A beautician who spiked her friend's drink with MDMA has avoided jail.

Tanya Windsor laced young mum Chantelle Booker's cocktail with a high concentration of ecstasy and told her she'd included a "special ingredient" when her victim became "wobbly".

As a precaution shocked Ms Booker, who is staunchly anti drugs, phoned her mum to look after her young daughter.

Later 25-year-old Windsor sent her WhatsApp messages saying sorry for her actions and explaining she didn't know why she had done it.

Maidstone Crown Court heard how Windsor, of Manse Way, Swanley, watched as her friend reacted after partially drinking the mystery cocktail.

Prosecutor Ed Fowler said: "This case is about the defendant sprinkling MDMA in a cocktail. Windsor and Ms Booker had been friends for about 10 years.

"They had lost contact and had not seen each other for three years before this incident."

Windsor has now pleaded guilty to "administering a poison or noxious substance - MDMA - with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy" - a charge which carries a maximum five-year sentence.

Mr Fowler added the two friends had met up at Ms Booker's flat on May 15 2020 after messaging each other.

"The defendant had bought two cocktails in 500 millilitre bottles and Windsor encouraged Ms Booker to drink the one meant for her," he said.

Thirty minutes later, and after drinking only half of her drink, Ms Booker began to feel "wobbly", prompting her to ask what had been put in the drinks.

Windsor told her it was a "special ingredient called MD".

Mr Fowler added: "Ms Booker was shocked and upset by this and she noticed her pupils were enlarged and she felt uncomfortable. And as a precaution asked her mother to take care of her young daughter."

Later the two women exchanged WhatsApp messages and Windsor apologised and said she didn't know why she had done it.

The victim then called the police who took away samples for analysis which revealed a high concentration of MDMA.

Windsor was arrested and admitted lacing the cocktails and told officers she was aware Ms Booker was anti-drugs.

The victim told police she was shocked a friend would do it as she had never "touched drugs in her life" and has now been left with feelings of mistrust of her friends.

Mr Fowler said there was no ulterior motive for the bizarre practical joke.

Christopher Whiteman, defending, said Windsor had lost her job at a beauty spa because of Covid.

He added: "She has learned from this incident and has started to show signs of maturity. This was stupid, and reckless but was never intended causing any harm.

"Even to this day she can't explain her actions that night or what possessed her to act in the way she did."

Windsor was given a two-year community order and will have to attend 25 days of rehabilitation and pay £170 costs.

The judge, Recorder James Dawson, told her: "This was an extremely stupid thing for you to have done. But I accept that you are genuinely remorseful."

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