WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: Matthew from Surrey complained to his mum on Christmas Day of discomfort in his leg - but mum Sarah just thought her son had a graze, not a venomous spider bite
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Michael Wilkinson from High Wycombe said he was left with a 4cm hole in his leg after being bitten by a false widow spider while sitting outside an Asda
After being bitten by a false widow spider, the pain woke Stuart Vesty up in agony in the middle of the night. By the morning his face had started to sag and he feared he was having a stroke
WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Kevin Tomlinson set out for a five kilometre run not far from his Doncaster home, but the dad was left with a 'rotting' wound on his thigh that stank like 'gone-off meat'
Jason Missey had been moving wood in his garden at his home in Broadstairs, Kent, when he felt a sting on his finger but just assumed it was a horse fly, not that his flesh would soon be rotting away