A DISABLED woman has been driven from her home by pint-sized thugs who waged a year-long terror campaign against her young family.

Alyson Cole, 34, lived in fear with her three children aged just nine, 11 and 12, in Rochester Way, Eltham, before they were forced to flee in fear.

Her case is all the more shocking because among the teenagers persecuting her family were youngsters aged just eight and 11.

A catalogue of break-ins, car fires and threats against her children culminated in a burglary in August.

Her mothers ashes were strewn across the floor, photographs burned and abuse sprayed across the walls of her front room.

Alyson, who is forced to walk with a stick and suffers from agoraphobia, made the agonising decision to vacate her three-bedroom flat and her children now live with their father in Lewisham.

She has relied on the kindness of friends for a roof over her head.

Police investigating the catalogue of abuse arrested and charged an 11-year-old who was later discharged from the Inner London Crown Court due to a technical fault. Alyson is too terrified to go back to her home even though she risks losing it and making herself intentionally homeless.

Greenwich Council has already re-housed Alyson four times due to the harassment she has suffered. She is prepared to live anywhere to escape the abuse.

She said: The council told me to go to the homeless persons unit, but they cant help because I have a tenancy but I am not going back there for the sake of my children.

Once I found my little girl filling up a bucket with water. She left it underneath the letterbox by the front door. She said: I do not want anyone burning my house down.

Greenwich Council emphasised it was extremely sympathetic to Alysons predicament.

A spokesman said: Additional information from Mrs Gordon has led the council to review the case again and we should have a response for her by the end of the week.

Greenwich police spokesman PC Chris Bethel said: There are allegations of crime made, we investigated it, arrests were made and it was sent to the youth court. For some reason it has seen fit to throw out the case due, it seems, to some technicality.