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A distraught mother who has had to move into a hotel after teenagers trashed her house during a wild "Skins" party advertised on her daughter's MySpace website said today her home had been "raped".

The 48-year-old mother of four returned from a short caravan break to find her £230,000 detached home ruined.

Her shamed daughter is now staying with friends for a "cooling-off" period.

The pair have spoken about the wild Easter Monday party but the 17-year-old sixth-former is lying low while her parents come to terms with the incident.

The mother, who has asked not to be named, said her last words to her daughter before she went away were: "I don't want any kids or drink in the house."

She said: "It's worse than a burglary, I can't believe it.

"Whoever has come in here are worse than animals. It's like house rape.

"They've been sick everywhere, urinated and trashed the house.

"It will take a month for it to be professionally cleaned and we are having to stay in temporary accommodation."

The mother and her three other children have been staying with friends and relatives but are moving to a hotel today until rented accommodation can be found for up to a month.

The party had appeared on the girl's website labelled Easter Monday Bash Skins Unofficial Party - a reference to the controversial Channel 4 series which featured scenes where a teenage get-together got out of hand.

It was subtitled "Let's trash the average family-sized house disco party".

The mother said her daughter denied posting that message, but admitted arranging a party for a smaller number of people.

She added: "She is adamant she did not create that message but the point is that she should never have arranged a party in the first place.

"She said someone hacked or changed the message and that has got to be sorted out and that person found."

Despite expecting about 30 or 40 people to attend the bash, more than 200 teenagers from across the country descended on the quiet cul-de-sac and caused mayhem on the upmarket County Durham housing estate.

At one point, scores of teenagers fled across nearby fields when neighbours alerted police about the racket and a convoy of police cars, including a dog unit, raced into the estate as neighbours appealed for calm.

One neighbour ran out wielding a golf club to chase the drunken youths out of the cul-de-sac.

Every rooom in the detached brick home, in Chipchase Court, Woodstone Village, in County Durham, had been ransacked, with clothes, furniture and bedding ruined and strewn across the rooms.

The devastated mother's wedding dress had also been pulled from a wardrobe and urinated on.

Revellers vomited in plastic buckets and left them in rooms while lager cans and cigarette ends were littered throughout the house.

The girl's 48-year-old father said: "The wedding dress had been hanging up for 20 years and it's been pulled out and urinated on.

"They've pulled light fittings from the ceiling and I can't believe someone would come in and do something like this.

"There's cigarette burns on furniture and mattresses and it's a wonder they haven't burnt the house down."

One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: "There were hundreds of kids piling out of cars and minibuses.

"This is a quiet street. If there had been 15 or 20 kids, I would have been shocked but when there's that many and you see somebody getting out of a taxi with a suitcase full of alcohol, it sets the alarm bells ringing."

Neighbour Morc Coulson, 45, said today: "I could not believe what I was seeing.

"I went out with a golf club trying to get them away but they were climbing over fences and scrambling over fields.

"It is the last thing you would expect somewhere like this."

A spokesman for Durham Police said the trouble was difficult to contain as the guests had been invited into the house but the incident would be investigated.

"We were called to the house on Monday night after reports of trouble at a private party.

"There has been a formal complaint from the owners of criminal damage to the interior and fixtures and fittings.

"Inquiries are under way and we plan to speak in due course to as many of the party-goers as we can."

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