Drugs used by killers sent from US ‘in a day’

DATE-RAPE drugs – including those used by prolific sex attackers – are being openly sold online and shipped to the UK by ‘express delivery’, a Mail investigation has found.

Internet pharmacists said Britain had become one of its ‘top destinations’ for sales of Rohypnol and GHB, which are illegal in the UK without a prescription.

Undercover reporters were offered them prescription-free by four dealers, who promised ‘secure’ delivery in 24 hours and a ‘100 per cent success rate’.

One said the packages were designed to avoid detection.

It comes amid growing concerns the drugs are being used in sex attacks, with police saying there were 198 reports of drink spiking in September and October in the UK, plus 24 reports of some form of injection.

Home Secretary Priti Patel announced in March that she would crack down on GHB and related substances after warning they had been used in some ‘truly sickening crimes’.

But with a Google search, the Mail found a string of websites selling the drugs. After sending messages posing as a potential buyer to a US-based site, reporters were offered hundreds of pounds worth of Rohypnol and GHB, without a prescription.

The dealers accepted payment only in untraceable cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The date-rape drugs are sedatives which can be used legally to treat insomnia if prescribed by doctors.

Criminals caught trying to distribute Rohypnol in the US can face up to life in prison.

But one said: ‘All orders are packaged very discreetly in padded envelopes with heated sealed sachets inside. The UK is one of our top destinations for delivery from the US.’

UK serial killer Stephen Port poisoned four men with GHB.

He was given a whole life prison term in 2016, while black-cab rapist John Worboys, believed to have attacked more than 100 women before being jailed in 2009, plied victims with alcohol laced with sedatives.