A brief but telling story from the 9th May 1997 Derry Journal. Rats get a bad deal and in my opinion are unfairly regarded as disease carrying vermin. AW of course made white phosphorus for this market with the chemical being used in poison baits. I’m not sure why this banned material would have been used in the story from 1997 however as the use was now widely illegal having been outlawed in 1963.
A dream home was allegedly burnt down when a rat that had swallowed p4 laced poison set a thatched roof on fire. No sympathy from me.
