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British woman jailed for two weeks after 'loud sex noises' caused nuisance to neighbours

Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 11:17 Last update: about 10 years ago

Gemma Wale was given a two-week prison sentence after a judge ruled she had breached the order by "screaming and shouting whilst having sex" at a "level of noise" which annoyed a neighbour.

A neighbour, who did not want to be identified, said after the hearing: "She was unbelievable. You could hear her screaming and moaning from the other side of the road. I complained about her several times but nothing came of it for ages. It didn't matter what time of day it was, she'd be at it all the time."

Another former neighbour described how the community had been driven to despair by her behaviour.

 

The woman, who asked not to be named, told the Birmingham Mail: "It was the worst two years of my life. All the neighbours banded together to get her out. I lost count of the number of times I had to knock on her door at 3, 4, 5 o'clock in the morning."

"It took the council a good year to do anything about it. It doesn't surprise me she ended up being jailed. She deserved it.

"She drove us all to despair - I have never had a neighbour like her."

Details have emerged in a written ruling by Judge Emma Kelly following a hearing in Birmingham County Court.

Judge Kelly concluded that Miss Wale, of Small Heath, Birmingham, had breached an anti-social behaviour order.

Wale is not the first neighbour from hell to find herself in court over her sex antics, the Mirror reported.

 

Single mum Gemma Walker was booted out of her home in Middlesbrough over her raucous sex sessions upset neighbours in 2013.

Judge Kelly said the anti-social behaviour order had barred Miss Wale from making "loud sex noises".

The order had also barred her from causing nuisance by playing loud music, shouting, swearing, making banging noises, stamping and slamming doors.

The judge concluded that she had also breached the order by arguing with her boyfriend, swearing at a neighbour, "banging around the house" and "running around in the property".

She imposed separate two-week jail terms on Miss Wale for each breach but said all terms would run concurrently.

Judge Kelly said a neighbour had complained that at around 5am on January 29 "paragraph 3 of the order" had been breached.

"Gemma started screaming and shouting whilst having sex, which woke us up," said the neighbour. "This lasted 10 minutes."

The judge concluded: "I am satisfied that during the course of the early hours of 29 January 2015, at around 5am, the defendant was guilty of screaming and shouting whilst having sex at a level of noise which caused nuisance or annoyance to (a neighbour)."

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