Goa minister's son linked to my daughter's death, says Scarlett's mother


Panaji, Jul 29 (IANS): In a new online crowdfunding appeal, Fiona Mackeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Keeling who was sexually assaulted and left to die on a Goa beach in 2008, said that she needs 20,000 pounds to source information and video footage which allegedly links a Goa minister's son to her daughter's murder.

"I am certain there is more evidence out there to convict the right men of the right crimes in Scarlett's case. An Indian man tried to make contact with me to tell me he saw Scarlett with some men on the night she died, she was trying to get away and he went to help but they threatened him and he left," Mackeown said on crowdfunding site www.justgiving.com while making a pitch for the money.

"I was also told by a respectable person that there was a video containing evidence connected to Scarlett's murder and the minister's son," she said.

Last year, a trial court in Goa acquitted two beach shack workers of culpable homicide and sexual assault charges due to lack of evidence, following a two-year long investigation and a six-year trial.

According to documents which were brought on record by the prosecution during the trial, Scarlett was allegedly sexually assaulted by Samson D'Souza and Placido Carvalho in February 2008 after allegedly plying her with drugs and left to die at the Anjuna beach.

The case was first investigated by the Goa Police, whose probe was riddled with inconsistencies and constant petitioning by Mackeown resulted in the case being transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

But Mackeown, in her letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi some months back, had suggested that the CBI probe was compromised.

"I feel like the authorities in India are just going through the motions as ours was a very public case but dragging it out to wear us as a family down and hope the public forget. The truth can not be exposed with half an investigation as those that tried to cover up Scarlett's murder were never investigated due to political connections," she has also said in the appeal.

  

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    Sat, Jul 29 2017

    Some of the other victims who's cases were never investigated properly and no one was prosecuted for the crimes to this day leaving the killers walk free.

    Caitanya Holt, 30 years, from USA
    Died January 12, 2016, in Korgaon, Goa

    Felix Dahl, 22 years, from Finland
    Died January 28, 2015, in Patnem, Goa

    James (Jimmy) Durkin, 34 years, from UK
    Died February 15, 2015, in Canacona, Goa

    Kyle Arndt, 25 years, from Canada
    Died December 25, 2013, in Arambol, Goa

    Michael Harvey, 34 years, from UK
    Died March 1, 2010, in Ashwem, Goa

    Martin Neighbour, 39 years, from UK
    Died March 18, 2010, in Arambol, Goa

    Denyse Sweeney, 34 years, from UK
    Died April 16, 2010, in Anjuna, Goa

    Michael Harvey, 34 years, from UK
    Died March 1, 2010, in Ashwem, Goa

    Stephen Bennett, 40 years, from UK
    Died December 2008 in Maharashtra, India

    Jonathan Ray Burbank, 27 years, from USA
    Died May 28, 2005, in Anjuna, Goa

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