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Jury Convicts Mayfair Restaurateur of Spiking Woman's Drink at Annabel's

He was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on February 16.

Overview

  • A Southwark Crown Court jury on February 6 found Vikas Nath guilty of attempting to administer a substance with intent and of possessing a Class B drug.
  • Annabel's staff spotted him tampering with a spicy margarita, swapped it before the woman could drink it, and preserved the glass for police testing.
  • CCTV captured him using a straw and a small bottle disguised as vanilla extract, which police later recovered from a toilet cistern and forensics linked to GBL.
  • A search of his Knightsbridge home uncovered two larger bottles of GBL and a motion-activated hidden camera positioned toward his bed.
  • Prosecutors said he aimed to incapacitate the woman for sex; he admitted spiking the drink but claimed he intended only to relax her, a defense the jury rejected.