Man drugged and sexually assaulted in back of car opens up on harrowing ordeal
dailyrecord.co.ukAn brave Scots man has told of the traumas he has faced after being drugged and sexually assaulted in the back of a car at 20 years-old.Joey Jones, from Murrayfield, has vowed to encourage men to speak up and get help after he suffered in silence for seven years following the incident.
Opening up on his experience to Edinburgh Live, the now 30-year-old explained that he was over in South Africa pursuing a rugby career and was out celebrating with his teammates after a game when the incident occurred.After several drinks and being drugged he found himself in a car with an older man who he said "wouldn't let him leave" before sexually assaulted him.
Joey says he still has no memory of how he got there. Following the horrendous ordeal, Joey turned to drinking, drugs and gambling as a way of coping mechanism for the trauma.Joey said: "I took a gamble going out to South Africa, I was away from friends and family.
However, I was a really confident young lad who was a high achiever at rugby. One night, I was out with friends and I remember being completely out of it."I don't really know how it happened because I don't remember drinking that much.
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