Woman jailed after making 'loud sex noises'

A woman who breached a court order barring her from causing nuisance by making “loud sex noises” has been 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 whilst having sex” at a “level of noise” which annoyed a neighbour.

Detail has emerged in a written ruling by Judge Emma Kelly following a hearing in Birmingham County Court. Judge Kelly concluded that Miss Wale had breached an anti-social behaviour order. She said Birmingham City Council took legal action after a neighbour complained. The judge did not give Miss Wale’s age in her ruling but said she had a boyfriend called Wayne.



Judge Kelly said the anti-social behaviour order had barred Miss Wale from making “loud sex noises”. Judge Kelly said another judge had imposed an anti-social behaviour order in January. She said she had analysed allegations that the order had been breached at a hearing in May. The judge indicated that Miss Wale lived in a property owned by Birmingham City Council and said she had heard evidence from a council housing officer and one of Miss Wale’s neighbours.

Judge Kelly said a neighbour had complained that at around 5am on January 29 “paragraph 3 of the order” had been breached. “Gemma started screaming and shouting whilst having sex, which woke us up,” said the neighbour. “This lasted 10 minutes.” The judge concluded: “I am satisfied that during the course of the early hours of 29th January 2015, at around 5am, the defendant was guilty of screaming and shouting whilst having sex at a level of noise which caused nuisance or annoyance to (a neighbour).”