"Southwark Crown Court heard staff at Annabel's noticed Nath dipping the straw into a small Madagascan vanilla extract bottle he had retrieved from his pocket, to suck up liquid before transferring it to the margarita. Staff managed to switch the drugged drink for a fresh one before the woman drank from it, and Nath threw the bottle of GBL into a toilet cistern when police were on the way, the court heard."
"Tim Clark KC, prosecuting, said Nath had also exchanged texts with a friend before the spiking incident, which happened on January 15, 2024, showing he wanted to have sex with the woman and was frustrated that it had not yet happened. This case is unusual because there's no dispute Mr Nath spiked her drink, said Mr Clark. His acceptance is not surprising; he had little choice because the spiking was captured on CCTV at Annabel's."
Vikas Nath, 63, used a straw to put gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) into a woman's spicy margarita at the rooftop garden bar of Annabel's in Mayfair. Staff observed Nath dipping a straw into a small Madagascan vanilla extract bottle retrieved from his pocket, sucking up liquid and transferring it to the margarita. Staff replaced the drugged drink with a fresh one before the woman drank from it and alerted police. Nath threw the bottle of GBL into a toilet cistern when police were en route. Nath admits spiking the drink and says he wanted to relax the woman rather than to have sex. Jurors were told he previously used a motion-activated camera in his Knightsbridge home to record sexual activity.
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