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Deccan Herald » National » Detailed Story
Scarlett case: Forensic report says murder
Panaji, PTI:
Forensic experts in their final report on Saturday said there was the possibility of the British teenager being murdered rather than being left to die in shallow water after being drugged and raped.


Blowing to bits the police version on Scarlett Keeling’s death, Forensic experts in their final report on Saturday said there was the possibility of the British teenager being murdered rather than being left to die in shallow water after being drugged and raped.

In a new twist to the sensational case, the experts after thoroughly studying the report of the viscera of the 15-year-old girl mentioned that she struggled before her death and that levels of ethyl alcohol was not that much to cause coma and death. The final report was submitted on Saturday.

The Goa police, which faced charges of cover up from Scarlett’s mother Fiona, had claimed that the girl was drugged, raped and left to die in water.

Police had said bartender Samson D’Souza and Placido Carvalho, an alleged drug dealer, had drugged her while the former raped her twice. When she became unconscious left her to die in the shallow water. The two have already  been arrested.

The report mentions the possibility of the victim’s head being submerged in water for five to ten minutes. “Levels of ethyl alcohol detected in the instant case are not enough to cause coma and death.”

The report also mentions that the bruises and abrasions on the body are suggestive of signs and struggles.

Police till now had stated that the abrasions and bruises are due to the sexual assault on her, which is contradicted in the report submitted on Saturday.

Reacting to the report, Fiona renewed her demand for a CBI inquiry saying there were “gaps” in the investigation report. Dr Silvano Sapeco, who conducted the first autopsy on Scarlett’s body, submitted the final report on Saturday.

The final document also includes chemical analyser’s report from directorate of the forensic science laboratories at Kalina, St Cruz.

Scarlett Keeling was found dead on Anjuna beach on February 18. The first autopsy said five bruises were noticed on her body while the second autopsy mentioned 50 bruises of which 22 ante mortem, which had raised the suspicion on the circumstances that led to her death.

Dr Sapeco, who was criticised for his first autopsy report, in his final report, said that he had verbally expressed homicidal possibility to a police officer who had come to collect the report.

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