When Dean Burns went for a quiet weekend drink with friends, he became the one of the many thousands of 'spiking' victims in the UK. The Reform UK county councillor for Ashford east has opened up for the first time about how the crime affected him and found out it had already struck two of his daughters. Simon Finlay reports...

Dean Burns, county councillor and family man, does not fit the stereotype of someone who might become the victim of a spiking attack. Yet it happened to him at a pub in Ashford in the past couple of months, and has clearly left a mark on the father-of-four.

One moment he was among friends, the next being helped virtually unconscious into a car to be taken home by his wife. Feelings of guilt, shame and embarrassment have, in time, given over to vulnerability an

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