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Nia Price & Katie Weston

Girl bitten on LIP by false widow spider loses use of legs and mum fears she's paralysed

A mum feared her daughter would be left paralysed after she was bitten on the lip by a false widow spider in her sleep - leaving her unable to move her legs.

Phoebe-Lee Matthews, from Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, woke up last month with a strange black dot on her lip which was initially believed to be a wart or impetigo.

Two days later, her mum, Rachel Wilson, spotted an "unusual-looking" spider on the landing, which she believes was the false widow that bit her 10-year-old daughter.

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