A drink-spiking victim has accused Home Secretary Priti Patel of putting lives at risk after she quietly scrapped plans to reduce access to lethal date rape drugs. The UK Government was planning a crackdown on GHB and GBL last month – but dropped it the day before the rules were due to change.
Jess Insall, 20, from Stirling, believes she was spiked after being found in a toilet cubicle by a friend, having been unconscious for an hour. Although she suspects GHB was used, police tested her more than 34 hours after the incident, by which time the drug can’t be detected in the body.
The accountant has been researching and campaigning to raise awareness of the dangers of the drug and was disappointed by the Home Secretary’s latest move. She said: “We are seeing this drug being repeatedly used in crimes as serious as murder.
