A NIGHTCLUB popular with students said it believes more should be done to prevent spiking attacks and to ensure successful prosecutions.

It follows the release of a Home Affairs Committee report into spiking that said a belief that police “won’t do anything” adds to victims' reluctance to come forward.

Pryzm nightclub in West Street, Brighton, said it welcomes the findings of the report, paticuarly the need to collect further data to understand the scale of the issue.

A spokeswoman for Rekom UK, which operates the nightclub, said: “We take pride in providing safe and enjoyable nights out for our guests, supported by robust in-venue safety measures and highly trained security, bar and medical staff.

​“We will wholeheartedly support the government’s national strategy for prevention, detection and prosecution of spiking.”

A social media post, which drew significantly online attention in October last year, claimed a clubber at Pryzm had been spiked with a needle.

The nightclub said onsite medics treated a guest who suspected they had been spiked by injection and that an onsite drugs test came back negative.

Sussex Police said they did not receive any reports of needle spiking from that night and urged anyone who thinks they have been spiked to report it.

The Home Affairs Committee report said “not enough” is being done to support spiking victims and it will remain an “invisible crime” unless action is taken to improve awareness.

It said it is difficult to know the true scale because a culture of victim-blaming and a lack of coordinated support has meant many incidents are going unreported.

But creating a new criminal offence for spiking, which the Government is considering, would make victims more likely to come forward and signal to perpetrators that such behaviour will be punished.

The committee, which held an inquiry into spiking earlier this year, said places where spiking is more likely to occur, such as pubs, clubs and festivals, must be safe for all.

Local authorities and licensing authorities need to ensure that venues have adequate security and staff trained to identify spiking incidents, it said.