A British woman who made her neighbors' lives hell with noisy sex sessions with her husband has avoided jail again.Caroline Cartwright, 49, was in court again for breaching an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) banning her from "shouting, screaming or vocalization" during romps with her husband Steve. Their love-making has been described as "murder" and "unnatural" and drowned out their neighbours' televisions.
Cartwright claims she is unable to stop the loud shouting and screaming during sex and says the Asbo is a breach of her human 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."
On Tuesday at Newcastle Crown Court Cartwright admitted two charges of breaching the Asbo at her home in Hall Road. 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 the defendant 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.
On Tuesday 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.
Christopher Rose, defending, said Cartwright had caused herself great hardship because of her behaviour. Recorder Jeremy Freedman told Cartwright that only her guilty pleas on Tuesday had saved her from the eight-week suspended prison term that was hanging over her.
He imposed a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and a one-year supervision order."