The owner of a jazz club in Alhendín, Granada, is to spend two and a half years behind bars and his establishment permanently closed down for 12 years of excessive noise.

The owner of a jazz club in Alhendín, Granada, is to spend two and a half years behind bars and his establishment permanently closed down for 12 years of excessive noise.

José Luis Sánchez Rodríguez, who owns the jazz club ‘El Secadero’, which EFE reports was known to jazz lovers across Andalucía, must also pay out total compensation of 27,000 € to the locals who were affected by the noise from the club.

The Granada provincial court said in its ruling made public this Wednesday that the noise levels coming from the establishment since it opened in 1994, put residents of the nearby El Álamo Urbanisation at ‘serious risk’. They suffered ‘insomnia, were irritable, and it affected their performance at work’.

It’s understood that a court ordered a provisional closure order in 2008.

The club’s live performances were generally at weekends, but many groups also used the establishment for rehearsals during the week, usually starting their sessions no earlier than midnight. EFE reports that there were no noise limiters on El Secadero’s audio equipment.