Scarlette keeling case:what an embarassement its turining out to be

[suma25]

Scarlette was murdered, reveals coroner Karn Kowshik CNN-IBN DOC TELLS ALL: The doctor's unwilling statement confirms Scarlette's family's suspicion. Panaji: It's a case that has generated international attention. Did the Goa Police conspire to cover up Scarlette Keeling's murder as just another drowning death? One man possibly has the answer — the coroner who carried out the first post mortem on Scarlette. After the controversy, like everyone involved in the case, he too had kept mum. But when CNN-IBN interviewed him on hidden camera, he revealed shocking details of a police cover-up. The doctor (name concealed to protect identity) was part of the team that carried out the first post-mortem on Scarlette Keeling. The Goa Police used the autopsy report to conclude that Scarlette had accidentally drowned, but the doctor says on hidden camera the report had clearly mentioned that the British teenager could have been murdered. "The person who got the body for post-mortem is a man named Mr Lakshya Amondkar. I spoke to him. After that, he went and informed his superior, the sub-inspector at Anjuna, Nerlon Albuquerque. Between the two of them something transpired. I had informed Mr Lakshya Amondkar that the manner in which the person had died — in the water, with injuries and drugs — chances are that it was a homicide," says the doctor. CNN-IBN has access to signed statements by a witness, Max Bulgakov, who says he identified Scarlette on the beach. Yet, the doctor says he was told by by Nerlon Albuquerque that the body had not been identified. He also says that the police concealed details of the witnesses. "Who came to identify the body, who was she last seen with? I asked Nerlon to take the details and provide them to me because I had to confirm or exclude sexual intercourse. I asked him to bring as many people as there were for that was material evidence for me," says the doctor. CNN-IBN: So did you get that material evidence from them? Doctor: No, they did not cooperate with me. In 2003, both the doctor and Nerlon Albuquerque were suspended over a similar incident, when a murder was reportedly made to look like a suicide. Here's what happened in that case: "The deceased in that case had multiple injuries on the body. He (Nerlon Albuquerque) kept vehemently saying that it was a suicide. He said he had a statement before the magistrate saying it was a suicide," the doctor reveals. The doctor's unwilling statement confirms what Scarlette's mother has been saying all along — that her daughter was murdered. But the question is, why did Nerlon Alberquerque do this? That's something that the police and Goa government will have answer. UNANSWERED QUESTIONS bullet Why did the police take weeks to admit that the 15-year-old had been murdered? bullet Why is the police underplaying the rape angle? bullet Why did the first autopsy report differ substantively from the second — the first showed five bruises, while the second showed 50. bullet Did the police and Goa Medical College doctors try and hush up the case? bullet Why was Scarlette on the beach till five o clock in the morning and who was she with? bullet What was the motive for the murder? The question of crime against women came up in Parliament on Tuesday and Tourism minister Ambika Soni's response was — to say the least — incredible. "Except for accident figures that have gone up, comparative figures released by the Ministry of Home Affairs reveal that crime against women has gone down," she said.

[suma25]

first the coverup by the cops then the expose then mother coming in the media against the cops and now the cops are trying to arrest her under some obscure law and ganging up on her.sad really what an embarassement!!!

[suraj]

This is an outrage but the saddest part is that people in India have become so used to the corruption that there is a lot of apathy No one cares

[beetle]

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS bullet Why did the police take weeks to admit that the 15-year-old had been murdered?...........They tried to hush it up to keep the mafia angle away. bullet Why is the police underplaying the rape angle?It has a bad effect on tourism.This is not an isolated incidence...there have been others but all hushed up. bullet Why did the first autopsy report differ substantively from the second — the first showed five bruises, while the second showed 50...........................They tried to cover it up... bullet Did the police and Goa Medical College doctors try and hush up the case?...Probably. bullet Why was Scarlette on the beach till five o clock in the morning and who was she with?......She probably (including the mother) is a part of the white trash tourist(as they are called who visit goa only for the drugs and related stuff.The mother left her in the care of a 25 yr old tour guide who apparently treated her well (made her eat healthy food and fruit juice). If the mother truely believes that then she is the most stupid person on earth. No one stays in anjuna beach for healthy food and fruit juice ...or she is a big liar. bullet What was the motive for the murder?....She was probably there for drugs .She was high and alone and as has been the case in recent times ...was sexually assaulted/nmurdered. Such cases have been on the rise because the victims are often drug abusers who are scared to go to the police which is in any case notorious fortaking advantage of these forigners. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goa ...specially some parts are now ruled by the drug mafia and the russian prostitution mafia. All of course with the help of the politicians. The mafia is now pretty strong and even the locals are scared of protesting. A lot of the tourist who visit goa these days are the second/third grade tourists who are only looking for drugs,illicit sex or children for perverse pleasure. The Goa govt seems to be fully aware of this and hence the cover up seems like the usual political interrference by the politicians. The mother has to also take a major blame here. She got her minor child to a place knowing very well what it offers. Left the child in the care of people of illrepute often for days.Why get a child prone to alcohol and drug abuse to a place where she is likely to get out of control? How can you leave your minor child in the careof strangers for such a long time? Howcan you not know that your child spends her nights on the beaches drugged and drunk with men who take advantage of her? The mother is responsible for putting her daughter in a position where she was very likely to be abused. She should take the blame too. As for the govt....the lesser said ,the better. It looks more and more like the govt and the police are there for the protection of the criminals. God save Goa from these politicians!

