http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=7&u=/nm/crime_britain_drugged_dcBusinessman Drugged with Date Rape Drug and Robbed
LONDON (Reuters) - A businessman told a jury on Tuesday how he met a woman in a London nightclub who drugged him with the date-rate drug Rohypnol and stole his Rolex watch as he lay passed out at home.
Alexander Jovy, 34, told a Middlesex Crown Court jury that he met Selina Hakki in a Piccadilly nightclub after a night of drinking. He vaguely recalls taking a taxi back to his Maida Vale apartment where she asked him if he had any red wine.
He told the court he poured two glasses of wine and then soon collapsed to the floor. The last thing he remembered was Hakki helping him to bed and taking his t-shirt off.
Jovy told the court he awoke the next afternoon feeling "very, very strange" and soon discovered that a number of items in his home had been stolen, including a 5,000 pound Rolex watch, a 2,000 pound Cartier mantle clock, a 900 pound video camera and expensive aftershave.
Hakki, 37, of Bow, is accused of stealing thousands of pounds worth of property from Jovy and banker Volker Vogler after allegedly picking the men up at exclusive London nightspots and drugging them in their homes.
The court heard that when Jovy awoke the next day, he felt "very, very strange."
"I felt very traumatized and did not know what was going on. I stumbled around and realized my watch was not there," he said.
Police said traces of the drug Rohypnol were found in one of the wine glasses in Jovy's flat and large amounts of the drug were also found in his urine and blood samples.
Hakki's fingerprints and her DNA were found on cigarette butts at the homes of both men. She denies the two charges of administering drugs with intent and two of theft between May 2002 and September 2003. The case continues.
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