Bite from 'Britain's most dangerous spider' leaves five-year-old unable to walk

Little Lily, 5, was covered 'literally head to toe' in rashes

Lily Hodgson, left, and a noble false widow or Steatoda nobilis, right

A bite from “Britain’s most dangerous spider” left a five-year-old covered “literally head to toe” in rashes and unable to walk.

Lily Hodgson, 5, didn’t know she’d been bitten when she told her mum that her ankle was in pain and it hurt to walk.

By bedtime her face was itching too – so her parents, thinking it was a reaction to food, gave her antihistamines.

But later that night, mum Genna Hunt awoke with a shock to find her daughter covered in rashes.

She said: “I woke at 3am as Lily felt hot next to me. I put the light on and nearly screamed at her poor face.

“I woke her up and she was covered in this strange rash literally head to toe.