'Noisy sex' ASBO woman arrested again

A woman with an ASBO banning her from having noisy sex has been arrested again.

Caroline Cartwright of Washington, Tyne and Wear, lost an appeal against the ban in November and admitted breaching the order again in December.

She was handed a suspended sentence in January, but The Daily Telegraph reports that she has now been arrested for breaking the ban again.

Cartwright is currently staying in a bail hostel to keep her apart from her husband Steve while officials decide what to do. She has previously spent eight months in the hostel and on her return home earlier this year she moved her bed into the dining room in an attempt to avoid disturbing the neighbours.

"This is just ridiculous," she said. "It was just for ten minutes at around 10.15am on a Sunday morning. You couldn't hear that much because the bed is downstairs in the dining room and not in the bedroom.

"The police came on Monday night to arrest me and lock me up. I spent the night in the cells and appeared at Houghton-Le-Spring Magistrates' Court on Tuesday. They said they believed I had breached the ASBO again because two neighbours said they heard us. It was only ten minutes, not the two-hour sessions like we used to have."

Cartwright added that the ASBO is putting pressure on her marriage and said: "We aren't doing it as much as we used to because it's not exactly relaxing knowing that everyone is listening for you to make a noise."

Cartwright will remain in the bail hostel until her committal hearing on May 13.