A teen girl was left looking "possessed" and "frozen" after a stranger spiked her drink at a nightclub.
On Saturday, July 31, Millie Taplin from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, was celebrating her first night out after her 18th birthday at the Moo Moo Clubrooms in Southend-on-Sea when a stranger approached her and offered her a drink saying "try this".
Millie took few sips from the drink before heading to the smoking area with her friends.
"I had a couple of sips, not a lot because it was a strong drink and I don't like strong drinks! I went back out to the smoking area with my friends and went back in about 10 minutes later. That's when I started to feel a bit sick. I started to feel really hot so I told my friends I need to go outside get some fresh air," Millie narrated her experience to the local news website Your Southend after recovering from the shocking incident.
"I was sick in the alleyway opposite and that’s when I couldn’t see properly, I couldn’t feel my hands. I knew that I wasn’t right, I was trying to speak and was stuttering and mumbling. My friends then phoned my sister and I had to be carried to the car and taken to A&E. In my head I was there but in my body, I wasn't. I've never felt like that. The doctors were really supportive and trying to calm me down. I was in such a state when I arrived. I was so scared," she recalled.
Millie’s mother, Claire Taplin has shared the shocking video of her daughter lying "frozen" with clawed hands and locked jaw on a hospital bed.
"I got there at 1.30 am, the video shows what I was greeted with. I was just blown away," Claire said.
"It's just absolutely horrendous. She looked possessed. I was numb. I was looking at her and thought, 'What the hell have they given her' because I've never seen anything like it in my life," Claire said.
"She was completely frozen, her hands were like claws. The thing that destroyed me was she knew everything that was going on but she was frozen."
"When I made contact with her I could see that she was there, she was trying to make eye contact with me but she couldn’t speak."
"I thought long and hard about posting [the video]. You always hear about people being spiked but you never see the reality of it, so I posted it," Claire added.
The teen was in that state for about three to four hours, Claire said. Millie was discharged from the hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning.
According to the doctors who examined Millie, the drink was spiked with two separate unspecified substances, one of which paralyzed her and the other another made her unconscious, the Mirror reported.
"It was the first time she has ever been out clubbing on her own. I hope it doesn’t stop her from wanting to go out," Claire said.
"It could have happened anywhere. I don’t think Millie will ever take a drink off someone ever again," she added.
Moo Moo Clubrooms which opened in 2018, had received complaints about drinks being spiked in the past as well. An Essex Live report published in February 2019 listed four women who have had their drinks spiked at the nightclub.
"The alleged drink spiked appears to have been accepted from a person known to the lady affected and whilst it was not reported to us at the time, we are assisting the police who are dealing with the matter," a spokesperson from the Moo Moo club stated.
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