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A disabled elderly woman had to be taken to hospital after a rat viciously attacked her face while she slept, her husband said.
Diana Kirk was left with shocking injuries after she was discovered covered in her own blood at 5.45am on Monday, May 9 at their home in Ringwood Road in Bingham.
The 76-year-old is unable to move as she has brain damage, she is looked after for by her husband John Kirk, 85, along with a care team who come into their house to help out.
She sleeps downstairs in a hospital bed while Mr Kirk sleeps upstairs.
He said he woke when he first heard a rat 'scratching around' by his feet, saying he could not see it well given how dark it was but that it was clearly a large rodent.
Then, at around 1.30am, he noticed it again, before he fell asleep and woke up as normal just before 6am.
When he went downstairs and checked on his wife in their living room, he then saw her covered in blood and small bites marks across her face.
He
