A British woman whose noisy sex sessions were officially branded anti-social behaviour has been warned she will face jail if she fails to stop the excessively loud lovemaking.
Caroline Cartwright was given an eight-week prison term, suspended for 12 months - meaning if she engages in over-noisy coupling again in the next year, she will immediately be put behind bars.
"I've heard a very short extract of the noise you make and can well see that your neighbours would be upset and distressed by this," judge Beatrice Bolton at Newcastle Crown Court said on Friday.
Cartwright was served with a civil order over marathon romps with husband Steve, described in court as "unnatural" and "like they are both in considerable pain".
Neighbours at their home in Washington, south of Newcastle in northeast England, had complained about the noise - as did passers-by and the postman.
Cartwright was served with an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo), but admitted at a previous hearing to having violated it almost immediately, and repeatedly, in April last year.
An anti-social behaviour order is a civil order made against people deemed to be a public nuisance, and is more typically issued for young delinquents using threatening behaviour, or disrupting the peace.
At an earlier hearing the court was told the local council set up special equipment in a neighbour's flat and recorded noise levels of 30-40 decibels, peaking at 47 - as loud as a conversation in the same room.
Cartwright told the court she had tried to restrain herself.
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