Nearly four months after her body was found, investigation into the case has been taken up by the CBI into the high-profile Scarlett Keeling murder case.
Fiona MacKeown, mother of British schoolgirl Scarlette Keeling, who was found dead on a beach in Goa, has admitted that she was imprisoned for a year as a teenager for stabbing her employer after he allegedly tried to force himself on her friend, local media reported on Saturday. "It's something that happened, and I learnt a lot from it," 43-year-old MacKeown told The Times. "But it has no relevance to Scarlette's case," she said.
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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.
The body of Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager who was raped and murdered in Goa, was brought back home by her mother on Monday night. Fiona MacKeown arrived at the Heathrow Airport on a flight from Mumbai with her daughter's coffin. ''It is really good to be back. Now, I just want to bury my daughter. Then I will return to Goa. I am worried it will all die down there now I have left,'' Fiona said. The teenager, from north Devon, was on holiday with her family.
"I do understand that for medico forensic requirements, a certain amount of tissue from various organs is required. However, to my mind the removal of the entire organs from the body of my daughter is an action far in excess of the needs of the forensic scientist," she said.
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.
Three years after the mysterious death of Scarlett Keeling on a Goa beach, the body of the British teenager is still lying in a mortuary in the UK as her family awaits a CBI nod for her last rites.
The CBI today chargesheeted two persons in connection with the 2008 murder case of British teenager Scarlett Keeling for allegedly outraging her modesty which lead to her death.
Fiona Mackeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, who was found dead on Anjuna beach six years ago, has accused the erstwhile Congress government of "hushing up" the case and demanded speedy justice for her daughter.
Two Goa youths, who are accused in the death of British teenager Scarlett Eden, may file a defamation suit against her mother Fiona Mackeown. "My clients are exploring the possibility of filing a defamation suit against Fiona along with the Goa police and the media," said Advocate Jose Peter Dsouza, a lawyer representing accused Placido Carvalho and Julio Lobo.
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.
Today, as Fiona fights the authorities in India over the cause of her daughter's death -- initially passed off as death by drowning, before rape and drugs and murder were added to the cocktail -- the Daily Telegraph, London, met the mother in England.
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First a case of drowning, then rape and murder and now drug overdose -- the list of theories surrounding the death of British tourist Scarlette Keeling is endless. And even though the Goa police claims to have cracked the, doubts still linger on whether the cops have hushed up this case further. If one looks closely at the manner in which the investigation has been conducted, it raises several doubts.
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''I hope the Indian police are prosecuted for lying from the beginning. The police system is so corrupt that when the media pressure dies down, they will start messing about with the forensic results,'' said Fiona. She also announced that officers in Britain had agreed to carry out a post-mortem on the body, as she wanted tests carried out in case forensic results from the two post-mortems that were conducted in Goa were changed.
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The Goa police arrested Samson D'Souza for his alleged involvement in the rape and murder of 15-year-old Scarlette Keeling. D'Souza was last seen with the British tourist on the night of her murder. The police say there is evidence to prove that he had sex with Scarlette on the night of her murder. D'Souza has been charged with rape under the Indian Penal Code and Goa Children's Act.
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.
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More than four years after British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found dead on the Ajuna beach in Goa, she was finally laid to rest in a funeral held in southwest England.
Fiona MacKeown, who visited Goa last week to follow up on the murder case, tells The Guardian that the man's identity is "common knowledge" in Goa. "I was approached by many people who told me his name. He is a powerful person with money. It would explain why the police have tried to cover up the case," she has been quoted as saying by the newspaper
Goa Children's Court Judge Vandana Tendulkar acquitted Samson D'Souza and Placido Carvalho of all the charges in the eight-year-long high profile death case.
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In the backdrop of outrage over the rape-cum-murder of a British teenaged girl in Goa, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Tuesday insisted that the state was the "safest" destination for tourists as he briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the incident. "I appeal to all tourists Goa is the safest place and Goans are nice people," he told reporters after a meeting with Dr Singh where Goa MPs Shantaram Naik and Francisco Sardinha were also present.
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