A PENSIONER today urged Home Secretary Jack Straw to prevent the early release of two thugs whose savage attack on her shocked the nation.

Madge Larose was lucky to survive after being attacked in bed by teenagers who escaped from a social services registered home. They broke into her bungalow in Marple and smashed a brick into her face as she slept. They stole jewellery and daubed walls with obscene graffiti and a chilling warning - "I'll be back".

Today, on the second anniversary of the brutal attack, it has been revealed both boys could be free next year. Lee Rider and Matthew Bramhall escaped the home in Cheshire where they had been placed by Yorkshire social services.

Their attack left Madge with a broken nose, a fractured cheekbone and severe bruising. Madge, 79, has been left blind in her right eye. She suffers severe headaches, has a limp and remains under the care of a psychiatrist because of terrifying flashbacks and nightmares and is on anti-depressants.

Bramhall, now 16, is eligible for release in April from Swinford Hall, a young offenders' institution in Staffordshire. He will have served just two years and nine months of an original seven-year detention. The sentence was reduced to five years and six months on appeal.

Rider, 15, who played a lesser part in the attack, will be eligible for parole six months later. Racked with guilt, he decided not to appeal against a six-and-half-year detention.

"I'm determined that these thugs should serve their sentences, especially Bramhall because he's the real villain. They could do it again," Madge said. "Bramhall's not fit to walk the streets. He's evil."

Addressing Mr Straw, she added: "I think you're a good man but you're not firm enough with some of these villains. I would like to know what you are going to do about it. They should serve all their sentence."

Madge remains too ill to take a free holiday organised for her by the Manchester Evening News and Airtours.

She added: "Crime is increasing, especially attacks on old people. I'm not going to let Bramhall come out without a struggle. If I could get hold of a gun, I would shoot him, the world would be well rid of him.

"Sometimes I think 'my God, why didn't you die Madge? You would have been better off dead'. I'm angry and frustrated to think they will be out soon. Nobody has asked how I feel. These do-gooders seem more concerned with these boys."