Monday Apr 14 16:24 AEST
A fresh row has erupted over the death of a British teenager in India's Goa state after her organs were found to be missing following a new autopsy in Britain.
The autopsy, the third since 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling was raped and murdered in the Indian resort state of Goa in February, revealed that her stomach, uterus and both kidneys had been removed, a lawyer representing the teenager's mother said.
Indian investigators ? who have been accused by the girl's mother of covering up murder ? had conducted two autopsies on Keeling after she was found dead on Goa's popular Anjuna beach.
Keeling's mother Fiona MacKeown had insisted on a third autopsy in Britain and was "shocked and disturbed" about the new findings, her lawyer Vikram Varma said.
A doctor who conducted the first autopsy ? on the basis of which police initially dismissed the death as a drowning ? has been suspended.
Last week, Goa's government sacked a police official for lapses in the probe.
A second examination was conducted on MacKeown's demand and the police launched a murder investigation.
But forensic experts in Goa dismissed suspicions of foul play over the missing organs, saying that Keeling's body parts were needed for the medical examinations.
"We sealed everything and gave it to the police," said a forensic expert who was part of the team that conducted the second autopsy.
MacKeown's lawyer, however, said he would take up the matter with Goa's authorities.
Last month, police arrested a bartender and an alleged drug dealer for conspiracy to murder. They said the two gave the girl a cocktail of illegal drugs before one of them repeatedly raped her and left her for dead.
Police have said Keeling was dumped unconscious in shallow water where she drowned, but a forensics report last month suggested she was forcibly held under water.
The report said she had not ingested enough drugs and alcohol to have become unconscious.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=446704Thats really sick....this seems like the dark underbelly to Goa's party scene. I remember going there last year and having a great time. To think that the difference between having a great time and dying is this close.....
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