Kate McCann, political Editor of Times Radio (Picture: Getty)
Journalist Kate McCann has told how her drink was spiked at a nightclub, leaving her feeling ‘out of her body’.
After reports of a rise in spiking, she wrote: ‘I had my drink spiked in a bar by a group of men so brazen they didn’t care who saw.
‘A colleague spotted them, thought we’d be OK as I’d only had one sip but sadly it was enough.
‘It was awful and I was lucky. Still don’t understand why they did it. It’s SO scarily common.’
She said she had woken up at 4am the next morning on her bathroom floor after managing to call an Uber and get back home.
She shared her story on X, formerly known as Twitter, in response to a Sunday Times front page article about a ‘drink and drugs spiking epidemic’ in Britain.
The article told how MPs have been ‘deluged’ by reports from victims, with testing inadequate leading to problems establishing true figures on the scale of the problem.
Ms McCann continued: ‘It’s such a strange thing, I still can’t work out what they had to gain? I was in a big group and there was no way to isolate me really – I don’t understand the point. Perhaps best not to think too hard about it maybe.’
Spiking is when a substance is added to someone’s drink without their knowledge or consent, such as drugs or alcohol.
It can have a range of motives, such as making it easier to sexually assault or rob someone, trying to assert dominance over someone, or even finding it funny to incapacitate the victim.
Drugs such as Rohypnol, GHB and GBL can leave people extremely vulnerable, with memory loss of what happened to them. Spiking drugs often leave the body quickly making it difficult to prove what happened.
Ms McCann said: ‘The one thing I would say about whether people get confused about just being too drunk is that being spiked feels nothing like being drunk – even really really drunk.
‘It’s a totally different and really horrid feeling which you KNOW isn’t just alcohol. Like being out of your body.’
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