Inhaling Deeply From a Hashish Pipe, Scarlett's Mother Just Days Before Goa Murderer Struck ; As Indian Police Fly to Devon to Re-Interview Fiona Mackeown, Her Former Lover Insists That She Could - and Should - Have Prevented Her Daughter's Rape and Death [Edition 2]

Mail on Sunday › March 01, 2009

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SHE sits in a bar sucking what appears to be a hashish pipe. This is the unseen side of Fiona MacKeown, mother of the murdered schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling.

The picture was taken near the hippy paradise of Om Beach, Gokarna, days before the rape and murder of the 15-year-old daughter she had left 100 miles away in the care of tour guide Julio Lobo, 25.

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Inhaling Deeply From a Hashish Pipe, Scarlett's Mother Just Days Before Goa Murderer Struck ; As Indian Police Fly to Devon to Re-Interview Fiona Mackeown, Her Former Lover Insists That She Could - and Should - Have Prevented Her Daughter's Rape and Death [Edition 2]

Yet it barely scratches the surface of a chaotic family holiday which, according to Mrs Mac- Keown's estranged partner Rob Clarke, resulted in bitter rows, under-age sex, violence, drinking binges, drugs parties and her hungry children reduced to eating just a daily bowl of rice each.

The acceptance of drug use within 44-year-old Mrs MacKeown's family seems clear in a second photograph - this time of Scarlett sitting on a beach, hashish joint in hand and a detached expression on her face. Beside her, a younger brother and sister sit apparently oblivious to their sibling's habit..

The photographs were taken by Mr Cl...

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