Fiona MacKeown, mother of Scarlett Keeling who was murdered in Goa has passed on emails sent by her to a Spanish friend to the CBI.
Fiona MacKeown, mother of the British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling who was murdered near a Goa beach last year has passed on emails sent by her daughter a few days before the incident to the CBI.
Fiona MacKeown is the mother of 15-year old Scarlett who was murdered near Goa's prime Anjuna beach on February 18, last year.
The emails were sent to a Spanish person Keeling had befriended in Goa. Fiona has passed them on to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that is investigating the case.
"My 15-year-old daughter's last messages to a friend she had met in Goa paint a distressing picture of what was happening to her in her last few days and have made me question my decision to leave her behind while the rest of the family travelled down the Indian coast," Fiona was quoted as saying by
Sunday Times.
In one of the emails that recently surfaced, Keeling mentions travelling to Finland, Belgium, Thailand, Portugal and Peru. Keeling's body was brought to UK and is currently in a morgue in Exeter. However, several of her body parts are missing, MacKeown said, and hopes to have them released from the authorities in Goa.
"We'd spent six weeks in Goa and Scarlett loved it and was determined to stay. I knew nothing of Goa's seamy underworld. Everyone seemed so welcoming, so friendly, so generous: I left her in the care of a friend we'd seen every day, believing she'd be safe," Fiona added.
"I knew Scarlett had been thinking of going to Finland with the friends she'd made in Goa, but the mention of the other countries was new to me," her mother, Fiona added.
"It now seems foolish to have believed any such thing, given what was happening behind my back," she said.
"She clearly had plans I didn’t know about. She says she’d be making money. I have since learnt there's quite a strong drug link between the countries she talks about. It makes me wonder whether she was being primed to be a mule".
"Scarlett was not a child but a young woman who deserved a say in the decisions we made but if I set foot in India I could be arrested and held pending an investigation – perhaps for months," she said.
"So in 10 days' time, on the anniversary of Scarlett's death, I'll be here in Devon, thinking of her. A friend will lay flowers on the water in Goa, near where she was found. I wish it could be me."
Channel 4 will broadcast a documentary titled
Who Killed Scarlett? on Thursday.
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