Woman warns others after drink spiked in Ibiza

Layla Boudaboussa has launched a campaign on social media to warn others after her drink was spiked while at Ibiza Rocks

A woman who said she became ill after her drink was spiked on holiday has been warning others to take extra care via a social media campaign.

Layla Boudaboussa, 26, from Chigwell, Essex, was at an Ibiza Rocks event with her friends and her mother on the Spanish island on 11 July when she said she began to feel unwell.

"I felt very drunk and I thought, I had not drunk enough to be feeling how I felt," she said.

Ibiza Rocks said it had not had any police reports regarding alleged spiking incidents at the venue and it took "every reported concern regarding customer safety in our venue extremely seriously".

Ms Boudaboussa's mother, Jeanette Boudaboussa told her daughter that her eyes "were rolling in the back of my head".

"They tried to stand me up and I couldn't stand, I couldn't speak. I was foaming at the mouth as well, apparently, which was quite traumatic to hear," the 26-year-old added.

She said she was taken to a medical room at the venue, where staff ran some tests.

"The ran a finger-prick test apparently, and that's how they determined that the level of alcohol in my system was quite low," she said.

"So it meant I wasn't drunk and that obviously led to the conclusion of drugs. That's when they confirmed I had been spiked."

She said she regained consciousness 15 hours later, but could barely stand up.

Layla Boudaboussa was attending a hen party with her mother Jeanette when her drink was spiked

Ms Boudaboussa said when her mother explained to her that her drink had been spiked she felt "tearful and really confused".

Her GP in the UK told her she thought her drink had been spiked with the illegal drugs GHB and ketamine.

"I'm starting to feel better now, but the first week was quite difficult," she said.

"I kept falling asleep. I fell asleep eating my dinner."

Ms Boudaboussa said her memory had also been affected and she had become confused.

She added her mother was told by a manager at the event that spiking incidents had been happening on a daily basis.

Ms Boudaboussa decided to post her experience on TikTok to warn others and her video has been viewed more than 269,000 times.

"I just wanted to turn a really negative experience into a positive one," she said.

Ms Boudaboussa said many people, including mothers, had contacted her and were buying drink covers for their sons and daughters.

She believed more could be done by venues to prevent drink spiking - including the use of film stickers placed over glasses once a drink has been poured.

Ibiza Rock's disputed Ms Boudaboussa claim that she undertook a finger-prick alcohol test at the venue and it added "no manager employed by us stated that we have many spiking incidents".

It said: "Spiking is something that we simply will not tolerate and we do as much as we possibly can to stand firm against this, including supplying free drinks' covers."