"Vikas Nath, 63, used a straw to put gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) into the woman's drink while she was at Annabel's, a club in Mayfair on 15 January 2024, a trial at Southwark Crown Court was told. Nath, who has a portfolio of restaurants, including two with Michelin stars, admitted spiking the drink, but said it was to "relax" the woman rather than as part of a plan to have sex with her, prosecutors said."
"Nath denied attempting to administer a substance with intent and possession of a Class B drug. Giving evidence on Wednesday, Nath, of Knightsbridge, west London, told jurors: "What I did was wrong and I regret it very deeply." He denied that his intention was to "stupefy and overpower" the woman. The defendant said that he had mixed the substance, which he thought was cleaning fluid, with tequila and that he had put it in the woman's drink to "calm" her, the court heard."
Vikas Nath, 63, used a straw to add gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) into a woman's drink at Annabel's in Mayfair on 15 January 2024. He admitted spiking the drink but denied intending to administer a substance with intent or possessing a Class B drug. Nath said he mixed what he believed was cleaning fluid with tequila to calm an allegedly erratic woman, claiming prior personal use and taking a swig earlier that night. He told jurors he regretted his actions and denied intending to stupefy or overpower the woman. Police were told he bought the substance as car cleaning fluid around 2016.
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