Andrew Buncombe, The Independent’s Asia correspondent, on his blog Asian (con)Fusion:
Last week, at a cafe in Anjuna Beach that specialises in organic food, the mother of Scarlett Keeling showed me some photographs that I didn’t really want to see.
The photographs were taken during the first post-mortem tests carried out on Scarlett and unlike the written report itself, the photographs revealed the true extent of the teenager’s injuries. The pictures showed a huge bruise above one eye, a series of bruises on her legs and shins, red marks around the genital area and, most shocking of all, a picture of Scarlett’s face.
Because police claimed they did know who she was when her body was found, the pathologists had cut open her face to enable access to her teeth and to take a dental imprint to obtain her identity. They had then crudely sewn it back up. What was left looked like an horrendous, clown-like smile stitched across the teenager’s face.
March 14, 2008 at 3:20 |
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March 24, 2008 at 3:20 |
this case has oveall been so disturbing n m sure with such pictures haunting her mother all the time…it would be really difficult for her mother to be normal ever again..however, i would also lke to use this space as a platform to convay my concerns regading the presenation of scarett story in many newspapers across the world..first, i don understand who has given the journa;lists a right to decide whether Fieona was right leaving her daughter or not…it looks like all the journalists have started telling this woman to go for a guilt trip n shut up..i dnt understand why is it becoming so difficult for everybody to come to terms with the fact that JUSTICE MUST BE PROVIDED TO SCARLETT, irrelevant of where she lived back home or what she did..we as journalists can atleast help Fieona raise her vioce while she struggles with so many odds..after the Goa medical college report that has com out recently, it has become very clear that the local administartion is not being fair here…