A man has been banned from keeping dogs over what officials described as “one of the worst cases of noise nuisance” they've ever investigated.
John Peter Laveric, 46, of Pit Lane, Widnes, was slapped with a five-year Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) and told to pay £500 in costs after complaints from stressed-out neighbours over his pets barking thousands of times. Under the CBO, Laveric must remove all dogs from his home and not have any dogs on those premises or anywhere else in Halton.
Laveric appeared on Tuesday at North Cheshire Magistrates’ Court in Warrington, which heard complaints over excessive barking began at his previous home on Eric Street, Widnes, in May 2017. Halton Borough Council first prosecuted Laveric in April 2018 in what a spokeswoman for the authority said was one of the worse noise nuisance cases dealt with, up until that point.
