did not understand why people asked me to be quiet because to me it is normal. I didn’t understand where they were coming from,” she explained at a previous court appearance.

“I have tried to minimise the situation by having sex in the morning – not at night – so the noise was not waking anybody.

“I may be sympathetic to it, but it is not something I am doing on purpose.”

Yesterday at Newcastle Crown Court Cartwright admitted two charges of breaching the Asbo at her home in Hall Road, Washington, Tyne and Wear.

The court heard that her neighbour Rachel O’Connor called the police after hearing Cartwright shouting and screaming for 10 minutes during love-making on the morning of March 14 this year.

The next day O’Connor’s partner, Vince Wilson, also called police after thedefendant could be heard singing at the top of her voice to dance music blasting out from her terraced house.

Police officers, who attended the neighbours’ flat, heard 20 minutes of loud music and singing before arresting Cartwright, the court heard.

The saga of Cartwright’s love-making has been a long-running drama, which has seen her jailed and forced to live in a bail hostel away from her husband.

Two years ago after neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise, she was hit with a noise abatement notice.

Yesterday prosecutor Penny Moreland explained that when Cartwright breached the notice five times she was made subject of an anti-social behaviour order in April last year.

In January this year she received an eight-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, after admitting three charges of breaching the Asbo, Moreland said.

“The complaints are in respect of playing loudmusic for long periods and the noise made by Ms Cartwright, shouting and screaming, during sex with her husband,” Moreland said.

Christopher Rose, defending, said Cartwright’s behaviour had caused herself great hardship.

“Clearly these proceedings have taken a toll upon her and she has spent a long period in a bail hostel and in respect of earlier proceedings a spell in custody,” he told the court.

Recorder Jeremy Freedman told Cartwright that only her guilty pleas yesterday had saved her from the eight-week suspended prison term that was hanging over her.

“It is clear to this court with your noisy love-making and playing loud music you have made your neighbours’ lives thoroughly miserable, disturbing their sleep so they are tired when they go to work and generally interfering with their enjoyment of their own home,” the recorder said.

“Clearly they are entitled to live peacefully and not be exposed to excessive, irritating and upsetting noise.

“It is in my judgment thoroughly selfish behaviour,” he said.

“If you breach this Asbo you will be going to prison. This court is giving you one last chance,” he added.

He imposed a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and a one-year supervision order.