A proposed spiking law could give a voice to people who've been victims of drink tampering and needle injections.
Ella Shields, 21, stopped talking about the night her and her friends suspect their drinks were spiked in March last year. The group were taken to hospital after collapsing and passing out in a city centre pub.
They shared their story with the ECHO and on ITV News, but in just a month, they went from wanting to raise awareness and make a change, to wanting to stay silent.