Father-of-six slams his neighbour after she installs an anti-CHILD 'mosquito' alarm

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A father-of-six says his retired magistrate neighbour is making his family's life hell - after she installed an anti-child alarm on her house.

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Single father Thomas Weldon, 52, claims his children have been hospitalised and left housebound by the controversial high-pitched alarm, which he claims was installed by neighbour Lesley Cooper earlier this year.

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The removal worker, who lives in the quiet seaside town of Babbacombe, Devon, alleges the alarm points directly at his door and during the summer months has been turned on at least three times a week.

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Thomas, who lives in a rented four-bedroom property which backs onto Ms Cooper's home, said the alarm has made his children feel like they are being kept prisoner in their home during the summer months.

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But retired teacher says she has been forced to do so because of the behaviour of Thomas' large brood who she has branded a 'nuisance'.

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The alarms, which are completely legal, produce a high-pitched discomforting noise that is only audible to young children and teenagers.

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But he says the alarm causes his youngsters to scream in pain and has led to a bitter neighbourhood dispute between the pair.

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'The alarm makes them scream in pain, I even had to take my daughter to hospital because her ears didn't stop ringing.

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It works by emitting an alternating high-frequency tone four times a second which isn't audible to people over about 25 years of age, but is intensely irritating to people under that age.

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