‘Plague of mice infested my home before rats flooded the kitchen – we’re living in fear’

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A mum whose family is living in a rat-infested home that has stopped them using the kitchen has said her children are traumatised. Stephanie Hamilton, 37, claims her family first battled a plague of mice for years after moving into their flat in Islington, London, in 2016. But last year the mice problem was replaced by a scourge of rats, yet her housing association Peabody has refused to rehome her. Stephanie says the rats have flooded her kitchen by biting through pipes and forced her three children, aged 15, 12 and six, to abandon their bedroom. The hotel receptionist told Metro: ‘It is horrible. It is like living in fear. My kids are traumatised. ‘All they keep asking me us why