The mother of Charleen Goodey has told how drugs transformed her "loving and bubbly" daughter into an angry teenager with no goals in life.

Charleen, 18, known as "Char", died when she was struck by a car in Halifax Road, Bradford, in April 1999.

Coroner Roger Whittaker recorded an accident verdict, saying factors in her death were alcohol and amphetamines.

But Charleen's mother Lesley, speaking for the first time since her death, said her daughter was not a "druggie" but had got caught up with the wrong crowd while living in Woodside, near Buttershaw.

Lesley told how, in a desperate bid to stop her taking drugs, she even asked local drug dealers not to sell her amphetamines. And she said she did not blame three women jailed last week for supplying amphetamines on the Buttershaw estate, some of which were bought by a woman who gave them to Charleen on the night of her death.

Lesley, 40, said: "Charleen was just a normal teenager caught up in the farce of what they call recreational drugs.

"I'm not excusing her behaviour. I'm very strict about kids not doing drugs but she was only doing, sadly, what a lot of kids do in nightclubs today."

Lesley, pictured holding the casket containing her daughter's ashes, moved to Woodside in late 1995 with Charleen and her brother James after she divorced their father, Derek.

At first the children appeared to settle but then Lesley noticed a change in Charleen. She said: "It was in Woodside when the drugs problems started. Charleen was about 15 or 16. I just thought her black moods were because she was pre-menstrual. Charleen had never been in trouble with the police or anyone. She was always a hard worker at Buttershaw School and a good achiever.

"But when she came back from a weekend with her friends she'd been in a terrible mood, cross and abusive.

"She confessed she'd done amphetamines, or speed, and it just got worse.

"But just a couple of months before she died, Charleen went down to a project in Surrey to help care for terminally ill people.

"When she came back she was just oozing her old personality. She'd even applied to work in a residential home. Then three weeks before her death I became aware she had taken drugs again. She was back with the bad crowd from Woodside but every time I tried to talk with her we just started to argue."