"I actually believed it was domestic violence, it sounded that unnatural"

Environmental health officer Pamela Spark told the court that she had listened to 23 recordings of the couple having sex.

She said: ‘There was an excessive screaming female voice on the recordings. I felt that the noise was a clear breach of the abatement notice at that level.’

Ms O’Connor’s landlady Anne Dimmock told the court she had trouble keeping tenants because of the Cartwrights’s romping…

Partially-deaf neighbour Margery Ball said she had not had a decent night’s sleep in two years because of the Cartwrights’s bedroom activities.