A 26-year-old woman 'spiked' on a hen do in a Liverpool bar has told how her friend saved her from whoever attacked her.
Rebecca Derbyshire, a landscape designer from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was injected with an unknown drug in the Rubber Soul bar in the city-centre on September 25.
In recent days, terrifying reports have emerged of an ‘epidemic’ of young female university students being stabbed with syringes and drugged against their will.
A 26-year-old woman (above) 'spiked' on a hen do in a Liverpool bar has told how her friend saved her from whoever attacked her
Rebecca Derbyshire (pictured), a landscape designer from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was injected with an unknown drug
Ms Derbyshire said: 'I felt something sharp go into my shoulder. It was a really unusual sensation.
'I turned around to my friend and said, ‘I think I’ve just been injected’. She looked at my arm and said there was a needle mark and we looked around trying to see who might have done it.
'It doesn’t bear thinking about what could have happened if my friend hadn’t been there.'
Ms Derbyshire and her friend went back to their hotel when she started to feel 'fuzzy, confused and quite shook up', the Mirror reported.
During a medical check-up, including HIV and hepatitis tests, doctors told Ms Derbyshire that whoever attacked her missed her blood stream and most likely used muscle relaxants.
It is only following the recent reports of a 'spiking epidemic' that Ms Derbyshire reported her experience to the police.
Ms Derbyshire was injected in the Rubber Soul bar (pictured) in Liverpool city-centre on September 25
Almost 200 drink spiking incidents have been reported to police forces across the UK over the past two months.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said there have been 198 confirmed reports of drink spiking in September and October across various parts of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, plus 24 reports of some form of injection.
Students are planning to boycott nightclubs next week as part of nationwide protests, with more than 30 universities taking part in the campaign in a bid to force venues to increase safety measures.
Following reports of spiking by needles in Nottingham, a petition calling for it to be a 'legal requirement' for nightclubs to 'thoroughly' search customers upon arrival has been signed by more
