The mother of a 15-year-old British girl, who was found dead on a beach in Goa under mysterious circumstances, claimed she was murdered and demanded a re-investigation into the case.
PANAJI: The mother of a 15-year-old British girl, who was found dead on a beach in Goa under mysterious circumstances, claimed she was murdered and demanded a re-investigation into the case.
"I don't trust Goa police and am frustrated the way they are delaying investigations in the death of my child," said Fiona Mackeown, who also accused the police of delaying the probe and doing a cover up.
"Police have lied on all the evidences... My daughter died in a horrible way," Fiona said in a letter to the police.
Scarlette Eden Keeling was found dead on the Anjuna beach on February 18 following which police had registered a case of death due to drowning. She and her mother were on a holiday in India.
However, the family members pointing to the bruises and other marks of assault on Scarlette's body suspect foul play and wanted the murder angle to be probed.
"The first autopsy report indicates 35 injury marks on Scarlette's body. Police is not doing anything despite glaring evidence," Vikram Varma, a family friend, said.
Varma claimed that there was ample evidence to confirm that the death was not due to drowning.
"There was no water in her body. She was found above the high tide line. There are bruises on her body. Everything helps us to conclude that she was killed," he said.
Fiona has already written to senior police officials in Goa condemning sub-inspector Merlon Albuquerque's media statements that the death was due to drowning.
She also said the conclusions reached by the police was clearly premature and displayed a rashness of pre-judgement unexpected of a responsible police officer.
"If required, we will even go to the National Human Rights Commission in this case," a family friend stated.
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