The 28-year-old later experienced "excruciating" pain spreading up her arm as a result of the incident. Medics told the mother of three her experience was due to a false widow spider bite.

Lily Hodgson, 5, told her mum that her ankle was in pain and it hurt to walk By bedtime her face was itching too, and she was soon covered in rashes A bite from 'Britain's most dangerous spider ...