A woman has described how she ended up living in a shipping container for three months after her flat became infested with rats. Tia Henderson, 20, has spent the past five months sofa surfing and resorted to sleeping in a shipping container and her friends' car after the rodents took over.
Tia, who was in foster care until she turned 18, has been living in her ground floor housing association apartment for two years and says she was happy there until July of this year. She lives in the one-bedroom flat, managed by Great Places Oldham, with her dog and best friend Tiny.
But, in summer, the 20-year-old heard noises in her wall that left her convinced she was 'going crazy'. Then, one day, as she was sitting on the sofa, she noticed two of the rodents walking around her kitchen. Tia says that she immediately called pest control, and that when a professional eventually came out to see her to put poison down, he informed her there was likely a 'big infestation'.
