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Benjamin Roberts-Haslam & Stephanie Wareham

Family's despair as rat appears in kitchen while dad cooks for his son

A frustrated father has told how a rat appeared next to him in the kitchen as he cooked for his young son - the latest in a string of horrifying incidents the family has had to endure in their home. Jamie Burns, his girlfriend Quiana Evans and their son Ziyah have been plagued with rodents and mould problems on and off over the past two years since they moved into their home in Bootle.

Jamie, 26, says they have come to the end of their tether because despite reporting the issues to their housing provider, they are still having issues. The couple applied to move into their current home when they found out Quiana was pregnant, and they moved in in March 2021, when their son was a couple of months old so he could have his own room.

But the problems started soon after, with Jamie and Quiana, 25, noticing rat droppings in April that year. Pest control were called out but they didn't find any rats, the Liverpool ECHO reports.

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