Scarlett's body not be buried without missing organs: Fiona

PANAJI: Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British teenager, has said she would not bury Scarlett's body without the vital organs which are with the Goan authorities.
    
"I will wait till I get them (the organs). Without organs I am not going to bury the body," Fiona said.
    
Scarlett's body is currently with the UK authorities who are conducting the inquest autopsy on it. According to Fiona, the autopsy will take a few more days as it is a detailed one.
    
"I will not bury incomplete body. I want the organs back," Fiona said.
    
The 43-year-old mother is in Goa to follow up the case regarding the missing organs which were removed during two autopsies conducted in the Goa medical college and hospital here.
    
Scarlett had died on Goa's popular Anjuna beach on February 1. Investigations had revealed that she was drugged, raped and left to die in the shallow waters.
    
Two autopsies were conducted on the body in India while the inquest-autopsy being performed by the coroner's office in England had found that several body parts were missing.
    
According to her mother, stomach, both the kidneys, the uterus, the spleen and the pancreas were extracted from the body and not handed over to the UK authorities.
    
"These organs have been removed from my daughter's body without my consent," Fiona said raising the human rights violation issue.
    
Fiona said the Goan authorities were busy passing the bucks. "I am shunted from office to office. I have not been able to get the satisfactory reply," she said.