A Cambridge single mum is having to sleep downstairs because of her noisy lodgers – 300 bats in the attic.

Lesley Cronin, 39, can’t even get rid of the bats as they are a protected species, reports the Daily Mirror.

She said: “They have more rights to my home than I do. In this case, the humans don’t have any rights at all.”

Lesley, a paramedic with two children, was driven crazy by the scratching of 180 adults and their babies in the loft and wall cavities of her home in Lode.

The house stank of bat droppings and the noise became so intolerable that she had to sleep on cushions in her lounge.

She added: “There were bat droppings coming out from the skirtings in the end. It was foul.”

Builders are due to remove all the plaster in her kitchen to get rid of the bat debris.

Meanwhile, Natural England, which keeps an eye on protected bats, has put a bat box on the side of the house.

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