SNEERING as she flicks a V-sign with her fingers, she thinks she is untouchable.

For two years, she has taunted a residential estate; her behaviour so bad it drove 15 families from their homes.

But yesterday, 17-year-old Colleen McDonald was put behind bars for Christmas.

It follows a campaign of burglary, vandalism and disorder that has resulted in her being arrested 48 times.

Her antics led to her family being evicted from their council house on the Newbiggin Hall Estate, Newcastle.

She was jailed for eight months for breaching an order banning her from the streets where she tormented residents.

Many of her victims have been so shaken they have sought counselling.

McDonald was able to be named after a court ruling banning her name from being published was overturned.

Victims and police told of their relief as she was given a two-year anti-social behaviour order.

PC Hayley Douglass, of Newcastle, said: "Colleen has terrorised her neighbourhood with her anti-social behaviour and criminal activity."

McDonald's crimes have included an unprovoked attack on an innocent girl and vandal-ism of her local community centre.

She has smashed up a neighbour's car and even burgled one family while they were moving house.