TORMENTED residents in Garnethill have been left too scared to take their bins out in the evenings due to a vigorous back garden rat infestation. Scores of the disease-bearing rodents have weaved their way from a nest in an underground sewer to a garden surface on Buccleuch Street - creating dozens of eyesore burrows on their travels. The issue is understood to have been sparked from a collapsed wall within the sink - another word used for sewer - which has allowed the pests to enter the space and expand their burrows even further. Ian Khan, who owns the garden where the sewer is situated, says the problem lies within the hands of Scottish Water - who he claims have refused to repair the wall.