Here in the UK the recent moral panic you referred to was in fact the third here since the turn of the century. There have in fact been no prosecutions for a crime committed in this way. Though there have been a small number of prosecutions for "spiking" drinks. Apart from anything else it would be a completely useless MO as in no case was the supposed "victim" harassed or assaulted. I do wonder if the most recent flowering of this urban myth in the UK might have been kicked off by the case of a gay serial killer who befriended and lured young gay men to his flat and did inject some of his victims to sedate them. Of course this is a very different scenario to randomly injecting people in a bar. As always some hapless policewoman got into hot water for suggesting the most likely scenario, that the reason for the symptoms were simply that the women had underestimated the volume of spirits they had consumed. As with supposed "spiking" of drinks there is little need to undertake any complicated procedure as there is a common behaviour of drinking spirits prior to going out and consuming spirits in cocktails. A predator need take no pains or risks to find "out of it" girls, or boys.
As I say there is no recorded case of such spiking being prosecuted in the UK nor of an assault involving such a spiking being prosecuted. And when i researched it there had been just over 100 cases of drinks spiking and assault over that 20 year period.
Here in the UK the recent moral panic you referred to was in fact the third here since the turn of the century. There have in fact been no prosecutions for a crime committed in this way. Though there have been a small number of prosecutions for "spiking" drinks. Apart from anything else it would be a completely useless MO as in no case was the supposed "victim" harassed or assaulted. I do wonder if the most recent flowering of this urban myth in the UK might have been kicked off by the case of a gay serial killer who befriended and lured young gay men to his flat and did inject some of his victims to sedate them. Of course this is a very different scenario to randomly injecting people in a bar. As always some hapless policewoman got into hot water for suggesting the most likely scenario, that the reason for the symptoms were simply that the women had underestimated the volume of spirits they had consumed. As with supposed "spiking" of drinks there is little need to undertake any complicated procedure as there is a common behaviour of drinking spirits prior to going out and consuming spirits in cocktails. A predator need take no pains or risks to find "out of it" girls, or boys.
As I say there is no recorded case of such spiking being prosecuted in the UK nor of an assault involving such a spiking being prosecuted. And when i researched it there had been just over 100 cases of drinks spiking and assault over that 20 year period.