Harold Brown, 80, given £200 penalty after Hampshire neighbours complained of crowing he said was a ‘croak’
A man has been fined after his noisy pet cockerel subjected neighbours in a quiet street to “torture” by repeatedly crowing as early as 3am.
They told Southampton magistrates court they had had to avoid parts of their house to get away from the “discernible” and “significant” squawking that would occur almost every morning. Opening the case, the prosecutor Syan Ventom said the “nuisance” occurred at Brown’s home address in Calmore. It was heard Brown did not abide by this notice but soon after, his pet cockerel died, which allowed for a “brief period of respite for neighbours”, the prosecutor said. But Ventom said that soon afterwards Brown obtained another cockerel and “the nuisance reoccurred”.
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