This is the moment rodents chewed through a woman's ceiling in the middle of the night.

Claire Johnson, 31, has been living in her flat in Bermondsey, London, for two years after moving from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

On Sunday, Claire was lying awake at 3 am, just as she had for the past eight months as the rodents ran amuck in her walls.

But suddenly Claire and her boyfriend Louis, 32, who was staying with her that night, noticed a different noise.

The turned on the lights and to their horror they discovered that the suspected rats had chewed through the plasterboard and created a hole above the bed.

The pair quickly gathered some cardboard and duct tape to make a temporary seal for the hole.

The couple were unable to go back to sleep and had pest control come the following day.

Claire, a clinical nutritionist, said: "It has all been really traumatising."

"The pest control guy was saying they couldn't believe something hadn't been done sooner."

"He said he's seen people's mental health be ruined by ongoing situations like this and I have certainly felt affected."

"Living with sleepless nights over the past eight months has been bad enough."

"But now knowing that these rodents have easy access inside my home is just too much."

Claire has been enduring sleepless nights for nearly eight months due to the sound of rodents scuttling in her bedroom walls.

She has heard what she assumes to be mice running through her walls since January 2024.

But the noise has been significantly louder and more frequent since May - leading Claire to believe it may be rats.

Claire said: "My landlord has been really responsive on the issue, even assuring me I won't have to pay rent for the time I'm not staying in the flat after this incident."

"I can hear them running across the beams of the ceiling at night and sometimes they will bump into each other in the walls and start fighting."

"I will regularly sleep on my pull-out sofa bed in the living room for a bit of peace as the noise is generally at its worst in the bedroom."

Pest control placed poison in the ceiling through the hole and aim to return in two weeks to check on the rodents.