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A man who crushed an illicit sedative into a woman’s lager can aTher inviting her back to his hotel room told police it was only to get them ‘asleep’. fiomas Jones, of 10 Sandholm Place, Yoker in Glasgow, appeared at Oban SherifiCourt charged with crushing a tablet containing a highly potent drug into a can of lager without the woman knowing.
He pleaded guilty to that charge and sentencing was deferred until March 27 for criminal justice and social work reports to be carried out as well as a restriction of liberty assessment. On February 25, the court heard how Jones, 48, had approached the woman as people were leaving Skippinish in George Street at about 2am on November 3, 2017. He invited her back to his room in a town centre hotel for a drink and there was a suggestion they might do some cocaine. In Jones’s room, the woman accepted a can of lager, went to the toilet, then came back, picked up her can and took a sip. ‘She immediately noticed a gritty texture in her mouth and saw residue of crushed power around the rim. She immediately challenged the man, took her phone out and started to record the conversation,’ said procurator fiscal Eoin McGinty.