Single mum forced to consume seven years in home infested with slugs and mildew

Single mum Jessica Sparrow-Lewis says and her younger family appreciate spent seven years in home infested with mildew and SLUGS.

Jessica, 29, acknowledged her rented dwelling is crammed with damp, gloomy mildew and uncovered wiring that has been deemed a “menace to lifestyles”.

One amongst the rooms is so frigid it’s some distance virtually uninhabitable, with Jessica’s children Freya, nine, Alfie, six, and Arlo, one, are sharing one bedroom.

The bathe room has slugs on the wall, and the creatures appreciate been found interior cereal boxes and all the design through the families’ sneakers.

But Jessica, who is on housing serve, claims she is ‘trapped’ within the property in Tredworth, Glos as she is struggling to receive one other non-public home to reside in.

She says if she moves herself out into a B&B she can be able to be termed ‘deliberately homeless’ and now no more eligible for council support.

The mum-of-three acknowledged: “The disgusting and unpleasant dispute of my dwelling is causing me to feel love I’m trapped and I don’t stumble on a system out.

“My mental health is suffering to the level that I’m feeling suicidal and I now will need to appreciate counselling.

“I believe love I’m now now not ready to give my children the receive, warm and smooth home that they deserve.

“I appreciate to enact one thing earlier than I fetch to some extent where my children might perchance maybe very successfully be removed from me attributable to your total strain this dwelling is placing on me.”

Her worthy distress is the kids’s health – after 14-month-old faculty Arlo used to be hospitalised with a chest infection in December 2016.

Jessica has been renting her home at £580 per month since April 2011, and the rising damp and mildew has persisted for years, notably in her kitchen and lavatory.

Jessica now says her oven has now now not worked since October 2016, that design she is forced to cook her children’s meals on a tenting range.

Gloucester Council acknowledged: “We’ve been working with the tenant and the landlord to ensure the repairs are made urgently.”