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Horror pic shows bloodthirsty rat that tried to eat disabled pensioner as she slept
crazed rat which tried to eat disabled pensioner while she was asleep in her bed downstairs in her home.Husband John Kirk, 85, came downstairs to find wife Diana, 76, caked in blood, and her face and neck covered in claw and bite marks following the attack by the animal.The pensioner's eyelids, fingers and elbow had also been gnawed by the ravenous rodent which had been hiding in the couple's home in Bingham, Nottinghamshire.Unknown to the couple, the 9ins long animal had been nesting in their sideboard where John kept bird seed before savaging Diana in the early hours of Monday, May 9.The next morning the rat was caught in trap laid by a neighbour who shot it dead with a pellet gun.Retired tank driver John, who has been married to Diana for 36 years, said: “Diana’s injuries were horrific.“When I was in the army the fella in the next bed shot his brains out with a revolver but the mess that caused wasn’t as bad as this.“At first I thought Diana had been shot. “There was blood everywhere.