Inside rat-ravaged street where rodents 'the size of CATS' leave locals too scared to go out

RATS the "size of cats" have ravaged a British street – leaving locals too scared to leave their homes.

Terrified Derby residents are being plagued by the fearless 14-inch rodents – with locals even telling how they have defended themselves from the "fearless" pests with planks of wood.



Unassuming Whiston Street and Oak Street in Derby have been ravaged by vermin after becoming a dumping ground for brazen fly-tippers.

Jackie Titterton, 66, told the Sun Online, how locals in the area are blocking their drains in a bid to keep the rats out – and showed how she used a massive piece of wood to scare them off.

“I’m sick of living here. We are just overrun with rats and mice. It’s just getting worse," she said.

“The rats are the size of cats – they’re huge. I was looking through the window and I saw a rat drag an entire pizza down to a manhole.

"No-one is listening to us. We need help.”

Begging Sun Online for help in shaming council chiefs into action, Shane McDuffus, 48, said: “It’s f***ing filthy around here. It’s disgusting.

“There are dozens of rats, they’re huge – their tails are ten inches long.

“The place is completely riddled. At night-time, they’ve everywhere. You wake up in the morning and there will be half a dozen dead in the road."

In just ten minutes of arriving onto Whiston Street street, 12 rats were spotted including one scurrying into a homeowner’s cellar.

Rats and mice were also seen scampering among garbage-strewn green areas and one rat was even spotted facing off with a pigeon.

Pal Michael Walsh, 44, added: “It’s a s***hole. I’ve lived here all my life. In the last 15 years it’s deteriorated into a dump.

“Nobody uses the skips, they use the street. My mum has lived here all her life and she’s thinking of selling up and going.

“It will only get worse around here unless the council does something.”

Locals today told how gruesome footage showing a rat and a crow facing off for food was just the tip of the iceberg – and how they use planks of wood to bat away the pests.

Yesterday, footage emerged of the crow and the huge rat having a fight on Whiston Street.

Locals say the vermin are “fearless” – and act as if they are in charge.


Aneka Buctkaur explained that she fears going outside saying: "They are completely fearless.

"It’s like they’re in charge. They’re not bothered at all."

Aneka’s aunt Aruna, 50, has lived in Oak Street for her entire life.

She said the pandemic had made fly tipping in the area much worse.

"People are driving into the area and dumping their rubbish," she said.

"I’m sick of it, to be honest.

"By the end of the week, the rubbish is piled high. The council needs to put cameras up and get a grip on it.”

Shopkeeper Jas Rattu, whose phone store backs onto Whiston Street, blames the fly-tipping for the rat infestation.

“People are dumping their rubbish everywhere," he said.

"There are lots of takeaways not using their bins. They are just dumping their waste on the street.

“By the end of the week all the rubbish stacks up and the rats come out.”


Whiston Street and Oak Street sit in one of Derby’s most crime-ridden zones.

According to police statistics, the area is blighted by drugs, theft and fly-tipping.

The area it sits in, Rose Hill, saw 301 crimes reported during April 2021 – the most recent data available – with antisocial behaviour and violent and sexual offences the most common.

This compares to 179 in neighbouring Sinfin and Osmaston, and 262 in Derby city centre.

A spokesperson for Derby City Council said: "Derby City Council StreetPride team has not received any reports or complaints in relation to
these streets in 2021.

"However, this area is a known hotspot that is regularly visited by our
officers and our Public Protection team have issued a number of FPN’s for fly-tipping offences on Oak Street and Whiston Street over the last 6 months.

"The team will revisit the area again and take the necessary action to investigate the fly-tipping for evidence of culpability and then arrange for any waste on public land to be removed.

"Any fly-tipping on private property requires us to serve a notice to the landowners or them to remove the waste.

"The Council offers a chargeable Pest Control service to residents and landlords on request, advice can be given to residents around prevention and treatment of pest issues.

"Our Environmental services and StreetPride team rely on incidents of fly-tipping being reported for us to take immediate action.

"We take fly-tipping very seriously and anyone who chooses to blight our city and is caught can expect to be issued with a fixed penalty notice or prosecuted."

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