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Mother sold TV rights to aftermath of Scarlett killing

Wikileaks.org published an anonymous post based on hacked emails,
detailing negotiations on behalf of Fiona Mackeown by her lawyer with
Channel 4. IANS

Posted Saturday, Aug 01 19:40:59, 2009

Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British teenager Scarlett Keeling, was
paid nearly 15,000 pounds by Channel 4 for selling exclusive
television rights to report on her daughter's killing in Goa and its
sorry aftermath, according to e-mails hacked from her lawyer Vikram
Varma's account and anonymously posted on the Internet.

Scarlett's death, the subsequent attempts by the police here to hush
up the case and Fiona's "struggle for justice" have now been published
on wikileaks.org, a website from the wikipedia.org family which
publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents.

The anonymous post "In Goa we trust: the murder-cover up of British
school girl Scarlett Keeling, files, 2008" was uploaded on July 5. It
contains over 1,000 pages of e-mails hacked from Varma's mail box
including the lawyer's initial proposal to one Adam from Channel 4 and
a final copy of the draft between the news channel and Fiona.

"Your channel would contribute a sum of 17,500 pounds towards her
personal account in the name of Fiona Mackeown by cheque. Besides the
above, your channel would bear all travel expenses for my client her
family and Dakini Runningbear from the day your channel begins filming
and till the last day of filming," the first draft of Varma's letter
states. The sum later agreed upon was 15,000 pounds, says the website.

In return for the money, Varma has said that her client "would allow
the channel to film the collection of Scarlett's body from Goa,
transporting the body from India to Britain, the burial, the flying
back with Fiona Mackeown, her family and Runningbear from London to
Goa for the follow-up action in her struggle for justice, accompanying
my client for visits to the courts and the police stations in this
struggle for justice, among other occasions".

The anonymous post also contains photos of Scarlett Keeling's autopsy,
a host of statements recorded by the police, case details, and photos
of the suspect in the Keeling murder Samson D'Souza.

Varma confirmed to IANS Saturday that his e-mail account had been
hacked by "those who want to weaken the prosecution case" in
Scarlett's murder.

"It's a fruitless shot. It's an effort to jeoparadise the case. This
has been done by those who want to prove that Fiona is a careless
mother," Varma said, claiming some of the uploaded content had been
"tampered with".

"This is not related to national security or some serious security
matter. There is nothing in my mail which is objectionable. These are
just private conversations with my friends. I am surprised why
wikileaks is interested in this content," Varma said.

Scarlett was found dead at Anjuna beach in February last year. After
efforts by the police and the health authorities to pass it off as an
accident, the murder was exposed by Fiona with the help of the media.
The state government was forced to rope in the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) to probe the case. Two people have been arrested.
They are currently out on bail.

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