Christian Voice leader blames giant mouse infestation on Tesco's support for gay rights

The closure of a London branch of Tesco due to an infestation of "super mice" is symptomatic of the kind of bad management which led the company to support a gay pride festival, the leader of a fundamentalist Christian group has said. Health inspectors found a "giant mouse" in a Tesco store in London's Covent Garden in 2012. The creature had swollen beyond its normal size because it had been feasting on chicken and cakes.



Tesco last week pleaded guilty at Westminster magistrates' court to six food hygiene offences, and offered an "unreserved apology". However, Stephen Green, the national director of religious pressure group Christian Voice, has argued that the infestation was divine retribution for the supermarket's donation of £30,000 to London Gay Pride.

He told the PinkNews website: "It is symptomatic of the bad management of Tesco. Any company which announces its support for Gay Pride six weeks before Christmas obviously can't operate basic pest control."



On its website, Christian Voice describes itself as “a ministry for those Christians who are fed up with the way things are”. Last year, Mr Green wrote a blog post in which he said: “Nothing has gone right for Tesco since they decided to support ‘gay pride’. Their only hope is to repent of that decision and put their trust in God.”