Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:54:56 +0530 From: Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falc?o > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/ > A divorcee who had a holiday romance in Goa with a man 25 years her junior has been left "penniless and terrified" after being conned out of more than ?80,000. > Patrina Churm, 55, flew to the Indian beach resort after the break up of her marriage and the death of her father and fell for a toyboy lover who she first met on a beach holiday 16 years ago selling handicrafts. > She sold up her life in England and set up a home with him in Kashmir, but she says he emptied her bank account, leaving her just ?2.17, and then abandoned her for a local girl. > Mario wonders: > Ferdinando, > Kitem mhontai, re? > Can you please explain how this sorry tale has anything to do with the thousands of law abiding migrants who are sustaining Goa's economy today while making an honest living for their families? > Did it escape your attention that the reprobates who raped and killed the equally naive Scarlett Keeling were all Goans? >