“I have genuinely never felt more unsafe to be a woman going out and about.” A BBC Question Time audience member says she does not feel night clubs are doing enough to keep customers safe, after a number of cases of women being spiked by needles. The SNP’s Kate Forbes calls for “cultural change” in tackling violence against women. Police Scotland is investigating claims that women on nights out were spiked using injections. Reports had been made to police in Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow and Aberdeen but the force said it did not think the cases were connected. An 18-year-old student living in Aberdeen said she believed she had been spiked with a needle last Friday. She was unwell for days, and noticed what she thought was a needle mark on her skin.
Spiked by a Needle
This is absolutely terrifying. We can “protect” ourselves from our drinks being spiked traditionally, we can go to the bathroom in pairs, carry rape alarms and learn self-defence… But how on Earth can we protect ourselves from injections? Women are literally being stabbed in the back, how are we expected to defend ourselves from that?