Now, justice will be done: Fiona

Now, justice will be done: Fiona
Scarlett Mum Won’t Be Charged With Neglect, Rests Easy
Preetu Nair | TNN

Panaji: Fiona MacKeown appears relaxed and even smiles as she talks about her teenage daughter and the impending journey back home. The uncertainty and distraught that was writ large on her face for the past few weeks has now been replaced with a sense of justice and self-confidence.
“In a day or two, I will take my daughter back home to perform the last rites. I hope to be with my children during the weekend,” said Fiona.
Fiona is hopeful she will be with Scarlett in their last few moments together. The 15-year-old Briton was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Anjuna beach on February 18. Though the case was initially dismissed as death due to drowning, Fiona raised a hue and cry, forcing a second autopsy which indicated homicide.
Fiona had insisted she wouldn’t take her daughter’s body back home till the state government ordered a CBI inquiry. Now with CM Digambar Kamat giving in, Fiona has a reason to smile. “I am relieved. Now justice will be done and the people who wronged my daughter will go to jail,” said Fiona, who ruffled a few feathers when she alleged that there is a nexus between politicians, police and the drug mafia in Goa. Fearing a threat to her life, she had sought police protection, which she has been granted since Monday.
Meanwhile, the state police on Tuesday clarified that they will not charge Fiona under the Goa Children’s Act for neglecting her daughter as she had feared earlier.
Dismissing reports that she was using her daughter’s death to gain sympathy back home and earn quick bucks, besides big insurance money, Fiona said, “Rubbish. I am not a pauper or a criminal. I am just a mother fighting to ensure that her daughter gets justice.”

Fiona speaks at her lawyer’s house in Porvorim on Tuesday. She has been given police protection since Monday

2008 Mar 26 Times Of India Mumbai