Neighbours on a Beeston estate said they spent months living in fear, alongside '24/7' drug dealing and prostitution, before police declared a problem property off limits this week.
The house in question, 29 Malvern Rise, has been boarded up by Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police will arrest anyone who sets foot inside for the next three months.
One woman living in a nearby house, who did not want to be named, said: "It was becoming scary. When I moved here it was a nice area and it was very quiet but then these things started at the end of last year.
