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| Two men cleared over Scarlett Keeling Goa death | |
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| Two men have been cleared of all charges over the death of 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling on a Goan beach in 2008. | |
| Placido Carvalho, 48, and Samson D'Souza, 37, faced charges of culpable homicide and grievous sexual assault at Goa Children's Court. | Placido Carvalho, 48, and Samson D'Souza, 37, faced charges of culpable homicide and grievous sexual assault at Goa Children's Court. |
| The teenager, from Bideford in Devon, was on a six-month "trip of a lifetime" to India with her family when she died. | |
| Her mother Fiona MacKeown said she was "devastated" about the verdict. | |
| "I am reeling," she told reporters outside the court. "It's been eight years of agony. I feel devastated and will definitely be challenging the verdict." | |
| "We had been waiting all this time and it's just rubbish. India's whole judicial system has totally let me down." | |
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| Scarlett's bruised and partially clothed body was found on Anjuna beach in February 2008. | |
| She had been at a Valentine's Day beach party while the rest of her family had gone travelling. | |
| A post-mortem examination found a cocktail of drugs in her system and she suffered 50 separate injuries in the attack, the court has previously heard. |