A WOMAN has told how she was drugged, beaten and mugged on a night out in Southend.

Amanda Partridge, 35, who lives in Southend, was out on the town with a friend.

They visited bars and later in the night Amanda suddenly became ill.

She told how she blacked out and was later discovered by the bouncers, in Queens Road, covered in blood, cuts and bruises.

Her phone and purse were gone.

She believes her drink had been spiked at some point during the evening.

She explained how the only thing she could recall were flashbacks of somebody grabbing her by the throat and also pulling her hair.

Amanda has since been sharing images of her injuries online in a bid to raise awareness.

She said: “By the time people found me I was crawling to a taxi rank trying to get help.

“I was dragging myself.

“My face was grazed.

“I was trying to make myself sick.

“I apparently kept saying ‘someone has given me something. I want it out of my body’.

“I was slurring my words.

“I had blood on me and I had wet myself.

“All I know is what I’ve been told from the people that found me.”

Amanda says her friend became ill too – and the next thing she remembers is waking up next to her children at home.

She added, in her interview with the Mail Online: “My children asked what I had done to my face and if I had been in a fight.

“I just want to make girls aware of what can happen.”

During the night Amanda had been in Revolution bar on Queens Road, Southend.

However a spokesman for venue said there had been no reports of anything untoward during the evening – and emphasised the bar had a very strict policy when it comes to drugs.

He said: “Revolution Bars Group strictly enforces a strong anti-drugs policy at all of its sites and take all incidents very seriously.

‘We have had no other reports of any incidents that evening, but should anyone have experienced anything untoward, we urge them to contact the police.

“Our policy is to co-operate fully with the police and make CCTV footage readily available to them.”

Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 - or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

A mother-of-four claims she was drugged, beaten and mugged on a night out after having her drink spiked in a bar.

Amanda Partridge was on a night out in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, when she left her drink with a friend while she went to the bathroom.

She says that bouncers later discovered her covered in blood, cuts and bruises down the road from Revolution bar, where she had been drinking.

When the carer, who also had her money and phone stolen, rang her number the next day, a man’s voice chillingly told her: ‘This isn’t your phone anymore’.

‘I was trying to make myself sick. I apparently kept saying, “someone has given me something. I want it out of my body.”

‘I was slurring my words. I had blood on me and I had wet myself. All I know is what I’ve been told from the people that found me.

The 35-year-old has no recollection of what happened apart from flashbacks of somebody grabbing her throat and hair

‘I don’t really remember anything but I’ve just got this thing in my head where someone had their hand over my throat and in my hair.

‘The people who were there have said they knew I wasn’t drunk and there was something wrong with me and that I couldn’t control my body.

‘I’m quite a strong-willed person which probably saved my backside. I’m not the sort of person that goes quietly.

‘I rang my phone the next day and somebody answered and said, “that’s not your phone anymore.”

‘My phone and money were taken. There was a lot of personal things on there. I don’t know who would have done it. I have got no enemies.’

Amanda says her friend admitted she had left their drinks in the smoking area that night and later went back for them.

She noticed her drink tasted funny and stopped drinking it, however she soon felt ill and decided to go home.

The next thing she remembers is waking up next to her children at home the following morning.

Amanda, who did not report the incident to police, said: ‘I don’t even know how I got back. It was horrendous.

My children were sat next to me and I couldn’t open my eyes. They said, “what have you done to your face?” They asked if I had been in a fight.

‘I’m always shouting at my children about them staying together. My friend told me she had left the drinks in the smoking area and then got them back.

‘Normally if I am leaving a drink, it is left. I don’t go back for it. She just handed it me back and I just drank it.

Amanda says her friend admitted she had left their drinks in the smoking area that night. She noticed her drink tasted funny and stopped drinking it, however she soon felt ill

‘I didn’t know. I just want to make girls aware of what can happen. It was me and a couple of girls and our partners on the night.

‘The men decided to go home and said, “you girls stay together” and that’s when everything went terribly wrong.

‘Someone must have watched the men leave us and thought we were easy targets.

‘I’ve had messages from a couple of girls that have said they were drugged that night as well. They don’t know anything either. They’re in the same situation as me.

‘I was so sick the next day I couldn’t stop throwing up. I couldn’t keep a sip of water down. It was an awful feeling.

‘I got checked out at the doctors for various things there was no bruising down there or anything that would suggest anything else had happened.’

A spokesperson for Revolution said: ‘Revolution Bars Group strictly enforces a strong anti-drugs policy at all of its sites and take all incidents very seriously.

‘We have had no other reports of any incidents that evening, but should anyone have experienced anything untoward, we urge them to contact the police.

‘Our policy is to cooperate fully with the police and make CCTV footage readily available to them.’