Woman is evicted for loud 'sex talk' disturbances

Shona Lavington, 32, is also alleged to have supplied alcohol and drugs to her neighbours' children during a four-year "reign of terror" on the city's Whinmoor estate.

Residents have reported dozens of incidents since July 2006, including racial abuse, threats of violence and criminal damage, loud conversations of an "explicitly sexual" nature, partying with gangs of youths, dumping rubbish in gardens and throwing stones and eggs at neighbours' houses.

Ms Lavington was evicted after Leeds City Council applied for a temporary closure order following a string of incidents between June and August this year.

These included loud, late-night parties at her house, during which she allegedly swore and smoked cannabis - and groups of youths shouting and threatening residents.

District judge David Kitson, granting the eviction order at Leeds Magistrates Court, said: "She allowed numbers of teenagers to congregate at her house; parties were held until the early hours of the morning and huge amounts of alcohol were consumed.

"There was frequently arguments and shouting emanating from her house in the early hours of the morning and if any of those people were challenged by her neighbours, threats were made.

"It is quite clear that they (the residents] have been down to their wits' end by the unreasonable behaviour of the respondant and those who visited her house."

Neighbours Gary and Michelle Connolly told the court they were verbally abused by Lavington and felt "threatened" by the gangs of youths, claims supported by residents Simon and Debbie Charlesworth.

Martin Morrow, for Ms Lavington, told the court that she had endured a painful year, with her 55-year-old mother dying suddenly from a heart attack in February and her long-term partner moving out of the house in April.

Ms Lavington denied taking drugs or verbally abusing residents.

Leeds City Council is also making a claim for possession of the house at Leeds County Court, with the next hearing due on September 15.