A PENSIONER has been left terrified because the schoolboy thug who savagely attacked her has returned to her community – and is living just minutes from her home.

Frederika Ogborn was kicked and punched and left thinking she would die on her lounge floor after the 13-year-old, who was armed with a knife, burst into her house.

The brutal attack happened five years ago but the yob was spared prison by a judge because he was too young – and instead he was ordered to move away.

But now the teenager has moved back, leaving 72-year-old Frederika – known as Freddy – scared and unable to sleep.

Her attacker, now thought to be aged 18, has been seen by several residents living in Shirley Warren, where the vicious assault took place.

What happened is etched in the memory of Mrs Ogborn who suffered repeated blows to her head and stomach and was left in a pool of blood by the boy.

At the time, the Daily Echo told how Frederika had recited the Lord’s Prayer as she cowered on the floor during the frenzied attack carried out by the teenager after he drank a bottle of wine.

Judge Derwin Hope, who dealt with the case, said had the youth been just a few months older he would have been facing a lengthy prison sentence.

Instead he was given a supervision order which meant he was banned from living in Hampshire for three years.

But Frederika has since learned that he has returned to a property just five minutes’ walk from her Shirley Warren home and is now suffering sleepless nights.

She described being “frightened” since she found out that he had moved back to the area and is considering moving away.

She said: “He’s moved just down the road. It’s frightening me. He’s living just five minutes from where I live.

“I’m awake in the middle of the night just thinking about it. I don’t know what he’s going to do if he sees me. I can’t go round the shop in case he’s there.

“People say to me ‘just ignore him’, but I say ‘you just don’t understand what he’s done to me’. I don’t want him to see me.”

At the time of his sentencing in June 2009, prosecutor Siobhan Linsley told Southampton Crown Court that as the yob rained down blows, Frederika, who uses a walking frame and has severe arthritis, struggled to her knees but was floored again.

Ms Linsley described how he smashed ornaments and plates on the floor while demanding the pensioner's bank card pin number. He also threatened to kill her dogs.

She said the ordeal seemed to “go on for hours and at one stage Frederika pretended she was unconscious in the hope the attack might stop.

The vicious beating and the subsequent sentence handed to Frederika’s attacker sparked outrage in Hampshire at the time.

Robbie Robinson, the chairman of the Southampton Pensioners’ Forum today said he should not be allowed to return.

He said: “The poor lady must be out of her wits – I know I would be. Somebody should step in and tell him to move across the city.

“I would say that he should be moved. My heart goes to out to her.”