YNOT EUROPE – A woman who annoys her neighbors with loud vocalizations during lovemaking has avoided jail for a second time, but the court issued a warning that one more violation of the Anti Social Behavior Order it issued last year will land her behind bars.

Caroline Cartwright, 49, was placed under the ASBO in April 2009 after neighbors repeatedly complained about the volume of the sexual antics she engages in with her husband Steve. According to the order, Cartwright is to refrain from “making excessive noise, knocking, shouting, screaming or vocalization that can be heard in neighboring properties or outside [her] house.”

Undaunted, the Cartwrights continued their noisy play, resulting in Caroline Cartwright’s arrest twice in the past year. On the second offense, she was ordered to spend eight weeks behind bars, but the sentence was suspended under the condition she stay out of trouble for 12 months.

She didn’t. On June 29, Cartwright landed in Newcastle Crown Court for a third time. She admitted two additional breaches of the ASBO, although only one was for “having excessively noisy sex with her husband.” The second involved loud music.

According to the prosecutor, on March 14 neighbors Rachel O’Connor and Vince Wilson “were watching television in their living room when they heard screaming from the defendant next door. It lasted for fourteen minutes or so. Then when Mr. Wilson returned home on Monday, he was aware of loud music coming from next door and called the police.”

The court handed Cartwright a jail term of 12 weeks this time, but also suspended the sentence for 12 months.

“It’s clear to this court that with your noisy lovemaking and playing loud music you have made your neighbors lives thoroughly miserable, disturbing their sleep so they are tired when they go to work and generally interfering with their lives,” the judge told Cartwright. “People are entitled to live peacefully and not being exposed to excessively irritating and upsetting noise. It is in my judgment it was thoroughly selfish behavior on your part, and it is not acceptable.”

However, he also evidently decided he didn’t want to become known as the judge who sent a woman to prison for enjoying sex too much.

“This court is giving you one final chance,” he told Cartwright. “You know what sort of noise will be a disturbance to your neighbors. You have been given one last chance — don’t come back to this Crown Court.”