Clubber ‘laced friend’s cocktail with female aphrodisiac’
A MAN spiked a friend’s drink with an aphrodisiac in an attempt to encourage her to have sex with him, a court heard.
Shervin Dorostkar, 30, is alleged to have put Spanish Goldfly in the woman’s cocktail while at an exclusive west London venue. According to its manufacturers, Spanish Goldfly is a “100 per cent natural and herbal” female aphrodisiac, which leads to “a volcanic eruption of ultimate passion and a feeling of intense sexual desire and lust”.
The pair first met through Facebook and went out several times as “normal friends”, Southwark Crown Court heard.
On May 13 last year, Dorostkar took the woman to the Kensington Roof Gardens, off Kensington High Street, after picking her up at 11.30pm.
She was told that he would be bringing other friends, but they never arrived.
At about 1.10am, Dorostkar bought a strawberry cocktail for the woman, who could not drink alcohol because of a stomach ulcer. Staff saw Dorostkar making an “unusual movement” with his hands before he took the drink back to his friend at the table, it was said.
As the woman sipped her drink, bar staff asked if she was OK and told her that the drink might have been spiked.
The alleged victim, who cannot be identified, struggled to hold back the tears in court after admitting that she had “trusted” Dorostkar.
She said: “I was shocked, I was shaking…he said to me, ‘tell them you are my girlfriend, I just wanted to have sex’.”
CCTV footage of the incident was reviewed by the bar manager, who saw Dorostkar lower one of the drinks below bar level, before “placing something in the drink”, it was alleged. A sachet was said to have been found at the bar, labelled: “Goldfly sex drops”.
The woman claimed that Dorostkar, an Iranian national, had begged her: “Please, I want to get my British passport, don’t get me into trouble.”
Dorostkar, of Perivale, north-west London, denies attempting to administer a substance with intent to stupefy or overpower to allow sexual activity.
The trial continues.