A mum claims their home is being terrorised by hordes of rats after their 'nightmare neighbours' used their garden as a 'dumping ground' - with the rodents even 'killing her dog'. Nicola Green first noticed a rat 'poke its head out' from under her fence in November last year, as she says months of her neighbours 'chucking' rubbish in their garden had created mounds of waste.
But the 34-year-old claims that now the rats have taken over her garden too and are terrorising all the surrounding homes - chewing through sheds and eating property. The care worker even believes the bacteria-carrying rats were the cause of her 14-year-old Jack Russell Jess' kidney failure, which led to her needing to be euthanised.
Meanwhile her children are now no longer able to play in the garden due to the infestation. Horrifying footage shows rats crawling around piles of trash bags and larger junk items - as one large rodent even relaxes on an abandoned mattress.
Nicola has since made numerous complaints to the landlord and environmental health, who she says failed to act for almost four months until she provided video evidence of the rodents. The council department were then forced to threaten the landlord with a fine if the waste wasn't cleared after the tenant repeatedly failed to clear the garden.
On Friday 25 February, the landlord finally cleared the mess but Nicola says the rats haven't been dealt with and are still running riot in gardens across the neighbourhood. Most confusingly, both Platform Housing association and Newark and Sherwood District Council advised the tenants to report the issue to the other, claiming the responsibility lies with the other party.
