Staff spotted Mr Ketley stumbling around a corridor with the rat hanging from his neck by its teeth and nurses knocked it off and killed it. Hospital officials said it was a field mouse.Ah, yes, the well-known man-eating field mouse…
But his mother Pat Boardman told the Mirror: "That's an outrageous claim. He had large, open bite marks.The field mouse, I guess you mean? If you know what's good for you....
"I'm appalled that this sort of thing could happen to my son in an NHS hospital in this day and age.
"He was completely helpless and terrified. It's a disgrace. He was very scared and the staff had to show him they had killed the rat to prove it could no longer hurt him."
