The housemate of a teen who died after complaining of a spider bite claims he had to go to A&E after he was also bitten, just weeks before the tragedy.
Hull University student Kacper Zydron says he complained to their landlord after being attacked by the arachnid last summer but claims they 'didn't care'.
Tragically, just a few weeks later Kacper's housemate Harry Bolton, 19, was found dead in his room with a wound the size of a £1 coin.
Harry had been to A&E but self-discharged and returned home to bed, telling medics he would visit a walk-in centre the following day.
On October 7 2021 he was found by his housemates and pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Kacper claims their flat was infested with enormous spiders but that he was not taken seriously when he spoke to the landlord.
He told The Sun : "The spiders were big - the size of a fist. I was bitten around August.
"It was just a pinprick. After about a week, it was like a hole in my neck that had started oozing."
He says he went to A&E but was given only paracetamol, so he called his GP and demanded antibiotics which helped the swelling go down.
Kacper had to ask his parents to help draw pus from the wound after it became infected which had helped to relive the pain.
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Universal Images Group via Getty Images)The student added that he did not "blame anyone" for the incident, but still acknowledged that it was odd that he and Harry had both had such an extreme reaction to being bitten.
He said: "I don't think they were venomous. It was just a case of both spider bites getting infected from bacteria."
Kacper had sent their landlord a photo of what looked like a common house spider.
However pest control inspectors sent for the tenants' peace of mind had not found evidence of an infestation when they visited the property, saying there was a normal amount of insects there for the time of year.
Only a few weeks after Kacper's bite, Harry had complained that he had been bitten on his back, and had been advised by friends to go and get it looked at by a doctor.
An inquest heard that paramedics had found a £1 coin sized wound on his back which had appeared to be infected.
A coroner recorded the cause of Harry's tragic and untimely death as sepsis due to an acute chest infection caused by an infected wound on his back.
They added that he would not have died at that time "had he not been bitten by an invertebrate, possibly a spider".
