FAMILY SLEEPING OUTSIDE AFTER RATS 'JUMP OUT OF TOILET'

A FAMILY with two young children say they have been forced to sleep in the garden after rats started jumping out of their toilet.

- ISOBEL WILLIAMS

John Evans, 47, says the rodents began crawling up the drainpipes and jumping out of the loo at his home in Trelogan, Flintshire, 18 months ago.

The dad-of-six says the garden of his council home began flooding with sewage, and ever since there have been multiple rat infestations.

John first noticed the intruders in the middle of the night when one jumped at his backside while he was sitting on the toilet.

The ordeal has left his whole family feeling terrified - especially the three of his children who live with him aged three, five and 18.

The household have since been going to the toilet in a bucket, and have tried putting a bag of stones in the toilet bowl to stop rats crawling in.

John said: "I opened the toilet seat at 3am and everything was fine, and then something jumped at my bottom.

"It was trying to escape through the back part of the toilet.

"I jumped off screaming like a little girl.

"I couldn't see what it was, and I put the lid down straight away.

"Then I realised it was a rat swimming around.

"We had four consecutive days with rats jumping out the toilet.