In a new online crowdfunding appeal, Fiona Mackeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Keeling who was sexually assaulted and left to die on a Goa beach in 2008, said that she needs 20,000 pounds to source information and video footage which allegedly links a Goa minister's son to her daughter's murder.
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"I am certain there is more evidence out there to convict the right men of the right crimes in Scarlett's case. An Indian man tried to make contact with me to tell me he saw Scarlett with some men on the night she died, she was trying to get away and he went to help but they threatened him and he left," Ms Mackeown said on crowdfunding site www.justgiving.com while making a pitch for the money. "I was also told by a respectable person that there was a video containing evidence connected to Scarlett's murder and the minister's son," she said. Last year, a trial court in Goa acquitted two beach shack workers of culpable homicide and sexual assault charges due to lack of evidence, following a two-year long investigation and a six-year trial.
Councilor of Pernem Municipal Council (PMC), Prashant Gadekar has put forth the demand to revert the Pernem Municipal Council's status back to panchayat.
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Published Jul 29, 2017, 4:41 AM IST
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PERNEMNarayan alias Zila Mayekar, the first sarpanch of Pernem panchayat, had also demanded converting the municipal council into panchayat some years back. There are 20 panchayats and one municipal council in Pernem taluka. "I will take initiative with the help of present and former councilors for converting PMC back to the panchayat," said Gadekar. "The PMC has been in power for the last one-and-half year, but even minor works are pending. There are no streetlights and…
