Scarlette's mum spent year in prison for half-murder

LONDON: The mother of Scarlette Keeling, who was allegedly murdered on a Goa beach on February 18, spent a year in jail for slitting the throat of a man she met at a party, her son has revealed.

Hal Keeling, 19, was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail of Britain that Fiona MacKeown, 43, was jailed for attempted manslaughter.

MacKeown’s son revealed his mother was 18 when she and a friend were charged with attempted murder. She served a year of a three-year sentence after the charge was reduced to attempted manslaughter following a trial in 1983, the daily reported.

“I haven’t been an angel in the past,” the mother, who is in Goa following her daughter’s murder, confessed to her nine children, according to Hal.

“She said she was very naive and a man they met at a party tried to get his heels into her. Mum said he was into black magic and she freaked out,” Hal was quoted as saying in the report.