SHE topped the charts with her hit single Don’t Stop The Music. But now two Rihanna fans from York have been hauled before the courts — and told to do just that.

Lyndsey Valerie Smith and Sean Anthony Brough, of Tang Hall, had been repeatedly told to keep the noise down, to avoid disturbing their neighbours.

But they were caught again playing Rihanna hits loudly after midnight, and prosecuted. They now face a £1,215 bill.

York magistrates heard that noise enforcement officers repeatedly told the pair to keep the noise down over eight months.

Anthony Dean, for City of York Council, told the court that, after midnight on November 27, a noise patrol heard half an hour of music so loud they declared it was impossible for anyone to sleep or rest in the next-door house.

The couple told the court they had turned their stereo in the kitchen down so much they couldn’t hear it in the bathroom immediately above it and that the next-door neighbours complained if they heard the couple laughing or talking in their own home.

Smith, 28, and Brough, 27, both of Constantine Avenue, pleaded guilty to breaching a noise abatement notice and were each ordered to pay £350, a £15 victim surcharge and £250 towards prosecution costs, a total between them of £1,215. Their stereo was confiscated.

Mr Dean said council officers first received a complaint about the couple’s music in April when it was so loud in the next-door house they could distinctly hear the words of In The Summertime and other songs between 1.55am and 2.20am on Sunday, April 10.

Despite warnings, the couple played loud music on other occasions, and both were served with noise abatement notices in the following months.

On November 27, the noise patrol was again called to the street and heard Rihanna songs with a bass played so loudly it was impossible to rest or sleep in the neighbours’ bedroom.

The couple handed in a letter written for them by the neighbours on the other side of their house. They said they had wanted to go into mediation with the complaining neighbours, but the neighbours were not interested.

The couple also said on one occasion when the neighbours complained, they had invited council officers in to show that they were not playing their stereo and the officers accepted they were not responsible for the noise.