A woman has said "nowhere is safe" after she was found lying in her own sick in a suspected spiking case during a night out.
Olivia Riley, 21, woke up the day after a night out in Leeds with an "unusual" mark on her leg and little memory of the night before.
She was told by her boyfriend that she had been sick, something she hardly believed at first as she said she can usually handle her booze.
After going to the hospital and reporting it to the police, she was told she was more than likely spiked.
It comes just a few weeks after hundreds of women took part in the Girls Night In event, which saw them boycotting clubs across the country in a bid to get authorities to intervene against the soaring amount of spiking incidents.
Reports of spiking incidents across the country have massively increased in recent weeks, with data released by the National Police Chiefs Council showing 56 people reported being spiked by injection and a further 198 via their drinks in September and October.
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Olivia, from Stanley in Wakefield, told LeedsLive: "It didn't sink in at first. My family were really concerned - I'd heard of it happening in other places in Leeds but I never thought it would ever happen to me. I've never been in that state from drinking.
"I don't know why people do it. I never took my eyes off my drinks and I was sure I would've felt an injection.
"You can cover your drinks and be as careful as possible but I don't understand how you could stop a needle. I don't know what I could have done to stop it from happening.
"I hadn't drunk that much. The only way I could have avoided it is by not going out - and why should I have to put my life on hold because people are doing something sick like this?"
Olivia went out in Leeds on November 6 completely sober.
She had just got back from a holiday, and was looking forward to a night out with her friend.
After arriving at Manahatta Greek Street just before 8pm, she and her friend queued for around 40 minutes to get a drink because of how busy the bar was.
Olivia said she had around six drinks, which is less than she would usually have.
Her bank record shows she bought her last drink just after 10pm, and her friend's last drink was bought just before 11pm.
But she has no memory of leaving Manahatta somewhere between 10pm and 11pm.
"After about 10:30pm my memory is completely gone," she told LeedsLive.
"I don't remember leaving, I was found on the other side of Leeds around 11pm near Boar Lane which I don't remember, I didn't have my bag or shoes.
"I was found in the street by a group of girls laying in my sick. I don't remember anything until I woke up fully clothed the next day."
Luckily, the group of girls who found her managed to use the missed calls from her boyfriend on her lock screen to contact him so he could pick her up.
The next day her boyfriend then told her she'd passed out immediately upon arriving home and he'd been unable to wake her up.
They decided to check Olivia's body, and found a mark on her leg that wasn't there before, which corresponded to a liquid mark on her dress in the same place.
Her friend also had no idea what had happened, having lost Olivia at some point near Boar Lane.
Olivia said: "I didn't believe him. I'm never sick when I go out - I can handle my drink.
"But then I took my dress off and found this mark. At first I didn't think anything of it but I sent pictures to my family and they said I needed to get it checked."
Olivia went to the hospital to get it checked out and was told it was probably a rash.
However, she was advised to contact the police regardless - and after she reached out on 101, officers came down to her house to look at the mark and conduct some tests.
They didn't find anything in her urine, but Olivia said she was told traces might have left her urine within 12 hours - it had been 24 hours by that point.
She says the police told her she was most likely a victim of spiking and agreed it looked like a needle mark.
Olivia added that the mark has since scabbed over, as if there was an actual puncture to her skin.
She doesn't remember feeling anything while in Manahatta, but doesn't think she went anywhere else.
She said: "The police are investigating it and although I'll probably never find out who did this I want to spread awareness and hopefully stop it happening to someone else.
"What really worries me is how many people have messaged me since saying it's happened to them too. One girl said she wouldn't have thought to report it if she hadn't seen my Facebook post.
"This just shows the importance of reporting anything suspicious, staying with friends - not being in situations alone, I’m very lucky I was found by the right people.
"And for bars need to put more things in place to stop this, detectors and searches. I purposely went to Greek street as I’d class that as the nicer end of Leeds but it just shows nowhere is safe."
Olivia is also hoping to locate her belongings - especially her Louis Vuitton bag, which contained her ID and more, and can be seen in the picture of her.
Manahatta Greek Street has been contacted for comment.
