A MUM labelled the ‘Pied Piper’ whose house was a den for teenagers to use drugs and drink alcohol has avoided jail – for now.

Officers armed with a battering ram raided 47-year-old Judith Ogden’s rented home on Forshaw Street on Thursday after receiving reports from terrorised neighbours of feral alcohol and drug-fuelled youths fighting with knives in their street, threatening to petrol bomb homes and urinating through letter boxes.

Next door neighbour Steve Ryan was among a group of residents, including young mums and pensioners, who gathered in their formerly quiet road to watch Ogden being arrested.

Forty-nine-year-old Mr Ryan said: “It has been the neighbourhood from hell for the past seven months – the anti-social behaviour, the drugs, the alcohol, the under age people allowed in and drinking. And once they have had a skinful they spill out on to the street and then it’s violence and vandalism.

“When you challenge them all you get is abuse. I have been threatened with being beaten up and for my house to be torched. They have urinated on my car, on my bike and through my letter box – the violence that has gone on here has been unbelievable.

“I have not had a full night’s sleep for more than seven months and the stench has been terrible from the backyard because they urinate out of the back door and leave piles of decaying rubbish there.

“The night after they moved in, there was a police van outside because they had people threatening to kill them – it’s been like that from day one.”

A 36-year-old woman too scared to be named added: “I have never known anything like it. We call her the Pied Piper because she attracts all the kids and there can be gangs of up to 30 of them from the age of 13 there at any time.

“It’s like an unauthorised youth club and they are getting off their heads on drink and drugs, fighting and threatening to stab each other.

“They put Shameless to shame and it’s worse than Jeremy Kyle. This used to be a lovely street but people are too scared to come out of their doors.”