Where Atithis Fear To Tread

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The Goa debate seems to be moving away from the basic fact that Scarlett Keeling has been murdered. There is no way you can wish away the body and the report of the medical examination, which says that the teenager was raped before being killed. There is neither any evidence to link this murder to the beach resort's drug trade. Keeling's possible involvement with narcotic substance offenders and their clandestine business has nothing to do with the savagery inflicted upon her. In the end, it was more a crime of lust. Let us not be led astray by the ongoing debate in Britain that Scarlett might have been the promiscuous daughter of a bohemian mother who lives life according to her own hippie norms. We have no right to sit on judgment on Fiona Mackowen especially when it makes us digress from the real issue in hand. The....