A concerned mother has spoken out about the terrifying moment her daughter started having seizures while out for drinks with friends, after she believes to have been spiked.
Neve Taylor, 19, had been out in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, seeing in the easing of lockdown restrictions last week when she began to take a turn for the worst, and was eventually rushed to hospital.
Looking back, the student midwife, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, says she believes an unidentified substance was put into her drink when she wasn't looking.
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It's a harrowing watch, but below is the video her mum took when she came to help at the scene:
Neve is convinced she was spiked because she hadn't been out for more than a few hours when she collapsed, at around 1.30am.
Her mum Sarah Scott, 50, has now shared images and footage of her daughter looking 'floppy and unresponsive' as she found her after having the seizures, to alert others to the dangers.
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Sarah explained that her friends rang her at 1.45am explaining what state Neve was in, so she rang an ambulance and headed straight to the club.
'I was there before the ambulance and I knew she'd been spiked as soon as I saw her because of the size of her pupils.
'I've seen Neve occasionally when she's had too much to drink and being sick but I've never seen her like this.
'She was laying on the pavement covered in mud, I don't know how she got that dirty.
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'She was screaming in pain. Neve is really mature but she was like a little girl and she was asking me why someone would do that to her".
She said: "When we got to the hospital she just went floppy and unresponsive and I was full time panicking.
'"She was convulsing and it was heartbreaking. Her teeth were chattering and when she was unconscious her face was screwing up in pain. It was pitiful to watch.
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"The doctors said she was reacting to what was in her body. She was put in the recovery position and monitored for the night and we left at around 11am.
"They said it's difficult to tell what is in someone's system unless it's in copious amounts.
"At the time, I was in mum mode and just telling her she was going to be ok but I think looking back, we realise how close we came to losing her."
Looking back on the night, Neve can't remember much, but says she begun to feel sick not long before she collapsed.
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"It was about ten minutes after my last drink I started to feel sick so my friends took me outside for some fresh air and I was fine. I walked out on my own but then when I was outside, I started vomiting and collapsed," she said.
Her mum said that she filmed to encounter to "raise awareness".
"It's not a finger pointing exercise, we just don't want this to happen to anyone else because this kind of thing will be on the increase with more people going out.
"The ramifications could last a lifetime if not fatal. I've been looking into it and I think the intentions of spiking are to disable someone to abduct or attack them. It's scary."
While Neve has now recovered physically, she's still psychologically scarred from the ordeal.
"I just hope this might provoke clubs into reviewing their security, searching people as they go in and increasing their security measures on the floor," Sarah said.
"Since I posted the videos, people have been getting in touch with similar experiences.
"If we could get clubs to increase their security measures that would be a blessing".
Featured Image Credit: Mercury Press