Statistics show numbers of noisy North neighbours

Jul 5 2009 by Dan Warburton, Sunday Sun

In court for making love too loudly

FOR couple Steve and Caroline Cartwright, it was their steamy sex sessions that drove their neighbours bonkers.

And for more than two months the pair have been separated after Caroline was banged up in a bail hostel for allegedly breaching her ASBO stopping her noisy romps between the sheets.

Tomorrow she is due back before a judge at Newcastle Crown Court.

But Caroline says the situation is causing her stress and she is now on anti depressants as she goes to bed alone each night.

It was the couple’s steamy love-making that landed Caroline in hot water.

The cavorting couple’s noisy romps lasted for up to four hours and pushed their neighbours to the brink.

And after a series of complaints, the marathon sessions forced council chiefs to slap a noise abatement order on the pair to stop them from shouting and screaming during their late night and early morning love-making.

But Caroline, 48, was remanded in custody for three breaches of her ASBO in just 10 days.

A four-year order was imposed by magistrates in Sunderland on April 17 and prevented Caroline “making excessive noise” anywhere in England.

She is now in a bail hostel in Sunderland and Steve drives across to see her every day but has to leave at bedtime to return home.

Caroline today said: “This is causing so much stress that my GP has put me on anti depressants.

“My bail condition is that I can’t go to the matrimonial home and the rules in the hostel is that Steve can’t stay the night.

“I am back at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday for the alleged breach of the ASBO, but I’m told that will be adjourned.

“I am appealing against the ASBO and the noise abatement order that I had slapped on me and that will be heard on September 17.

“This means I could be in the hostel for months more. Everyone is talking about me supposedly driving them bonkers but this situation is depressing me.

“I have an active love life and that is it. The sooner we get things sorted, the better.”

For two years, neighbours got their knickers in a twist over the prolonged noise.

The lengthy escapades led to more than 25 visits from the police to their home on Hall Road, Concord, Washington, Tyne and Wear, and the pair have been arrested twice for causing a nuisance to neighbours and people passing by their open bedroom window.

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