A syrupy love song by U.S. pop star Whitney Houston has sparked a second legal case in Britain after the constant strains of "I will always love you" moved two London neighbors to blows.
A 20-year-old fan of the hit record, Helen Stephens, was jailed for a week earlier this month for noise pollution after repeatedly refusing to turn down the volume on her stereo.A London court heard Thursday of a second confrontation in which 31-year-old Joan Hall threw her neighbor's stereo set out of a fourth-floor window and was set upon by the aggrieved owner, Julie Woolford, whose son Jason was the Whitney fan.
"I had just had enough of the noise," Hall told a London magistrates court where Woolford pleaded guilty to assault.
"They put the stereo on at full blast every night. . . . It was mostly Whitney Houston singing `I will always love you' and it was driving us all up the wall," said Hall, who lives in the same apartment building as Woolford.
Woolford, 43, was released on bail pending sentencing and ordered to stay at a different address away from Hall.