Rebecca West with her son Oscar, 17 months, and partner Daniel Bodally (Picture: SWNS)

A family is currently being terrorised by a nest of snakes living under their floorboards.

It may sound like a B-horror movie, but the frightening scenario is actually real for Rebecca West, 23, her partner Daniel Bodally, 31, and their 17-month-old son Oscar.

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One of the snakes has already bitten Mr Bodally after he tried to catch it and Ms West now fears they may attack her son.

‘I am worried they will get into my son’s cot and am constantly watching him,’ she said, speaking from her home in Harehills, Leeds.


‘I don’t think they are poisonous, or my partner would have lost his finger by now.



‘But they are three or four feet long and they are still constricting – if they feel endangered they will suffocate their prey.’

Snake skin in Rebecca West’s home (Picture: SWNS)

Rebecca West has been forced to rip floor boards up (Picture: SWNS)

She said they had found a nest under the bath and there were a lot of babies growing.

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The unwelcom residents are thought to be North American cornsnakes and Ms West described them as being red and black in colour.

She added: ‘I had heard a one-off scratch before but I thought it was probably a mouse and it would go.

‘Then we found a snakeskin and started investigating.’

A North American cornsnake (Picture: Getty Images)

Ms West said her landlord had given her a pair of litter pickers and a box to put the reptiles in but had not helped to remove the snakes.

She has also asked Leeds City Council and the RSPCA for help but both organisations have apparently said they cannot do anything because she lives in a private property.

Ms West and her partner Mr Bodally have been forced to rip up the floorboards so their house is now ‘an absolute bombsite’.

She has pleaded with the council to move her and fears she will be forced to catch the snakes herself.

Metro.co.uk has contacted RPSCA and Leeds City Council for a comment.