EXTERMINATORS who killed hundreds of rats being kept in a rented Cape Town house have found a three-month-old human foetus in a cupboard while removing the rat carcasses. The woman who kept them, Gwynneth Quick, 39, who referred to the rats as “my babies”, was hospitalised for psychiatric observation but later released. She worked as a part-time researcher at the pharmacology faculty of Stellenbosch University. The rats had the run of the house except for one room, reserved for Quick and her companion. Police are probing the latest discovery. – AFP