A factory worker was seconds away from death following a bite from a False Widow spider – just two weeks after getting an arachnid tatt.
Courtney Mates noticed the eight-legged fiend in her home in Chelmsford one evening before noticing a small red mark on the inside of her knee.
But after waking up in the morning, the 20-year-old noticed the swelling had worsened overnight and began losing consciousness at work.
The E2V worker said: "I saw the spider in my bedroom and the ceilings are...
