A British woman who kept her neighbours awake by engaging in enthusiastic love-making has been sentenced to two weeks in prison.

Monday’s court ruling stated that during the early hours of January 29, 2015 “the defendant (Gemma Wale) was guilty of screaming and shouting whilst having sex at a level of noise which caused nuisance or annoyance”.

This court heard a neighbour in a social housing complex in Birmingham, central England, who was woken up by the sounds, complained about her “screaming and shouting”.

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“It lasted 10 minutes,” the neighbour added.

The woman’s boyfriend, Wayne, received no punishment.

A former neighbour was quoted by the Birmingham Mail as saying: “There were men going in and out of her flat all the time. Then she would sleep all day. It was the worst two years of my life.

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The ruling also found her guilty of ‘banging around the house’, ‘running around in the property’, having loud arguments with her boyfriend, playing loud music, swearing and slamming doors.

Such behaviour was judged in breach of her anti-social behaviour order, a legal sanction used for repeat offenders of low-level incidents that do not warrant full criminal prosecution.

The sentence was two weeks in prison for each of the breaches to her so-called Asbo, to be served concurrently.