A NIGHTMARE neighbour who often plays loud music until 6am has come before the courts for the THIRD time this year.

Christina Fordyce, of Greenfields Close, Loughton, was fined £500 at Harlow Magistrates Court, and ordered to pay £158 costs after the district council successfully prosecuted her for breaching a noise abatement notice.

One neighbour of Fordyce, who asked not to be named, said: “Sometimes it'd be 6 O'clock in the morning and the music would be blaring in the garden. They have wild, wild parties. I'd get only two hours' sleep. Then you wake-up and think that you have to do another eight hours on your feet.

“Until they moved in this was a lovely place to live. It was quiet. They're abusive and loud. The place echoes so you hear everything going on.

“I was young once, I did loud music, but 6 O'clock in the morning? These are 18-year-olds. Grow-up.”

One elderly neighbour said: “I've heard it at night and late of the morning. You're laying in bed awake and you can't go to sleep, it often wakes me.

“One time I thought maybe my record player had come on automatically downstairs. I came down then I thought maybe someone was playing out here with a loud car.

“Normally I'd go round and tell them to turn it down but I can't get out much any more- I need crutches.”

Fordyce has now been fined a total of £1,000 with £465 in costs since June this year, and had her music equipment confiscated twice.

A spokesman for the district council said: "The Environment and Neighbourhood Team are satisfied that the fine and forfeiture of equipment that was previously seized from the property should act as a deterrent against any further noise nuisance.

"However, an application for an Anti-Social Behaviour order will be considered if there is evidence of further problems, or breaches of the noise abatement notice."