A caregiver who lives in a rat-infested house says rodents chew through their clothes, destroy furniture and shred important documents.
Louise Plunkett, 34, sleeps on her sofa with the rest of her files and washes in the sink while hundreds of fresh rodent droppings and urine appear in the bathtub every morning, reports MyLondon.
Her stove is also routinely covered in the same bugs, and she slammed her home owner’s £ 25 compensation because “our service has been neglected in the past.”
Louise from Mitcham, South London said, “Going to work and not being clean. Having no water to drink You realize what you did to me. I just don’t have a life. This is not a life that I can live.
Louise Plunkett in her rodent-ridden apartment
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“I’ve been sleeping on a sofa in my own home for nine months. My grandma and my mother died. They took away my human rights and dehumanized me. That’s all I have left.”
The stress of her life situation made Louise feel that she was “not really grieving” for her former NHS nurse mother and grandmother.
The amount of feces on the property is so out of control that Louise has to store her food on tall shelves away from kitchen cabinets.
Louise washes herself in the sink because her bathtub is always filled with rodent droppings
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But life with rodents has become a “deaf” encounter for Louise, whose “inhuman” living conditions and the ongoing struggle with her housing association Clarion Housing are slowly robbing her of everything she owns.
Louise is now taking legal action against Clarion and an investigation is ongoing. As promised in the past, she would like to be placed in a new property.
Louise, a caregiver, is one of 350,000 people in the UK who live in a Clarion-managed home that has 125,000 properties in more than 170 local authorities.
Her hearth is also regularly covered with vermin dirt
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Clarion claims it has been communicating with Louise weekly since February, but she says it hasn’t.
A spokesman said: “We apologized to the resident and paid compensation for failing to perform in the past.”
But Louise denies that she even received an apology, saying that she believes compensation has appeared on her account since speaking to My London, only £ 25.
However, she does not want to accept this, she says, and it is “too short”.
Louise says the home owner’s compensation of £ 25 is “way too short”
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Louise says her fond memories of her childhood home at Gladstone House, Mitcham, have now been shattered.
When she was eight, she moved into the estate with her mother and grandmother for £ 575 a month.
Her mother came to the UK from Jamaica in the 1970s to work as a nurse for the NHS.
Louise claims the problems with the property have existed for more than 10 years
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Shortly after her grandmother’s death in 2009, Louise said the Merton Council sold the property to Clarion.
Louise claims that was when she ran into problems with the property.
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