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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ted Hennessey

Restaurateur accused of spiking woman’s drink with date-rape drug tells jury he was ‘wrong’

The incident took place at the Annabel's private members’ club in Mayfair - (No Swan So Fine/CC BY-SA 4.0)

A restaurateur accused of spiking a woman’s drink with a date-rape drug at an exclusive private members’ club has tearfully told a jury that putting a substance in her drink was “wrong”.

Vikas Nath, 63, used a straw to put gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) into the woman’s drink while sitting in the rooftop garden bar at Annabel's, Mayfair, on January 15 2024, a trial at Southwark Crown Court was told.

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