Mother seeks protection as autopsy shows teen was killed

THE mother of murdered British teen Scarlett Keeling said yesterday she would ask a court in the Indian beach resort state of Goa for protection, saying she feared the local drugs mafia.

A new autopsy report released on Saturday suggested the 15-year-old was drowned by attackers who pushed her face into water for five to 10 minutes — a contradiction of the police version of events.

Fiona MacKeown said the findings lent fresh weight to her allegations that links between police officials, politicians and the drugs mafia were continuing to hamper a proper investigation of her daughter’s February 18 murder.