Pensioner attacked by rats

2022 - 5 - 18

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Disabled woman attacked by rat as she slept (The Independent)

John Kirk, 85, woke up one morning to find his wife Diana covered in bites and claw marks following the rodent's attack. The pensioner's eyelids, ...

“It was like a scene from Rambo. Absolutely horrific. The rat had tried to eat her to get to her blood. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “Diana had obviously been attacked in the night because the blood had congealed and had gone black. There were bite marks on her cheek and her lips. “I’d put seeds and peanuts out for the birds in the garden and kept bags of bird food in the sideboard in the living room.

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Disabled woman so savagely attacked by rat her husband thought ... (Accrington Observer)

John Kirk, 85, came downstairs to find wife Diana, 76, caked in blood and her face and neck covered in claw and bite marks. The pensioner's eyelids, fingers and ...

John called an ambulance and Diana was rushed to the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham where she was cleaned up and given a powerful course of antibiotics. He said: “We had a rat in the house before Christmas which the council came and got rid of and I’d thought that was that. The night Diana was attacked I’d gone to bed about 10.20pm and had heard scratching behind the TV but didn’t think too much about it. “At about 1.30am in the morning I noticed something brush past my bed but fell back to sleep. The rat had tried to eat her to get to her blood. The next morning the rat was caught in trap laid by a neighbour who shot it dead with a pellet gun.

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