A WOMAN who drove her neighbours bonkers with her late-night sex sessions has been evicted from her home.

Tara Campbell, 30, has been given 28 days to pack her bags after Joan and Fred McLauchlin said their once "perfect life" was ruined by her antics.

During a two-day trial at Newcastle County Court, Mrs McLauchlin, 42, told how she could hear Campbell's bed "creaking and creaking" through the 9in thick brick wall.

Mrs McLauchlin kept a nuisance diary to log the complaints to North Tyneside Council - but she said the sound of Campbell having sex was a major disruption.

She told the court: "People can have sex any time they like and as long as I can't hear it I don't care. I don't expect to be woken up by it in the middle of the night and kept awake."

James Richardson, representing Campbell, claimed the mother-of-three had not had a sexual relationship for a long period of time.

He said Mrs McLauchlin was "misinterpreting or distorting" the noise.

Judge Peter Bullock said about the sex claims: "It appears the noise went on for a period of two hours, which has to be unreasonable."

Judge Bullock said there might have been "some credence" in claims that Mr and Mrs McLauchlin were acting oversensitively.

But the judge added: "The defendants' conduct seriously affected the lives of her neighbours.

"Despite the warnings she persistently pursued a course of conduct knowing the distress she was causing to the neighbours."

Judge Bullock found 107 of the 293 complaints made against Campbell to be unfounded - but said the remaining 186 proved she had been a nuisance.

Speaking after the hearing Mrs McLauchlin, a housewife, said: "The noise of her having sex was atrocious, it just went on and on."