Holidaymaker nearly loses leg after spider bite

A holidaymaker on the trip of a lifetime almost lost his leg after suffering a flesh-eating spider bite.

Doctors told Jonathon Hogg he could have died after he was bitten by a poisonous brown recluse spider, which he believes happened on a flight from Qatar to South Africa.

Within hours the 40-year-old’s leg had ballooned and turned black, and by the time he reached hospital it was “bursting open”.