A dentist has admitted plotting to incapacitate his wife with a 'date rape' drug before she vanished but walked free from court.

Majid Mustafa, of Hull, initially denied intentionally encouraging an offence but dramatically changed his plea after jurors heard he wanted to use GHB on his wife to find out if she was cheating on him.

Prosecutors said Mustafa, 48, wanted to incapacitate Renata Antczak so he could use her fingerprint to access her mobile phone but never got hold of any GHB.

Doncaster Crown Court heard the dentist encouraged a man called Robert Lipinski to obtain the drug, which is usually associated with date-rape.

Renata Antczak has been missing for over a year (
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Jurors were discharged today after Mustafa entered a guilty plea before he was given a conditional 12-month discharge.

At court, it was revealed Ms Antczak was reported missing a year ago in Hull and has not been seen since.

Ms Antczak went missing after she dropped her daughter off at her primary school on April 25 last year. Mustafa previously claimed his wife had returned to her native Poland after being 'brainwashed' by a sect.

Mustafa and Robert Lipinski were arrested and charged with conspiracy to administer a noxious substance but the charge was dropped against Lipinski in December.

Renata Antczak with husband Majid Mustafa (
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At Mustafa's trial, the jury was not told of her disappearance and judge Mark Bury said his conviction had nothing to do with her vanishing.

The court heard Mustafa used various surveillance methods to investigate his wife's actions and movements.

It was claimed he encouraged Lipinski to get hold of GHB from Poland. The court heard Lipinski was already trying to obtain the drug to use on his own wife.

Mustafa walked free from court after he received a 12-month conditional discharge (
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Judge Bury stressed Mustafa was never in possession of GHB.

Sentencing him, Judge Bury said: "You are not charged with, still less convicted, in connection with her disappearance."

Judge Bury also said: "There are many people whose partners, unhappily, are unfaithful. There are very few people who would want to drug them with GHB to try and find out what was going on."

The judge said that he was taking the unusual step of imposing a conditional discharge partly because there had been no actual harm done to anyone and also because Mustafa had already spent five-and-a-half months in custody on remand last year.

Mustafa feared Renata Antczak was having an affair and wanted to incapacitate her to unlock her phone (
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But the judge said that period of remand could only have been imposed due to ongoing inquiries relating to Ms Antczak's disappearance.

Ms Antczak, 49, was last seen in the Kingswood area of Hull and was reported missing on April 25 last year.

Police have made a number of appeals to try and find her and the search continues to be a major inquiry for Humberside Police who launched a murder investigation.

Mustafa, of Beamsley Way, Kingswood, Hull, admitted one count of intentionally encouraging an offence.

The charge states that between March 30 and April 25 last year, he encouraged Robert Lipinski to obtain a noxious substance so that it could be unlawfully administered to Renata Antczak with the intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy.

Mustafa left court saying he just wanted to go back to Hull and see his family.