Scarlett Keeling murder: teenager's mother urges Indian Prime Minister to re-investigate daughter's death

The mother of British schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling has written to the Indian Prime Minister urging him to re-investigate her daughter's death.

15-year-old Scarlett's body was found bruised and half-naked on the popular Anjuna Beach in Goa back in 2008. She had drowned after being allegedly being plied with drugs.

Two men - Placido Carvalho and Samson D'Souza - were acquitted of raping and killing Scarlett last night but her mother Fiona MacKeown now says she has concerns over how the case was handled.

She told Good Morning Britain:

A first post-mortem examination ruled that Scarlett died from accidental drowning, before a second, carried out under pressure from her mother, prompted a new investigation to be launched.

The youngster had been visiting the country on a family holiday at the time of her killing, but had attended a Valentine's Day beach party while the rest of her relatives had gone travelling.

Ms MacKeown alleged that the investigative process was initially hindered by a reluctance in the Indian criminal justice system to admit a tourist had been murdered.

She added:

The heartbroken mother also spoke of how she would "regret for the rest of my life" the decision to let her daughter go to the party alone.