N/A, 20, April 2026 I had gone out with an old friend and some of their work colleagues. We ended up going into [a bar] since it was new and opening weekend. After about an hour of being there however I went to the bathroom it was only 11:30pm I believe, and I blacked out regaining...
Lisa, 1989-2026 On New Year’s Eve in 1989 I had my drink spiked and ended up in bed with someone so it was a rape. Following on from that I started getting followed. At times I have been terrified. The stalking continued a few months and has been sporadic and very heavy at times since. I...
2023, Aged 55 I have no recollection past 11.30. I was not drunk. I had been given rohypnol and opiates. I spoke to the licensee and his pal had put in the cctv and it only saved for 10 days instead of the mandatory 30. He said he had saved the footage for me. When the police got involved...
2022, Aged 19 Went for a drink with work colleagues. Not sure about when I got spiked, but I ended up coming to sitting near the pub, with a man groping me saying that he was going to bring me to his place. I got up and ran off, leaving all my stuff (ID, wallet, etc) in the panic...
K, aged 20 2019 I was out on a works do and I went outside the bar to phone a friend to come and pick me up to take me home and a man followed me outside. I walked up to the art gallery to wait and the man followed me, he sat and talked to me and kept asking me to go home with him. I then...
Aged 16 2017 My younger male friend was (thankfully) walking me home through Hope Street Park in the later evening. We saw an older man in the middle of the park must’ve been late 30s at the time with a girl who I knew and was 16. He was stood over her and she was almost unconscious on...
Kylie Aged 18 2016 My drink had been spiked and I could barely even hold my own head up, was vomiting down myself and was slumped over a table. Rather than helping me or seeing if they could check CCTV to see who had done it, they grabbed me by my wrists and carried me out of the club...
2024 Aged 61 I believe I was spiked in a bar in Lytham. Talking to many other women in the St Annes and Lytham area this has happened to them too in the same place. I’m 61 years old and the doormen said it was caused by me taking drugs. I’ve never touched a drug in my life – I...
Ayva I wasn’t sure about posting this but everyone should be aware. I was out in St Anne’s when I became light headed and very faint and my lips started to swell up. I started being unable to breathe properly and headed outside with my sister. My legs then were unable to walk...
2023 and 2024 Aged 22 and 23 There has been a couple of times where I have been out with a very small group of gal friends (who would never ever ever let anything happen to me) when this particular bar has been very quiet and we’ve all left feeling very unwell. We used to come in for...
4th February 2024 Aged 26 I had attended a busy gig at xxx, somewhere I had always felt comfortable being. I had a few beers but started to feel more drunk than I should have been. Didn’t think too much of it until I woke up the next morning with what appeared to be a needle mark in my...
2019 Aged 20 I was out with some friends from work when I bumped into a group of people I knew. Whilst I was talking to these people, I left my drink foolishly unattended and when I returned and drank the drink I very quickly became unwell. I was very lucky that one of the girls I worked...
2023 Aged 20 I had been on a regular night with a few friends and everything was going smoothly, we visited the bar as its open late and we had previously been at another bat we liked that closes early. It was busy at the bar downstairs but my friends where dancing so I thought id go to...
December 2023 Aged 20 I was out with friends seeing my friend’s partner perform – we had been out for a few hours and there where a few of us. after a while I noticed my friend had been gone a little while so I tried to see if she was in the toilets. I found her in there being...
2023 Bystander account, aged 24 Witnessed two separate groups of women get spiked within minutes of each other. I was upstairs by the bar and noticed a young girl passed out on the floor her friends frantically trying to help her as they thought she’d been spiked. She was safe as...