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| April 17, 2010 | Goa rape-murder victim Scarlett Keeling’s stepfather found dead in UK | | London: Murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling’s stepfather has been found dead at his flat in Torquay, Devon, a year after admitting he would 'drink himself to death'. Adam Foster,
father of two of Scarlett’s younger siblings, was pronounced dead by paramedics
on Monday after they went to his Victoria Road home. Investigating officer Judith
Dunn said that a cause of death has not been established, although a postmortem
examination has taken place. Foster, who helped raise Scarlett from the age of
seven, had turned to booze after the 15-year-old was raped and killed in Goa in
February 2008, The Sun reports. Anjuna Beach shack workers Samson D’Souza and
Placido Carvalho, who were arrested over charges of culpable homicide, sexual
assault and destroying evidence, are on bail at present. Scarlett had been on
a six-month holiday in India with her mother, Fiona Mackeown, and other family
members. The initial police investigation concluded she drowned accidentally,
but a second postmortem revealed the teenager had been attacked and raped. A report
from the government’s chief pathologist conclud ed that she had been held underwater for five to 10 minutes. | |
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