The couple’s once peaceful abode in Worcester has become a battleground against an infestation that’s been tormenting them since last December, leaving them frazzled and deprived of sleep

Andy Roberts is afraid to use his toilet in Kempsey after he came face-to-face with a rat (Image: Jan Jarvis / SWNS)

A couple who were terrorised by a relentless rat invasion in their home even had their toes nibbled as they slept.

Andy Roberts, 56, and his partner Rosie Glazzard, 53, have been left frightened to use their own loo after spotting a rat doing the backstroke in the toilet bowl. And Andy even woke up to find one of the pests had chomped on his big toe, whereas Rosie has endured bites on her foot and even her rear end.

Their once peaceful abode in Bannut Hill, Kempsey, Worcester, where they’ve lived for 30 years, has become a battleground against an infestation that’s been tormenting them since last December, leaving them frazzled and deprived of sleep.

Andy even woke up to find one of the pests had chomped on his big toe (Image: Worcester News / SWNS)
Disturbing snaps shared by the couple reveal heaps of rodent poop lurking beneath their bath, while footage captures a brazen rat taking a dip in their bog. The rats have even taken to gnawing on the couple’s couch and floorboards, with even their freezer wires not escaping the fray, having been chewed to bits.

Their kitchen hasnt escaped the onslaught, either. It shows signs of attempted break-ins with claw and bite marks scandalising food cans. However, despite pest controllers deploying poison-laced countermeasures, Andy is distressed by the lack of progress.

The rats have even taken to gnawing on the couple’s couch and floorboards (Image: Jan Jarvis / SWNS)
For Rosie, who struggles with mental health issues, the rat raids are particularly brutal. She confessed: “I’ve been bitten three times. I was bitten last night on the bum and bitten on the toe the night before.”

The beleaguered pair first caught onto their vermin issue just prior to the festive season and reached out to Malvern Hills District Council for help. Andy, a resident of a maisonette owned by Platform Housing, expressed his distress over a rat infestation in their home.

He said: “We have asked the council to move us. We should not be living here with rats. I can’t stay here tonight. We need somewhere else to go. When Rosie was asleep there was a rat on the back of the settee. It was there for a few seconds, looking at me.

The beleaguered pair first caught onto their vermin issue just prior to the festive season (Image: Worcester News / SWNS)
“I could not believe my eyes when I saw one in the toilet bowl. I felt a bit sick. It was a baby rat. Our neighbour Jan Jarvis came out and killed it. I didn’t have the nerve to do it.

“We just don’t seem to be getting nothing done quickly enough to get rid of the rats. How much longer have we got to stay in here with this rat problem?”