Date-rape drug woman guilty

A temptress was facing life imprisonment tonight after being found guilty of using the date-rape drug Rohypnol to “knock out” and rob a bank manager and a film director.

Selina Hakki, 37, who pocketed thousands of pounds in valuables, had repeatedly cruised exclusive nightspots hunting likely victims.

She is believed to be the first woman to be convicted of using the drug against men.

Once Hakki had spotted a victim, usually wearing designer clothes and expensive watches, the mother of two used the lure of sex to get them to invite her back to their plush apartments.

London’s Middlesex Crown Court heard that for banker Volker Vogler and film producer Alexander Jovy, the pleasant evening they had envisaged rapidly turned into a nightmare of drug-induced confusion and stolen property.

Deliberately using their red wine to conceal the sedative’s bright blue dye, she then encouraged the pair to drink up.

Within minutes they were reeling from its effects, before collapsing senseless on to their beds.

Guyana-born Hakki, of Gale Street, Bow, east London, who just hours earlier had declined to give evidence in her own defence, initially showed no reaction as the jury of five women and seven men took just 20 minutes to unanimously convict her on the four charges she had denied.