Scarlett yet to get decent burial

Scarlett yet to get decent burial
Preetu Nair, TNN

PANAJI: One year after the death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling, she is yet to be given a decent burial as her mother Fiona is yet to
receive her daughter's organs. On February 18, 2008, her semi-naked body was found on the Anjuna beach.

Fiona was planning to come to India in the first week of February to collect her daughter's organs and also give her statement to the CBI. "I don't have Scarlett's organs yet, although an undertaker is processing the paperwork and preparing to collect them on my behalf," she told TOI.

Explaining why she changed her plans, she said, "I won't be coming to Goa now as I cannot risk being detained by the Goa police as my other children need me too much, especially now. The present investigations are proof of how long investigations can take in Goa. If I am detained while investigations took place it could be a long time and could be harmful to my children's future."

"But in Scarlett's remembrance, we are going to plant one hundred trees (brightly coloured willows) in the morning with the children and Scarlett's friends and then we are all going to the beach for the day," the mother said.

Meanwhile, it is learnt that Scarlett was not just living a hedonistic life of drugs and rave parties in Goa in the weeks before her death, she also had no plans to return home to Devon for like years,' it has emerged.

In an email to her childhood friend in Devon on February 3, 2008, she wrote that she had met Julio, who worked in Finland. Julio had promised to take her to Finland with him and work there for six months and then come back to Goa, she said in the letter.

In another letter, she stated that she would be going to Belgium, Portugal, Peru and Thailand. "And it all sounds so good but then i wouldnt c (see) u guys 4 like years an that suks but i wld b makin mony man i dunno what to do man its tearin me apart," she had written. All these emails are in possession of her mother Fiona Mackeown and she has handed the same over to the CBI.


17 Feb 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition