‘UK nightclub needle attacks’ lead to three arrests
- A number of young women and men have come forward, saying they believe they were injected with drug-filled hypodermic needles at clubs and bars
- Police in Nottinghamshire say they made two arrests as part of an ongoing investigation into ‘spiking’ incidents in the city
Police in England said on Friday they had arrested three men, after several days of increasing alarm at reports that revellers had been injected with needles at nightclubs.
A number of young women and men, mostly students, have come forward, saying they believe they were injected with drug-filled hypodermic needles at clubs and bars.
Women in particular have for years been warned to be alert to their drinks being spiked with alcohol or sedative drugs while on nights out.
Police in Nottinghamshire in central England said Friday they had made two arrests as part of an ongoing investigation into “spiking” incidents in the city.
They involved two men aged 18 and 19 who were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to administer poison “with intent to injure, annoy or aggrieve”.
The police force said the arrests were not linked to any “specific case or incident reported to us over the last few weeks” of either drink spiking or spiking by a needle.