Warning on drinks (From Watford Observer)

Warning on drinks

1:00pm Tuesday 20th January 2004 in News

A 27-YEAR-OLD woman is warning others to be on their guard after she believes she was the victim of the so-called date-rape drug Rohypnol while out in Watford.

When two men began talking to Miss Claire Greenhill, of Watford, and her friend Miss Gemma Shepherd, 22, in a bar in The Parade, Watford, on Saturday, January 10, the women thought nothing of it.

But having remembered little of the hour inside the bar and spending the next two days being violently sick, Miss Greenhill thinks her drink was spiked.

Fortunately the women got back to Miss Greenhill's flat safely, by taxi, but fear they could have suffered a worse fate than a headache, chest pains and being sick.

Miss Greenhill, a receptionist, believes the drinks they were bought were spiked while left unattended for a minute. They refused an offer of another drink from the two men they had been talking to, but one of them bought a drink for Miss Shepherd and drank half of it to show there was nothing wrong with it.

Miss Greenhill said: "He said, 'don't worry there is nothing wrong with it' which I thought was a weird thing to say."

Police launched a campaign at Christmas which included warnings on posters and beermats.