卡特赖特夫妇在法庭上

据英国媒体22日报道，英国一对夫妻因长期半夜行房音量过大，邻居不堪骚扰将其告上法庭，法官认定这个妻子如“谋杀”般的叫声确实给邻居造成困扰，判处她两个月监禁缓期12个月执行。

史蒂夫·卡特赖特和他48岁的妻子卡罗琳来自泰恩-威尔郡。卡罗琳此前就收到一个噪音控制通知，但她还是我行我素。于是，法庭便下达了一个更为强硬的“反社会行为令”。结果3天后她又违反了这一法令。

据报道，他们房事的声音就像遭遇“谋杀”一样“不自然”，而且音量大到盖过了邻居的电视声音。邻居透露说他们通常半夜开始“工作”，经常持续二三个小时，而且几乎天天如此。

当局在卡罗琳邻居房间里放置了特殊的设备记录噪音水平，他们曾一度录到高达47分贝的噪音。

处于无业状态的卡罗琳反击说她有个人及家庭隐私权，而她行房时也不是故意在大叫，自己控制不了。“我不明白人们为什么让我安静点，对我来说这很正常，真不知道这些投诉是从哪里来的，”她说，“我们现在已经改在早上行房，这样就不会把谁给吵醒了。”

然而，法官还是判处她两个月监禁缓期12个月执行。法官告诉她:“向你实行反社会行为令是很特殊的一种情况。我也听过你行房时的录音片段，我能理解你的邻居为什么会感到不安、心烦……重点是反社会行为令下达3天后你又违反规定了。”

“我只有用刑罚来阻止你这么做，如果你继续类似违法行为，那就意味着缓刑撤销，你要去坐牢了。”法官最后警告说。

附原文：

Noisy sex woman loses appeal bid

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 BBC NEWS:

A recording of the Cartwrights having sex was played in court

A woman who was banned from making loud noises during sex has lost

an appeal against her conviction.

Caroline and Steve Cartwright's love-making was described as "murder" and "unnatural" at Newcastle Crown Court.

Neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise.

Mrs Cartwright, 48, from Washington on Wearside, lost the appeal against a conviction for breaching a noise abatement notice.

She argued she had a right to "respect for her private and family life" under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.

We are in no doubt whatsoever about the level of noise that can be heard in neighbouring properties, in the street and in the back lane.

Recorder Jeremy Freedman, Newcastle Crown Court But Recorder Jeremy Freedman, sitting with two magistrates, rejected her claim that she could not help making the loud noise during sex.

He said: "We are in no doubt whatsoever about the level of noise that can be heard in neighbouring properties, in the street and in the back lane.

"It certainly was intrusive and constituted a statutory nuisance. It was clearly of a very disturbing nature and it was also compounded by the duration - this was not a one-off, it went on for hours at a time.

"It is further compounded by the frequency of the episode, virtually every night."

'Shouting and screaming' Next door neighbour Rachel O'Connor told the court she was frequently late for work because she overslept having been awake most of the night because of the noise.

She said: "The noise sounds like they are both in considerable pain. I cannot describe the noise. I have never ever heard anything like it."

The court heard Sunderland City Council recorded levels of up 47  decibels.

Mrs Cartwright was appealing against the abatement notice, which was imposed in November 2007, and a subsequent Asbo, banning the couple from "shouting, screaming or vocalisation at such a level as to be a statutory nuisance".

She has since been accused of three counts of breaching the Asbo, but has denied the charges and will stand trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 14 December.