A UK woman could be locked up if she doesn't silence her extremely loud bedtime activities. Photo / Glenn Jeffrey
A UK woman could be locked up if she doesn't silence her extremely loud bedtime activities. Photo / Glenn Jeffrey
A British woman's rowdy sex sessions could see her sent to prison.
Caroline Cartwright - whose noisy bedroom exploits have officially been labelled as anti-social behaviour by a court - has been given an eight-week suspended prison term.
She was served with an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO), but admittedbreaking it the next day, reports AFP.
"I've heard a very short extract of the noise you make and can well see that your neighbours would be upset and distressed by this,' judge Beatrice Bolton told a Newcastle Court yesterday.
"I did not understand why people asked me to be quiet because to me it is normal,' she told the court.
"I have tried to minimise the situation by having sex in the morning - not at night - so the noise was not waking anybody."
"It needs to be a prison sentence because you need to be deterred," the judge said when passing the suspended sentence, "if you commit further offences of this nature that sentence will be passed and you will made to serve it.'
Noise measuring equipment set up in a neighbour's flat had recorded peaks of over 45 decibels - the same volume as a conversation in the same room, AFP said.
