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(Updated on April 28)

Scarlett Keeling’s mother returns to India to find out why her daughter’s internal organs were removed without permission, reports The Guardian 

Scarlett Keeling, 15, was found on Anjuna beach in February and police initially said that she had died from accidental drowning. Her mother, Fiona MacKeown, maintained that her daughter had been attacked and a second autopsy revealed that she had been raped and killed.

Her body was brought back to the UK for a third post mortem examination, which revealed that her uterus, kidneys and stomach were missing. Her lawyer, Vikram Varma, said she would be speaking to the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation, who are to take over the case.

From The Telegraph, UK:

The mother of murdered teenager Scarlett Keeling (Photo right) has enlisted the help of Kate and Gerry McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell.

Fiona MacKeown, a mother of eight, has been vilified in the press for leaving her 15-year-old daughter to fend for herself in the Indian resort of Anjuna in Goa while she went travelling with her other children

Mr and Mrs McCann were similarly criticised for leaving their daughter Madeleine in their holiday apartment in the Algarve on the night she disappeared while they dined with friends nearby.

Scarlett’s body was found on Anjuna beach on February 18 and although police initially claimed the teenager had accidentally drowned, it was then established she had been raped and murdered.

More here, and here in Daily Mail:

Also in Daily Mail:

Scarlett Keeling left a letter asking for a funeral ‘party’ a year before she was murdered in Go

Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager murdered in Goa, wrote a letter a year before she was horrifically raped and murdered saying that she wanted her life to be celebrated when she died.

In a three-page letter the teenager poignantly questioned the meaning of life and said she wanted her short life to be celebrated rather than mourned.

Her mother Fiona MacKeown discovered the letter which had the words “READ ME” written in big letters on it shortly after she returned to the UK.

More:

Previously on AW:

• Goa murder: ‘When I remember again it’s like being hit’
• I was naive but I wasn’t negligent, says Scarlett Keeling’s mother Fiona MacKeown
• Goa: A creaky paradise
• Travel advisory: pack caution, common sense
• Scarlett Keeling: What her mother had to see
• The land where the hippy trail reaches a historic impasse

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