Police investigate reports of spikings at Reading & Leeds 2022
nme.comReading & Leeds 2022 over the weekend (August 26-28).Festival-goers at both the Richfield Avenue site in Reading and Leeds’ Bramham Park reported alleged incidents of spiking by injection.Two teenage girls were reportedly injected with unknown substances at Leeds.
One of the girls, 17, said she felt a throbbing pain in her thigh while waiting in a crowd on Saturday (August 27), according to the Daily Mail.
She claimed to have seen a man with a syringe walking away through the crowd and, later, started to feel dizzy.It is reported that her mother collected her then took her to hospital when she started having a seizure on the way home.An hour after the first girl was allegedly spiked, a second girl, also 17, was reportedly injected in the crowd.
She was also taken to hospital. “Police are investigating after two 17-year-old girls reported being victims of possible needle spiking at Leeds Festival,” West Yorkshire Police said in a statement.“Both girls received medical attention on-site after they reported feeling unwell in separate incidents on Saturday.
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