A music fan gave his neighbour no peace by blasting out high volume sounds on the morning of his birthday, Bradford Magistrates heard yesterday.

Ex-soldier Shaun Innes was found guilty of twice breaching a noise abatement order when he lived in Orchard Grove, Idle.

“I like to play my music during the day, but not what I would call loud,” he said.

But complaints from nextdoor neighbour Karen Rigby led to an investigation by Bradford Council Environmental Health officers.

Noise expert Brian Fairclough first called at her semi-detached house on July 27 last year and said he could clearly hear R.I.P by Rita Ora and Tinie Tempah booming through the shared living room wall from Innes’s address.

“It was so loud, I was convinced it qualified as a nuisance,” he said.

Asked by Innes, conducting his own defence, how he knew the tune, Mr Fairclough said it was a favourite of his nine-year-old daughter.

An noise abatement order was issued, but at lunchtime on September 16, Mr Fairclough was again called to the address and witnessed very loud dance music being played in Mr Innes’ home.

“It was exceptionally loud,” he said.

No technical readings were taken of decibel levels.

Mr Innes insisted that the shared wall was very thin and even conversations could be heard through it. He also stated he was house-sitting for a friend at the time and could not explain why the music was heard.

Council officers and police seized Innes’s music system, which he replaced and on November 11 – his 38th birthday – Shipley policemen PC Pete Taylor and PC Darren Somma were despatched to Orchard Grove.

PC Taylor said on opening the door, Innes was “aggressive” and “obnoxious”. He said the music had been very loud at about 10.20am.

Innes stressed he opened the door immediately after hearing the knock, which was agreed by both officers, therefore the music could not have been that loud.

Magistrates found Innes guilty of breaching abatement orders on both occasions and fined him £165 plus £200 costs and a £20 victim surcharge to be paid in deductions from benefits.