I didn’t report being injected – I wasn’t confident it would be properly investigated
A LOUGHBOROUGH University student, who says she was spiked by injection while at her student union, said she did not report the incident to police because she was not confident it would be properly investigated.
The second year undergraduate said staff at the venue had insisted she was drunk, despite a small dot on her elbow, which was later confirmed by a doctor to have been caused by an injection.
Despite being admitted to hospital, she claimed she received “no contact at all” from the union in the days following the incident, which occurred earlier this month.
“I was in our students’ union. I don’t remember actually getting spiked, I just remember going dizzy and collapsing in the smoking area,” she told the PA news agency.
“I was told by the friends I was with that the union security insisted that I had just had too much to drink, when I had only had a couple of drinks that evening, the same amount as the friends looking after me.
“There was a conversation about whether it was injected or not because I had a small dot on my elbow and the union staff insisted it couldn’t be the case, sticking on that I was too drunk or had taken something.”
The student said a doctor later confirmed she had been injected. She went to hospital for monitoring after experiencing heart palpitations.
“After that I went home and stayed in bed for about three days. I couldn’t eat anything at all without throwing up,” she said.
Asked whether she had reported the incident, or if any action had been taken, she said: “On the night one of the security guards asked me if I knew who did it and I said I couldn’t remember anything.
“After that nothing… no contact from the union at all.
They didn’t contact me from when I left to go to the hospital. “I didn’t bother chasing it up because afterwards I was exhausted and I wasn’t confident that they would investigate it.” The student, who is taking part in a boycott of nightclubs in Loughborough, said similar incidents had been happening “a lot this year, particularly in the students’ union”. A university spokesman said: “We do not believe this incident has yet been reported to the university. “We encourage the victim to come forward so we can fully investigate, in partnership with the students’ union.
“For the avoidance of doubt, any student who is identified spiking will have their studies terminated.” Loughborough Students’ Union has been contacted for comment.
I was in our students’ union. I don’t remember actually getting spiked, I just remember going dizzy and collapsing