London woman plagued by rodent noises in Bermondsey flat seeks peace

Claire Johnson, a 31 twelvemonth aged nutritionist, has been tormented by the incessant dependable of rodents scurrying successful her chamber walls, causing sleepless nights for astir 8 months.

Having moved to her Bermondsey level successful London 2 years agone from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, Claire started proceeding what she believed to beryllium mice since January 2024.

However, since May, the disturbances person grown louder and much regular, making Claire fishy a rat infestation.

The creatures look to beryllium astir progressive from 2 to 5 a. m.

, relentlessly disrupting Claire's rest.

Claire shared her distress, saying: "It's been truly hard to woody with."

She describes the cacophony of sounds astatine night: "I tin perceive them moving crossed the beams of the ceiling astatine nighttime and sometimes they volition bump into each different successful the walls and commencement fighting."

Claire initially thought mice were to blame, but the strength of the sound has led her to deliberation otherwise: "I thought they were mice initially but proceeding however dense and large they sound, I deliberation it mightiness really beryllium rats."

Mice are moving the walls (Image: SWNS)

Seeking tranquility, Claire often resorts to sleeping connected the pull-out sofa successful her surviving country arsenic the disturbance peaks successful the bedroom.

Sometimes, the sound adjacent sparks fearfulness of a break-in: "I sometimes adjacent interest idiosyncratic is picking the fastener connected my beforehand doorway earlier I realise it's really coming from the walls."

Her superior interest is to support the rodents retired of her surviving abstraction and region them from wrong the walls altogether.

Living adjacent the River Thames increases the likelihood of rodent problems, a situation Claire present faces head-on.

Claire's landlord took enactment against a pest occupation 5 weeks ago, mounting traps and sealing gaps.

However, the disturbance has lone intensified since then.

Claire has been near horrified (Image: SWNS)

Claire commented: "My landlord has been truly connected it with this issue."

"He is prepared to wage immoderate it costs, helium is ace apologetic and has reduced our rent."

Despite the archetypal involution by pest control, the racket has grown some louder and much persistent, prompting Claire and her landlord to research different options.

To flight the din, Claire has recovered herself often travelling to Hamburg, Germany, to spot her fellow oregon taking trips to Huddersfield for immoderate peace.

Claire explained: "I'm making up reasons to spell to Hamburg truthful I get a interruption from the noise."

"I person besides visited my parents up northbound for a week oregon truthful conscionable truthful I tin guarantee I get immoderate bully slumber in."

"I truly similar surviving successful London and I moved present to further my vocation arsenic a nutritionist."

"But I don't cognize if I tin woody with surviving successful this level overmuch longer if this continues."