Noisy couple fined for disturbing neighbours

Speakers - not pictured - were seized, along with other equipment, from the couple's home

A couple who made so much noise that their neighbours complained to the council have been fined.

Kevin Kimani and Caroline Gitau, of Franklin Avenue, Slough, were both told to pay £2,531 in costs and fines in their absence at Reading Magistrates’ Court.

Slough Borough Council said it received complaints about noise, including overnight, coming from Kimani and Gitau’s home in January 2023.

The authority installed sound monitoring equipment and a formal noise abatement notice was issued to the pair in October 2023.

That was breached within days and a warrant was issued to seize a TV, a games console, games, speakers and amplifiers in November 2023.

They were both told to pay £1,859 prosecution costs, a £480 fine and a £192 victim surcharge on 1 July.

Ishrat Shah, the council’s lead member for equalities, public health and public protection, said: “This is a great result and a lesson to others not to cause such misery to their neighbours by being too noisy.

“We want residents to live peacefully in their homes without statutory nuisance from others and we will continue to take action against those who are anti-social, with noise or other behaviour.”