Velvet-curtained private booths where dancers thrust their gym-honed buttocks and pert breasts at grateful punters are doing brisk business. Later, the motley collection of stags — some in garish fancy dress — will decant into this beautiful city to dance the night away in its raucous clubs and bars, where a bottle of lager sells for as little as a pound.
Last week an inquest heard how satellite TV fitter Paul Bush, 36, from Weymouth was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell while in the Hungarian capital on a stag do. His neck was snapped and his trousers were around his ankles. His shoes and socks were removed and his wallet and phone were missing.
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But last week British coroner Sheriff Payne refused to rule out foul play. Anyone really drunk is a potential target. Budapest is awash with working girls and strippers vying for the disposable cash of drunken out-of-towners. Other girls are offering something more titillating.
For those with fuller wallets, stars from. But it is in this febrile anything-goes atmosphere that stags can find themselves being taken advantage of. Tibor told me that at the more ruthless end of the market the working girls offer just one service — robbery.
Sometimes they spike their drinks. There are many instances of this. Like many stag parties, when they arrived in Budapest the lads were taken on a six-bar pub crawl by a guide, beginning at 8. They scream and shout and throw things around. They do stuff they would never do at home.
