The Bombay high court at Goa on Wednesday convicted a beach shack worker of culpable homicide for drugging and sexually assaulting British teenager Scarlett Keeling, whom he left to die on the Anjuna beach in February 2008. Goa Police initially sought to close the case as an instance of accidental drowning, but the case was later handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). D’Souza and Carvalho were last seen with Keeling at 5am at the Luis Beach Shack on Anjuna on the night of February 17, 2008. Advocate Cleofato Almeida Coutinho said that despite the Bombay high court overturning the acquittal granted by the lower court, the state has emerged worse from the entire episode. “It has taken 11 long years — eight years in the trial court and two-and-a-half years in the high court.

Source: Hindustan Times July 17, 2019 12:15 UTC