Man 'drugged, stripped and robbed'

A film director told a jury today how he was stripped and robbed of his £5,000 Rolex watch by a woman who spiked his wine with the so-called date rape drug Rohypnol.

Alexander Jovy, 34, said he was "traumatised" when he woke up with only fragments of memory about the night before.

He had met Selina Hakki in a Piccadilly nightclub and took her home in a taxi to his Maida Vale flat. The next morning he found his watch, a £2,000 Cartier clock, champagne and a £900 video camera had gone, the court heard.

"I felt very, very strange. I can't describe it. I stumbled around trying to get out of bed but I could not get up or move," he said. "It wasn't a hangover, it was just a blank, a gap in my head. I had just a few key memories, just fragments. It was a terrible feeling just not knowing."

The court heard that Mr Jovy was found to have traces of Rohypnol in his blood and urine and the drug was also found in wine glasses in his flat, together with Hakki's finger prints and her DNA on cigarette butts.

Hakki, 37, of Bow, has pleaded not guilty at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court to two charges of administering a stupefying or overpowering drug with the intent to steal, and two charges of theft.

Mr Jovy said he had been on a night out with friends from university in the Aura Club, behind the Ritz Hotel.

They had taken a table and he had had a number of drinks, mostly beer and vodka and lemonades. He said he remembered going home in a taxi with a woman whom he identified by pointing to Hakki in the dock.

"We went to my apartment but I don't have a clear recollection from then on," he said. "I remember she asked me if I had any red wine. I went to the kitchen and opened a bottle, poured it into two glasses and went back into the living room where she was sitting.

"I remember putting the glasses down and going to the bathroom while she was still in the living room with the bottle and the two glasses. I came back to the living room and started drinking the wine and shortly after the lady suggested we should get up and go to the bedroom. I got up, at which point I collapsed on the floor ... I remember that very clearly.

"I remember me collapsing and the two glasses breaking. She was next to me trying to help me up, then she helped me onto the bed and took my shirt off. I don't remember anything after that."

Mr Jovy woke up at 4.30 the next afternoon to find that Hakki was gone.

The court has heard that Hakki struck in September last year, 16 months after a similar attack on City banker Volker Vogler, whom she had met in the bar at the Hilton Hotel and accompanied back to his Chelsea flat.