A warehouse manager told a a court how she went to
A warehouse manager told a a court how she went to hospital suffering from an asthma attack and woke up believing a nurse had ‘had his wicked way’ with her.
The 34-year-old mother of two had ‘surreal’ and ‘disjointed’ memories about being treated by Kevin Cobb, 38.
She spent the rest of her stay at St Peter’s Hospital in Cherstey weeping in bed and later spoke to her sister about what had happened.
‘It was just a light hearted comment, but I almost felt I had been given something at the hospital and someone had their wicked way with me,’ she recalled.
‘Possibly somebody had given something to me to have sex with me.
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Cobb, 38, is said to have drugged four women for sex, killing a colleague who suffered an adverse reaction to the sedative Midazolam.
The asthma sufferer said she developed the condition in the 1970s and experienced difficulty in breathing.
She was given ventilators but by 1998 she said her condition was ‘deteriorating quite rapidly.
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The mother went to hospital on January 6 last year but was not seen by a doctor that day at St Peters after waiting four hours.
Her condition was so bad the following day she asked her ten-year-old daughter to call an ambulance.
She was taken to the Accident and Emergency department and placed in a cubicle.
Female nurses gave her blood tests and antibiotic jabs, then Cobb came to see her as she lay in the cubicle with her partner.
‘I was thought he was a nurse.
He told me he was going to find me a bed,’ she recalled.
‘He said he was going to have to move me out of the cubicle and into one of the rooms.
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She and her partner were taken to a treatment room and Cobb left them alone while the woman changed and washed.
When her partner had left the hospital, Cobb returned with a various drugs.
‘He said he had to syringe or flush out the thing in had in the back of my hand,’ the woman said.
‘I have no idea what it is called, but it goes straight into the vein so they can add medication or anything like that.
‘He had a syringe with him.
It was already loaded.
I offered him my hand.
He put the syringe in and pushed the plunger.
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The prosecution claim Cobb injected the woman with the drug instead of using a neutral fluid to flush out the device.
‘I just felt tired.
I wanted to go to sleep.
It was not immediate, it was a few minutes.
It was probably almost immediate,’ the woman continued.
She added: ‘I do not remember going to sleep.
I can definitely remember once he came back in and asked me if I was alright.
‘I said yes and I fell back to sleep again.
The next definite thing I can remember is phoning my partner at about 11am the next day.
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The woman who was a light sleeper, sensed something was wrong when she realised she had not be woken up once in a busy Accident and Emergency department struggling to cope with a flu epidemic.
‘I just knew something was not right.
I just felt weird, really weird,’ she told the jury.
‘It was just like a dream-like state.
It was very surreal, very disjointed.
‘I was very, very tearful.
I could not stop crying all the time, especially in the evening of the 8th.
I sat up all night crying.
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She was desperate to leave the hospital but was kept in for another night.
The mother did not contact the police until she received a letter from the hospital asking for women who believed something may have happened to them to come forward.
Cobb later stood on an identity parade and the woman named him in court as the man she picked out.
Cobb, of Michaelman Close, Yately, Hants, denies the manslaughter of Miss Susan Annis ,a Crawley Hospital nurse of Collwell Road Haywards Heath.
He further denies two charges of rape, four of administering a stupefying substance with intent to rape, four of administering a stupefying substance with intent to indecently assault.
The trial continues.
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