Screamer sent to slammer

03 June 2015 - 02:02 By ©The Daily Telegraph

A woman who breached a court order barring her from making "loud sex noises" was sent to jail. Gemma Wale, of Small Heath, Birmingham, was given a two-week prison sentence after a civil court judge concluded that she had breached the order by "screaming and shouting while having sex" at a "level of noise" that annoyed a neighbour.Judge Emma Kelly, following a hearing in Birmingham County Court, concluded that Wale had breached an anti-social behaviour order.The judge, who did not give Wale's age in her ruling, said the antisocial behaviour order had barred 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.Kelly said a neighbour had complained that at about 5am on January 29 "paragraph 3 of the order" had been breached."Gemma started screaming and shouting while having sex, which woke us up," said the neighbour. "This lasted 10 minutes." ..

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