Advertisement

Horrified Mum finds rotting mouse sewn inside her daughter's school skirt

Parents might expect to find a few sweet wrappers and soggy tissues buried in their child’s school uniform, but one mum was horrified to discover a dead mouse sewn into the lining of her daughter’s school skirt.

Natalie Kirkwood, 31, from Dunstable was growing increasingly worried about the pungent odour coming from her seven-year-old daughter Sofia’s school skirt.

On inspecting the grey skirt pleats, the mum-of-two noticed that one of them appeared to have something inside it.

After deciding to get to the bottom of the matter, Natalie and her partner Stuart, 34, cut open the pleat, while filming for evidence, and were horrified to discover a decomposing mouse inside.

A mum was horrified to find a decomposing mouse sewn into her daughter’s school skirt [Photo: SWNS]
A mum was horrified to find a decomposing mouse sewn into her daughter’s school skirt [Photo: SWNS]

“I felt disgusted when I found the rotting mouse inside the skirt,” Natalie says of the revolting discovery.

“My daughter has worn that skirt with a decomposing mouse sewn inside it on numerous occasions,” she continued.

“What if it made her ill?”

Natalie, a designer and former dressmaker, bought the age six skirt from an Asda store in Dunstable last November.

“Sofia has several skirts but she wore this one a number of times and never said anything,” Natalie explained.

“It was only when I was going through her clothes and wardrobe two weeks ago that I noticed the pungent smell.

“I decided to wash it separately but it still smelled awful.

“I wondered whether she had stuffed some things in her pocket and that’s when I noticed the pleat, which appeared to be full.

“I used to be a dressmaker so I know the makeup of a garment – the only way we could access it was by cutting open the pleat.

“We decided to video it in case we needed to get in touch with Asda and they wanted evidence.”

The mouse was sewn inside one of the pleats [Photo: SWNS]
The mouse was sewn inside one of the pleats [Photo: SWNS]

Natalie and partner Stuart, a plasterer, cut open the skirt on February 18 and were horrified to see a dead mouse nestled in the pleat.

The next day Natalie called Asda to complain who advised her to keep the dead mouse as evidence.

“They told me to keep the skirt and the dead mouse and take it into the store. But I explained that I didn’t want it stinking up my car,” Natalie continues.

“They said they would send a driver to pick it up but nobody has come yet. So the skirt and the dead mouse are still in a bag by my back door. It really is gross.”

Natalie purchased the skirt back in November last year [Photo: SWNS]
Natalie purchased the skirt back in November last year [Photo: SWNS]

An Asda spokesperson said: “We have begun a thorough investigation into how the mouse got into a skirt that was manufactured last summer.”​

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for non-stop inspiration delivered fresh to your feed, every day. For Twitter updates, follow @YahooStyleUK.

Read more from Yahoo Style UK:

A third of parents think its OK to choose not to vaccinate their children against MMR

Should schools ban best friends?

School bans boys from having a ‘Meet me at McDonalds’ haircut, but what is it?