If you’ve ever grumbled about noisy
neighbours, spare a thought for families living next to the
appropriately named Gemma Wale.The mother-of-two was jailed after
breaching an Asbo that banned her from making ‘loud sex noises’ at her
home.
Wale’s Asbo had forbidden her from making
loud sex noises, playing music at too high a volume, shouting, swearing,
making banging noises, stamping and slamming doors.
Judge Emma Kelly ruled she had also
breached the order by arguing with her boyfriend, swearing at a
neighbour, ‘banging around the house’ and ‘running around in the
property’.
The court heard a nearby resident
complained that, at about 5am on January 29, ‘Gemma started screaming
and shouting whilst having sex, which woke us up. This lasted ten
minutes.’
Wale, of Small Heath, Birmingham, did not
attend court. The judge noted she ‘has not put herself in a position of
showing any remorse for her behaviour’.
I would hear her having sex and my children would too. I used to have to turn the TV up
Neighbour
Another judge had imposed the anti-social
behaviour order earlier that month, but Wale’s former neighbours in
Shard End, Birmingham, from where she was evicted last year, said she
had been a ‘living nightmare’.
They said she would regularly argue with
her boyfriend – named only as Wayne – but that different men were always
‘coming and going’ from her one bedroom council flat.
One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: ‘It was really loud sex … Difficult isn’t even the word to describe her.
‘It was actually the neighbours who got
her evicted … we couldn’t stand it. She would have parties until 5am and
then sleep all day.
The neighbour added: ‘At one stage there
was a man knocking and kicking at her front door while his brother was
getting out of the back window.
‘She had a little boy and a little girl … She was the absolute neighbour from hell. I never ever want to set eyes on her again.’
The woman said her daughter, who was doing
exams at the time, had to move out because of the noise. Another
neighbour, Adrian Edwards, 38, said Wale was ‘terrible’, adding: ‘You
could hear her arguing at 1am or 2am.’
He added: ‘I didn’t get the worst of it because I don’t stay here all the time, my sister does.
‘But Gemma was really loud. I’m sure my sister would have heard her having sex though. She was just so loud all the time.’
Judge Kelly said: ‘In light of the amount
of breaches found, the lack of remorse and the defendant’s attendance at
court literally days before half of these breaches … an immediate term
of imprisonment is justified.’
Following the ruling, the judge imposed
separate two-week jail terms on Miss Wale for each breach but said all
terms would run concurrently.
Wale was jailed on May 12 and has since been released.
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