Looks like the avian equivalent of Guantanamo!
He’s gonna be doing bird for a bit, and his owners will be up before the beak…
A loud-mouthed rooster has become a jailhouse cock, after it was the first live creature to be seized by noise pollution chiefs.
Neighbours were cock-a-hoop as police swooped down to seize the crowing cockerel whose constant squawking in a suburban back garden caused them round-the-clock disturbance for months.
Colchester Council environmental control officers, who organised the raid on Friday with help from the RSPCA, will now seek a court order to prevent the jailbird ever coming home to Plume Avenue, Shrub End.
His owners, Michael and Theresa Fanders, had failed to respond to letters and a statutory noise abatement notice.
The council went to court on Friday to get a warrant to seize the bird.
Mr and Mrs Fanders refused to speak to the Evening Gazette.
12:00pm Monday 5th June 2006
