Badgers have kept me prisoner in my mouldy home for 12 years

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A woman says she has been made a prisoner in her own home - because of BADGERS.  Rae Boxley, 51, lives with spinal myelopathy, which leaves her at risk of fatal injury from even a gentle fall. She can't even use her garden as badger activity has left the surface uneven.  Dudley Council said it had investigated but, as badgers are protected by law, its options are "very limited".

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00:00I'm Ray, I'm 52, I live in Stourbridge and for the past six years I've been living and sleeping in one room.

00:09I sleep on this settee, I've got spinal damage and I've been sleeping sitting up for six years because I can't use my bedroom anymore.

00:19This is my once lovely back garden, it's been completely ruined.

00:25Furniture that I've never been able to use and there's a ditch, a seven foot ditch all along and that's where they're coming out.

00:36It's absolute hell and I can't stand it, I've even spent a month sleeping in the car because I couldn't bear to be in the living room.

00:45Dudley Council are negligent on all counts, they just won't listen to me.

00:51They've done nothing to help me and they just don't care.

00:56It's dirty, I can't breathe, I keep getting sinus infections, I have to go to my mum's to wash, to eat.

01:05I have to keep my clothes at my mum's, I can't keep anything here because it goes mouldy.

01:10It's just basically a place for me to sleep in because it's not living, I don't live here, I just want a home.

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