{"id":43816,"date":"2021-10-30T22:52:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T21:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=43816"},"modified":"2021-10-30T22:52:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T21:52:33","slug":"what-does-a-club-owner-really-think-of-the-spiking-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/what-does-a-club-owner-really-think-of-the-spiking-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"What does a club owner really think of the spiking scandal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Young women over the nation are worried about when they will be able to safely gather for drinks so we asked a club owner what he is planning to solve the problem.<\/h4>\n<p>The national debate in the past days has focused\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/cancel-culture-things-men-can-do-to-make-women-feel-safer-before-they-get-called-out\/\">on what men can do to make women feel safer<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/girls-night-in-boycotts-criticised-for-stopping-women-from-reclaiming-the-streets\/\">the effectiveness or inefficiency of Girls Night In boycotts.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Night life in England is seeing a drop next week because of spiking scandal &amp; girls\/women staying home.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if Scotland &amp; Wales are doing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GirlsNightIn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GirlsNightIn<\/a> too<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sue\ud83e\udd96\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1\ud83d\udc9a\ud83e\udd0d\ud83d\udc9c\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08Women, Life, Freedom (@eleonorasfalcon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eleonorasfalcon\/status\/1452600209796734982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The boycotts began with an intention to raise awareness and make clubs increase security to protect women on nights out.<\/p>\n<p>Martina, 21, a student at Westminster University, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s horrible thats the highlight of your evening. Trying not to be spiked.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#39;s been another disturbing incident at the Rapture Nightclub, a week after a drink spiking scandal.<br \/>A man collapsed, just outside, in the early hours of this morning, with owner Neil Scott insisting his security staff helped the stranger.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/perthnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#perthnews<\/a> @10NewsFirstPER <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2YSAqBhL9i\">pic.twitter.com\/2YSAqBhL9i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Natalie Forrest (@nat_forrest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nat_forrest\/status\/1183308368321990658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So we asked a club owner what he really thinks of the Girls Night In movement and what he did to make his club more secure for young women and general customers.<\/p>\n<p>For privacy-related issues, the owner didn&#8217;t allow us to report his real name.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll just refer to him as &#8216;John&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>John owns a famous club in Central London.<\/p>\n<p>He assured us that he had taken this problem very seriously and that he had already increased the number of door supervisors inside the venue.<\/p>\n<p>He also increased the number of people being searched, with the CCTV cameras updated for higher resolution.<\/p>\n<p>John also reported that: &#8220;We will be offering 200 free glass and bottle covers to help visitors feel safer and all our staff are now subject to random drug searches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44009\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44009\" class=\"wp-image-44009\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2021\/10\/GirlsNightsIn-London-212x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2021\/10\/GirlsNightsIn-London-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2021\/10\/GirlsNightsIn-London-725x1024.jpeg 725w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2021\/10\/GirlsNightsIn-London-768x1085.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2021\/10\/GirlsNightsIn-London-1087x1536.jpeg 1087w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2021\/10\/GirlsNightsIn-London.jpeg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-44009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Post from GirlsNightsIn LondonPhotograph: @girlsnightsinlondon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the end, he asked for greater cooperation between owners and customers, because as he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We need your help too, help us fight this terrible crime. We are with you. We want to make a change but we had a very hard time in the past two years, so please be considerate of us as well. We&#8217;ll solve this together.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Helpful guidelines on the symptoms of drink spiking and how to help a friend who you think has been spiked can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkaware.co.uk\/advice\/staying-safe-while-drinking\/drink-spiking-and-date-rape-drugs\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, we will not need them for much more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Francesco Ghanaymi<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Subbing: Ioana Nedelcu<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young women over the nation are worried about when they will be able to safely gather for drinks so we asked a club owner what he is planning to solve the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":44550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,53,75,82,84,152,93,111,131],"tags":[2652,3769,5404,5728,6753,6957,6965],"class_list":["post-43816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-feminism-2","category-investigations","category-lifestyle","category-london","category-london-violence","category-news","category-sexuality","category-trends","tag-girls-night-in","tag-london","tag-safety","tag-society","tag-voice-of-london","tag-women","tag-womens-safety"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}