Police rush in after man heard screaming 'I'm going to kill you'; discover noise caused by him attacking spider

Officers in Sydney respond to reports of man shouting threats and furniture being thrown - only to find a 'quite embarrassed' man on his own in an apartment

Sydney police say a man was left "quite embarrassed" after several neighbours mistook his efforts to kill a spider for a domestic violence incident.

Around 2am on Sunday several police cars rushed to an apartment in the northern suburb of Wollstonecraft, responding to reports of a woman screaming hysterically, a man yelling, "I'm going to kill you, you're dead", and furniture being thrown.