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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Caitlin Griffin

'I don't have to cover my drink when I go out - why should women?'

Parklife boss Sacha Lord is on a mission to change the country's drink spiking laws - and says a u-turn on the decision to make spiking a specific criminal offence 'a curveball' he didn't expect.

Mr Lord - who is also co-founder of Warehouse Project - says the existing law from 1861 is now over 150 years old needs urgently updating.

“In 1861, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that our socialising was possibly slightly different to how it is now," he said.

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