| A British property developer who spiked a woman's red wine with a powerful sedative in an attempt to have sex with her was jailed for two years yesterday, despite the judge saying he did not pose a great risk to women, reports Guardian.
He had slipped the drug into the woman's glass when she went to the toilet during a date at a restaurant in London .
A waiter the man had earlier ordered to keep the woman's glass topped up, saw what had happened and warned the woman, a 28-year-old banker, as she returned from the toilet.
Rohail Spall, 39, of Ilford, Essex, was found guilty of administering a substance in order to engage in sexual activity. He had claimed that the pills he used were to combat chronic anxiety, and that, during the dinner he had mixed up the wine glasses by mistake.
The judge told Spall that, although he regarded him as unscrupulous and underhand, he was not convinced he posed "any significant risk to young women of serious harm". He added that the spiked drink had been a "deliberate attempt to weaken [the woman's] capacity to resist any sexual activity you might make towards her."
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