Fiona MacKeown, mother of slain British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, has decided to hold back her visit to India awaiting the lower court's observation in a petition filed against her by an NGO.
Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, has decided to take her daughter's body back to her hometown for the final rites next week.Scarlett was allegedly drugged, raped and murdered on Goa's popular Anjuna beach on February 18. Two locals - barman Samson D'souza and an alleged drug dealer Placido Carvalho - have been arrested on the charge of drugging, raping and murdering Scarlett.
"I am happy that the PSI who initially goofed up the case was dismissed from service. But I want the police to investigate his conduct and why he behaved that way," Fiona Mackeown said. Fiona alleged that the PSI's conduct could have stemmed from the influence of some politicians, senior police officers or criminals themselves. She will be writing to Chief Secretary J P Singh, seeking a probe into Nerlon's role in the episode.
Carvalho was arrested along with Samson D'Souza for drugging, raping and leaving Scarlette to die on Goa's popular Anjuna beach on February 18. President of children's court Desmond D'costa released Carvalho on a surety of Rs 25,000 and asked him to surrender his passport before the state police within seven days.
Sub Inspector Nerlon Albuquerque, who investitgated the death of 15-year-old Scarlette, was earlier suspended. Prima facie Albuquerque was found to be involved in sabotaging the investigation, a senior police officer said.
Scarlett, 15, who was holidaying in Goa with her mother and siblings, was found dead on the popular beach on February 18, 2008. The cause of death, according to the autopsy report, was drowning.
The police constable who shifted Scarlet's body away from the beach came to know about her name a month later, that too through newspapers, he told the court on Wednesday.
Michael Mannion, 35, a British national, who became a crucial eye witness to Scarlette's death is feeling 'stuck' in Goa after the state police refused to lift is look out notice.
Several human rights and other groups had also voice doubts over the veracity of the murder probe. The teenager's mother, Fiona Mackeown, unsatisfied with the police probe and alleging cover up in the entire matter, had demanded that the case be investigated by Central agencies.
Goa Police on Sunday questioned the validity of the final forensic report on British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling's death suggesting that she was murdered and said the doctor who prepared the report spoke as if he was witness to the incident. Forensic expert Dr Silvano Sapeco, who gave the final report, is also under the cloud as according to police, he should have made these findings during the first autopsy itself.
Almost winding up her crusade against the flourishing drug trade in the coastal state, Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British girl Scarlett Eden Keeling, has moved to an undisclosed destination in South Goa fearing for her life, allegedly from the drug mafia. "There is no point in continuing the fight if state police are not interested in cooperating. The men in uniform are busy leveling allegations against me rather than probing what I say," Fiona said.
The statements made by witnesses in the Central Bureau of Investigation's chargesheet in the Scarlett Eden Keeling case has exposed the underbelly of drug cartel run in Goa through beach shacks. British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling was found dead at Anjuna on February 18, 2008.
The Goa police have summoned Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, for questioning on Saturday at Panaji's juvenile police station. Mackeown's advocate Vikram Varma said two policemen who appeared at Fiona's residence on Friday night served the summons under the Goa Children's Act.
Sexual assault of two foreign teenagers and allegations of a cover-up sparked law and order concerns in Goa where terror threat has hit tourist inflow during the peak season this year. However, the state with a history of political uncertainty saw the Congress-led government surviving in office despite two attempts at rebellion within the coalition.
Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British girl Scarlett Eden Keeling, on Thursday said that she would get a third forensic examination done on her daughter's body in the UK. "I have been advised by my friends to get the examination conducted as I may uncover some forensic evidence in that," Fiona said, outside the Goa Medical College and the hospital morgue, where she had come to collect the body along with her lawyer.
"We are writing to the Home and External Affairs ministry not to issue her visa again to come to India. Her entry into India should be banned," Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik, who was accused by Fiona of having links with the drug trade, told media persons in Panaji. He said the state is inquiring into her background and source of income.
If slain British girl Scarlette Eden Keeling's mother Fiona Mackeown is charged and convicted under a provision of Goa Children's Act for "neglecting" her minor daughter, she faces upto three years in jail or a fine of Rs 1 lakh. Section 8 (1) of Goa Children's Act, 2003, reads: "All children should be assured of safe environment. A safe environment is an environment in which he or she will not be abused in any way and his/her development will be nurtured."
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The woman's face was smashed with a blunt object. It is a case of murder, police said.
Ganesh Dhene said there had only been two or three mango trees in the grove, from where he found the skeleton, which he specified had no flesh on it.
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