When the body of Scarlett Keeling was found in Goa many believed her family’s unconventional lifestyle was to blame. In The Telegraph, UK, Cassandra Jardine meets her mother Fiona MacKeown:
A week after Fiona MacKeown (Photo: left) flew back from India with the body of her daughter Scarlett Keeling, life on her small-holding in north Devon is regaining a semblance of normality.
Children, dogs and hens are running around between half a dozen caravans, a barn and the two-storey dwelling where I find Fiona sitting, tattooed and defiant, like a New Age frontierswoman.
The expression on her fine-boned, weather-beaten face is wary but welcoming. Since Scarlett’s body was found on Anjuna beach in Goa, early on the morning of February 18, she has had reason to be both cautious of, and grateful for, the interest stirred up by her battle for justice.
Previously in AW:
- Travel advisory
- A Brazilian in Goa
- Fiona MacKeown: naive, not negligent
- Creaky paradise
- What her mother had to see
- Another family’s search for truth
- Who killed Scarlett Keeling?





considering the justice system there is all likelihood of u getting threats from cops, ministers and god knows who else.
on second thoughts, i don’t think even god knows.