Stoke-on-Trent residents "unhappy" after late night music is turned off by police

Residents at a Stoke-on-Trent flat are lamenting the loss of Pink Floyd at 4am after the noise is switched off by Staffordshire Police.

Paul Foster, 51, was blasting various Pink Floyd albums out late at night and into the early morning. He also played music by Barry White, Marvin Gaye and Hot Chocolate. In one instance he played "It Started With A Kiss" about fifteen times in the same night, local neighbours reported.

One would think this constant noise would be a nuisance however surprisingly local residents who lived in the same building had no issues with Mr. Foster's late night blast and some even enjoyed it.

One neighbour, Roger Appleton, 36, who lives in the room directly above Foster's said: "It was helping me to sleep, The Dark Side Of The Moon album is like a lullaby really especially when it blasts you softly to sleep."

Next door neighbour, Daniel Richardson, 24, said: "I welcomed the noise so much that I bought him a Denon Hi-Fi as a Christmas present and insisted that he install it on the wall that was directly adjacent to my bedroom, he did exactly that and I had the best nights sleep for months."

The neighbour below, George Thacker, said: "When he used to play dance music I would time the beat so it was directly phased to the pulses of my headache, that way the thumping beats would actually cancel my excruciating pains out. Give me hardcore drum and bass over paracetamol any day."

However the local police were not as supportive and had an order from Stoke-on-Trent Council to eliminate the noise pollution as soon as possible. They did exactly that and Foster was arrested.

He appeared before Stoke-on-Trent County Court and was jailed for 28 days for breaching an injunction from playing loud music for the fifth time.

Foster was first hauled before the courts in September last year but then breached an ‘undertaking to his future conduct’ agreement on October 4 and December 1 last year.

He was sentenced to 21 days in jail suspended for one year on January 17 and also served with an injunction banning him from causing nuisance noise.

He breached the injunction on February 22 and was jailed for 63 days on March 20 when he admitted further breaches.

Foster then breached the injunction again on May 30 despite spending time at at HMP Dovegate prison, in Staffordshire.