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Needle spiking ‘should be treated with same urgency as terrorism’, MP says

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Spiking with needles in nightclubs should be treated with the same urgency as terrorism, an MP has told a parliamentary debate has heard.

MPs were discussing a petition, created by university graduate Hannah Thomson, calling on the Government to make it law for nightclubs to search guests on arrival to prevent 'harmful weapons' getting inside.

Miss Thomson, 24, started the petition, which now has more than 172,000 signatures, due to her concerns over the spate of needle spiking and realising she had never been searched in her four years at university. READ MORE: 'Being pregnant is not a get out of jail free card', judge tells drug dealing mum-to-be - before sparing her prison Speaking at the Westminster Hall debate, Warwick MP Matt Western

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