She added that she was finally offered help by a nurse from the crowd and her sister-in-law and a student nurse, Sophie, who changed the outcome of the situation. She said she was left 'begging and screaming' for help while festival staff sat and stared at Chloe laying on the floor.Īt one point, William was forced to run to the one of the festival's welfare tents, but was unable to find any medics and instead had to ask for help from volunteers who were 'disrespectful, patronising and unhelpful', Natasha claimed. Natasha claimed that Chloe, who works in the ambulance service, would have died if she really had gone into cardiac arrest as there was 'no equipment, medication or staff qualified' to help her. She said that Chloe's collapse was called in as a 'crash call', which is used to indicate when a person is suffering a cardiac arrest, which later proved not to be the case, but medics were still slow to respond. ![]() Miss Dines said the Government carefully considered the case for legislation. The committee previously said a specific spiking offence would have 'several benefits', including increasing reporting of incidents, facilitating police work by improving data and 'sending a clear message to perpetrators that this is a serious crime'. She also said the Government plans to consult on the potential changing of statutory guidance to include 'explicit reference to spiking being illegal and give examples of such spiking'. The minister confirmed the Government's position in a letter to Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson, who chairs the Home Affairs Committee, written in December but published by the committee on Wednesday. Home Office minister Sarah Dines said a new law is 'unnecessary' because there are 'already several offences which cover incidents of spiking' and the Government has not found 'any gap in the law that a new spiking offence would fill'. ![]() The Government said it will not create a specific offence for spiking – despite committing last year to look at new legislation.
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