THREE young men have been fined for making their neighbour’s wall shake with the noise of their loud music.

Andrea Barker, prosecuting for City of York Council, said the authority repeatedly warned the residents of a house in Landalewood Road, Rawcliffe, in November and December to keep the volume down.

But on January 11, three days after officers served noise-abatement order notices by hand on Samuel Gregory, 25, Edward Billy Gregory, 21, and Matthew Clegg, 23, they received another complaint.

They also received complaints on March 1, 2, 3 and 6, April 9 and May 9, the council’s solicitor told York magistrates.

When noise-nuisance specialists visited the neighbour’s property on May 11, from 10.15pm to 11.05pm, they heard dance music with a strong bass beat coming from the trio’s house.

It was so loud it made the neighbour’s wall and floor shake. It also made it impossible for the neighbour to hear his television.

“The council feels it had no option but to bring this prosecution,” said Ms Barker. “Several warnings were given before and after the notices, the defendants were spoken to in person as well as warning letters sent.

“There were a number of complaints over a long period of time.”

The Gregorys and Clegg all pleaded guilty to breaking a noise-abatement order, and were each fined £100 with a £20 statutory surcharge and £468 towards the council’s costs.

The magistrates also confiscated two “monster” speakers seized by the council with other equipment from the house on May 15.

The trio, who represented themselves, handed their mitigation in a written document, together with other documents, to the magistrates, and alleged that many of the noise complaints were false. They also disputed that all the equipment seized by the council, which included a Sky TV box, had been used in breaching the noise order.

Ms Barker said the council made the noise-abatement order after studying recordings made by noise-monitoring equipment left between December 21 and December 28.

The trio said the house had only been occupied for two days between December 21 and December 28 and one disputed receiving the noise-abatement order.