[Zap_Brannigan]

Is Goa trying to become a bangkok ?

[Gambit]

The Russian mafia is also gaining ground in Goa .

[suraj]

Scarlett murder case solved, claims Goa Police PANAJI: Goa police have arrested yet another man and with it claimed to have cracked the case of the murder of British teenager Scarlett Keeling, who it said died due to "drug overdose and drowning" after being repeatedly raped on the beach. "Prime suspect Placido Carvalho, who was arrested on Wednesday night, has confessed that he gave her drugs, raped her and left her on the beach. As the girl remained unconscious, she died during the high tide," a senior police officer and in-charge of the investigations, told reporters. The half-clad body of Scarlett was found on Goa's popular Anjuna beach on February 18. Meanwhile, Sub Inspector Nerlon Albuquerque of Anjuna station was on Wednesday suspended for alleged laxity in investigating the case. The family of the 15-year-old girl, which had earlier expressed doubts over the police role, expressed happiness at the progress in the investigations. The official said Carvalho, who has been booked on murder charge, and the other arrested persons Samson D'souza, have both confessed to raping the 15-year-old few hours before she was found dead on the beach. Thorough interrogation throughout Wednesday night confirmed that the girl had consumed high doses of cocaine and alcohol when she entered the beach shack during wee hours on the fateful day and was then given ecstasy tablets by Carvalho, police said. Carvalho then allegedly raped the girl, who was in a semi-conscious state and left her on the beach, he said. Prior to that, Samson D'souza, 29, a barman working on the shack, was seen in a "compromising position" with the girl by an eye witness. After Scarlett was found dead on the Anjuna beach, her family had contended that she was raped and murdered. Initially reluctant to treat it as a murder case, Goa Police carried out a detailed probe after a second autopsy was conducted by a team of doctors here following a demand by the girl's mother Fiona MacKeown. Expressing happiness over the progress of the investigations in the case, the British family's lawyer said the state should continue probing into the `criminal-police-politician nexus' flourishing in the tourist hotspot. "We are happy that police have conducted investigations properly but we want that police's act of misguiding Fiona Mackowen (Scarlett's mother) should also be probed," Vikram Varma, lawyer for Scarlett's family, said. He said the arrests have been made in the right direction. "But the key for the entire incident is the nexus between criminals, police and politicians which should be unearthed," he said. The family members feel that police have done half their job. "Scarlett's death investigation was just a part of the entire case. The other half is police complicity in trying to hide the crime. The entire episode of abetment of crime by the police needs to be investigated," he said. The lawyer said the reason why Scarlett's mother was upset was because police were lying to her. On March 11, before Albuquerque was stripped of all his ‘authority’ investigations into the case were shifted from him to a senior police inspector Braz Menezes. This is the second time Albuquerque has been suspended after 2005 when he came under the scanner for trying to present a murder case as suicide. http://publication.samachar.com/pub_article.php?id=1509291&navname=General%20&moreurl=http://publication.samachar.com/newindianexpress/general/newindianexpress.php&homeurl=http://www.samachar.com

[CC1981]

Thats the problem with cocaine- it makes you so bloody horny that you are at an extremely high risk of sexual misconduct/being taken advantage of. Oh and if you are mixing cocaine and alcohol, you are kinda playing with your life. Too much cocaine can cause heart-failure and alcohol consumption while doing cocaine often ends up in cocaine overdose, simply because alcohol dampens the visible/neurological effects of cocaine, so you can end up doing too much. PS: As for Goa, WTF did you expect ? The two major economy of Goa is Feni (alcohol) and tourism. Where there is tourism, there is the sex industry. Period. I say the best way forward is legalizing prostitution and having a red-light district in parts of Goa. Face it, nomatter how hard you tried, you CANNOT stop prostitution,drugs and alcohol in a place like Goa, unless you went all Jihadi on the state. Its better to legalize it because that will cut the criminality out of it significantly and govt. will be able to keep track of drug usage & prostition a lot more efficiently, thus improving the risk factor for both the client and the service provider. But as long as it remains criminal offence, these kind of incidents will happen.

[rayne]

I guess a lot of illegal things though being available in the open, were not made a big deal .. Now all that will have to come out in the open and hence the coverups i think.