AGE Concern has slammed the sentence given to a 13-year-old drunken thug who left a disabled pensioner in a pool of blood in her Southampton home.

As exclusively reported in yesterday’s Daily Echo, 67-year-old Frederika Ogborn was brutally attacked with punches, kicks and a knife.

The boy, who admitted burglary and wounding, could not be locked up for the vicious attack because he was too young as he was under 14 at the time of the offence.

At Southampton Crown Court he was given a three-year supervision order. During that period he must live with his sister and not return to Hampshire.

He must also observe a 12-week curfew.

Despite the brutality of the attack, Judge Derwin Hope refused to lift the ban that protects the thug from being named.

Mrs Ogborn, who suffers from severe arthritis and uses a walking frame said she thought she was going to die in the attack and has called for a change in the law. Her plea has been echoed by Age Concern A charity spokesman said: “The punishment should fit the crime. Our aim is to see that all pensioners are kept safe and secure in their homes. There should be a change in the law that gives judges the power to pass a sentence which fits the crime.”

Help the Aged also said it was ludicrous that the sentence was so light for such a vicious crime.

Mrs Ogborn said it was only her necklace care alarm being triggered off during the frenzied attack that saved her life.

In a victim impact statement read out to the court Mrs Ogborn said the attack had changed her life describing how she continued to see her attacker’s face “all the time” and that her “life has not been the same.”