Gardaí warn women over drinks after rape attack

GARDAÍ issued a warning to young women last night — watch each other’s drinks at Christmas parties after it emerged that a woman in her twenties could have had her drink deliberately spiked before being raped.

Gardaí in Youghal, Co. Cork, have not ruled out the possibility that the woman, who was raped in the early hours of last Sunday morning. may have had her drink laced with a powerful and so-called ‘date rape drug’ which left her virtually senseless.

A garda spokesman said the woman had been drinking at a local nightclub before the attack took place. She is believed to have left possibly in the company of a man of her own age, between 1.30 and 2 am.