After his son Tom was involved in a drink-spiking incident, Cork hotelier John Gately is cautioning the public about the risks of drink-spiking in the city’s late pubs, reports Breaking News.
In an interview with Neil Prendeville on Cork’s Redfm program, John said that his son Tom was out and under the influence of drugs on Monday, January 13.
He said that his wife and he took him to Mercy University Hospital in Cork because they were deeply worried about his health, reports Breaking News.
Three of the five patients who were waiting for treatment at the hospital had also been injected; one of them had been injected in the same spot as Gately’s kid.
“It was last Monday, Tom our son, who is 21, a big burly 6ft 1 lad, lots of friends, very popular man. He was out of the country for a week or two and was just back there last weekend and then decided to meet up with the pals in town,” Gately explained, reports Breaking News.
“So he had texted us, it was late enough it was around 1:30am. It was a normal text saying he was going to grab a cab home soon and then the next minute my wife gets a call at 2:50 in the morning that he didn’t know where he was, he was totally disorientated and confused and whatever. She didn’t even wake me she just went straight in herself and said I’ll ring you if I need you. She picked him up a distance away from where he had been. He was completely disorientated,” reports Breaking News.
“He doesn’t even remember going down there. The one thing he does remember is he was crossing the room in the place and felt a jolt of his glass, so he reckons he had the glass in his hand when somebody did what they did, poured something into it or whatever,” reports Breaking News.
In order to protect themselves, Gately advised individuals to limit their alcohol intake and spend evenings out with their friends, reports Breaking News.
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