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British woman accuses Goa government and police for hushing up her daughter’s murder

Scarlett Keeling’s mother Fiona on Wednesday accused Goa government and police department of hushing up the case of her daughter’s murder. Fiona was speaking with
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Scarlett Keeling’s mother Fiona on Wednesday accused Goa government and police department of hushing up the case of her daughter’s murder. Fiona was speaking with the media outside the children’s court yesterday blamed the earlier government saying that the change in government had given her an element of hope. Read the complete report here.

[su_expand more_text=”READ MORE” less_text=” ” height=”0″ hide_less=”yes” link_style=”button” link_align=”center”]The final arguments in regards to the alleged murder of Scarlett Keeling are going on in the Children’s court in Panaji. Fiona MacKeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Keeling Whose body was found on Anjuna Beach in bruise condition she was allegedly drugged and raped by the accused in the year 2008, continues to be under the impression that he daughter was left to die on the beach by the accused and that the government and police had tried to hush up her daughter’s murder.

The case of Scarlett Keeling had raised the concerned over the over the safety of a woman on the Goa’s most popular beaches. “I believe my daughter is murdered. I have seen the injuries on her body and it would have taken some force to injure her like that,” she told reporters on Wednesday outside the Goa Children’s Court, where the trial’s final round of arguments are currently on. “I think the defense is just trying to make it seem like an accident. I believe she was murdered and I believe that will come through,” she added

Scarlett Keeling, 15, was sexually assaulted and left to die at Anjuna beach on February 18, 2008, by two beach shack hands, which according to the police had also spiked her drinks. After initially dismissing the case as a suicide, police were later forced to register a case of attempted murder after a campaign by MacKeown, along with her lawyer Vikram Varma.

Some police officials were also suspended for tampering with evidence at the time. The case was finally handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), by the then Congress-led coalition government of Goa. The trial into the Keeling case started in 2010 and nearly 70 witnesses were examined over the past six years.

MacKeown, who in her statement to the Goa Children’s court had accused former Home Minister Ravi Naik and his son of trying to cover up the probe into her daughter’s death, now says a change in government had given her an element of hope.

“I think much has changed since the last eight years. I think police interfered and tried to cover it (the investigation) up. It was supported by the government, some of the police and some (from) the government. Now it seems different,” she said.

“There is a different government in place. Some of the policemen, who were there, are not there. But I do hope the change is for the better,” she added.

Source: IANS (maya/pgh/vt)

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