Noisy sex woman spared jail term
Caroline Cartwright and her husband Steve arrive at Newcastle Crown Court
Tuesday June 29 2010
A woman who made her neighbours' 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 banning her from "shouting, screaming or vocalisation" during romps with her husband Steve.
Their love-making has been described as "murder" and "unnatural" and drowned out their neighbours' televisions.
Jobless Mrs 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."
At Newcastle Crown Court Mrs Cartwright admitted two charges of breaching the Asbo at her home in Hall Road, Concord, Washington, Tyne and Wear.
Recorder Jeremy Freedman told Cartwright that only her guilty pleas 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.
Press Association
