A Gold Coast couple who believe their drink was spiked woke to a trashed apartment with the man having human bite marks on his body.
The engaged pair were also facing eviction from the landlord after the noise and chaos they created, but he has now let them stay after blood tests show they tested positive to methamphetamine and tranquilliser benzodiazepines.
The couple, a 30-year-old from France who has lived on the Gold Coast for several years, and her 34-year-o9ld boyfriend, have spoken anonymously to The Gold Coast Bulletin about their horrific experience after going to a popular bar, Waxy’s, in Surfer’s Paradise.
The woman said that one minute he was sharing a pint of Little Creatures with her 34-year-old Australian boyfriend — the next she was woken in the morning by loud knocks at her Surfers Paradise apartment and no memory of the night.
“I just remember waking up with the police at the door,’’ she told the news site. “Apparently we were really loud and violent in the middle of the night. The apartment was a war zone.
“I had bruises and cuts on my body. Everything was upside down, clothes were outside of cupboards, pictures had been thrown on the floor.”
Her partner, who suffered similar memory blanks, had left in the early hours to stay at his mother’s home after being asked to leave by the landlord who feared domestic violence. He woke with deep bite marks on his back and leg that had drawn blood.
who say they were drink-spiked at a popular Glitter Strip bar woke up to a trashed apartment, police at their door and a landlord threatening eviction.
The landlord has agreed with their story and said the behaviour was totally out of character. Police have confirmed that they attended the couple’s apartment on October 10.
With Schoolies about to happen in the Gold Coast this is another frightening event involving drugs. Just a week or so ago, Gold Coast paramedics were called to a large spate of drug overdoses and incidents involving 21 people who had taken synthetic hallucinogen called N-Bomb.
On that same weekend Victorian footballer Riki Stephens was admitted to hospital after taking a mystery drug on a footy trip on the Gold Coast. He never recovered and died last week.
Drug workers say the N-Bomb is often marketed as LSD, and it’s really easy to overdose.
Fairfax Media spoke with Australian Drug and Alcohol Foundation chief executive John Rogerson about minimising the risk in the lead up to Schoolies and the summer music festival season.
“At the end of the day, people are dying and that’s what we are trying to stop,” said.
His message for parents and teenagers heading to schoolies was to avoid the drug completely.
“We’ve had a tragedy this week, it’s a tragedy collectively for us as a community and we want to avoid all of that,” Mr Rogerson said.
“Pill testing is not something we would ever do at schoolies. The message is not to participate in something that is illicit.”
