A HEAVILY pregnant woman said she went through hell trying to be re-homed after being moved out of her “uninhabitable” sewage-splattered flat.

Elle Vinall-Thompson, who is 34 weeks pregnant, is disappointed with Brighton and Hove City Council after it took 12 days to find her an appropriate home.

She was moved out of her emergency accommodation in Lower Rock Gardens, Brighton, after it was deemed uninhabitable by council welfare officers.

Her flat had sewage from flats above splattered on it, mouldy, urine-soaked mattresses in the doorway and a rat trap outside.

She also had a broken lock on her door which welfare officers had to kick down to let her in.

Ms Vinall-Thompson, 24, said: “I would have thought given the conditions I was in they would find me somewhere decent fairly quickly.

“The whole experience just made me feel so anxious and all this time I have just felt like a complete failure because I really thought there was going to be nowhere for me to bring up my son.

“I was living out of a plastic bag for days and would have no choice but to wear my pyjamas because all my clothes were dirty.”

She said she was offered accommodation in Brighton on the fourth floor of Percival Terrace, Kemp Town, but declined due to the eight flights of stairs up to her room.

Her next option was Eastbourne, but given her family live in Brighton and her need to be in the city for pregnancy check-ups, she also declined that.

The final option she said she turned down was a flat in Heathers Court which had “dodgy electricity” and no bathroom.

A council spokesman said: “We appreciate Ms Vinall-Thompson, being heavily pregnant, is in a vulnerable situation, which is why we offered her new accommodation in Brighton, as promised, the day after we deemed her previous accommodation inadequate.

“Ms Vinall-Thompson turned that accommodation down and spent the weekend with her friends, we believe.”

He said they offered her another place in Brighton which she turned down, but she accepted the third option on Monday.

He said: “There is an acute shortage of affordable housing available in the city, but whenever we have a legal duty to offer people accommodation we always do so.

“This can be temporary accommodation, while we wait for permanent accommodation appropriate to their needs to become available, which is what happened in this case. However, we cannot force people to accept the accommodation we offer them.”