'Rat plagued' family beg council to find them a new home

A "RAT PLAGUED" family is begging a North Wales council to find them a new home. A mother-of-two from Brynteg says her children have been traumatised after suffering plagues of rats for nine years.

- By ALEC DOYLE Local Democracy Reporter

A rat captured trying to get bait from a trap at a home in Wrexham which has suffered with vermin for nine years

The resident - who wished to remain anonymous - is a tenant of the council along with her two children, one of whom has autism.

She says that the problem of rats has remained constant for almost a decade and Wrexham Council has let her and her family down by failing to eradicate the problem or find them a suitable new home to live in.

"They are a joke," she said. "The kids are traumatised by the whole thing. It is hell and I don't want to come home anymore.

"We've had them coming out from the kitchen cupboards and out from under the bath. Neither of the kids will use the bathroom any more, they go to the toilet in a bucket because they're so scared the rats will come out."

She says they go above and beyond to keep the property clean and tidy but says there must be a colony nearby which has made her home part of its territory.

"It's been happening on-and-off for nine years," she said. "I've spoken to the previous tenant here too and she says she had the same problem.

"But the council won't have it that there is a problem."

She says there isn't a part of the house that has been unaffected.