We live next to the UK's poshest prison - foul-mouthed inmates make our lives hell

Fed-up locals living next door to the UK’s 'poshest prison’ say their lives are made hell by foul-mouthed inmates.

Residents have banned their children from playing in back gardens because of swearing lags in HMP Fosse Way. They say the bad language and loud rap music plagues their lives - describing them as the “ultimate noisy neighbours”. Homeowners also claim confused birds chirp throughout the night because of the bright lights in the £286m “mega-jail”.

HMP Fosse Way opened two years ago and is the country’s newest jail aimed at solving Britain’s prison population crisis. The category C facility near Leicester houses 1,700 prisoners who are nearing the end of their sentences.

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Perks aimed at helping them reintegrate into society include five-a-side pitches, music studios and outdoor gyms. But locals living in its shadow say they are plagued by loud noises at all hours of the day and night.

Warren Sim, 56, likened the noises to a "jumbo jet" taking off and fears it has made his house unsellable. The dad-of-four added: “We live a couple of hundred metres away from the nearest wing. The noise is absolutely ridiculous. Prisoners are effing and blinding at each other. The explicit rap music is so loud you hear it in our garden"

“Then there are the alarms that go off all the time. And the air conditioning fans sound like there’s a jumbo jet taking off in our garden. I’ve spent an extreme amount of money to make the back garden pleasurable but we can’t enjoy it.”

Mum-of-two Jaclyn Tierney, 47, said: “The music is that loud it’s like my neighbours are playing it. It’s so obscene, it’s the f-word, the n-word. I won’t let my kids in the garden, I don't want them listening to that. Everybody is absolutely sick of it.”

Dad-of-one Chris Hasler, 46, added: “The lighting in the prison means it is never dark.

“If you get up in the middle of the night it's like it's daylight. The birds chirp throughout the night because they think it's dawn.”

HMP Fosse Way is the greenest prison ever built, thanks to eco fuels, renewable energy and electric construction machinery.

It replaced the former Glen Parva young offenders’ institute.

Serco, which runs the prison, said it had implemented "a number of measures" to address the complaints from residents.

A spokesperson said: “We remain committed to working with the local community to find suitable resolutions where possible."

Blaby District Council said they were also in contact with prison bosses.