One convicted while one acquitted by High Court in British teenager's murder case,in Goa

Prakash Kamat in Panaji
July17-The Bombay High Court in Goa on Wednesday convicted Samson D’Souza and acquitted Placido Carvalho in connection with a case involving sexual assault and death of 15-year-old British teenager at Anjuna beach in 2008.
The High Court judgement on Wednesday partially overturned a 2016 trial court order.
Mr. Ejaz Khan, counsel for the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI), said: “Samson has been convicted, Carvalho is acquitted. The matter would be heard on Friday for quantum of punishment”.
The CBI had challenged the acquittal of the two beach-shack workers, Samson D’Souza and Placido Carvalho, who were accused of sexually assaulting 15-year-old British teen Scarlett Keeling leaving her to die on Anjuna beach in North coatal belt in 2008.
D’Souza and Carvalho had been charged under Indian Penal Code sections 304 (II) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 354 (assault or use of criminal force on a woman with an intent to outrage her modesty) and 328 (administrating stupefying drug with an intent to cause hurt).
Vikrama Varma, lawyer of Scarlett’s mother Fiona Mackeown, who was present during the hearing said that justice had been done, especially with the Court ordering the conviction of Samson, after finding him guilty on all listed counts.
“They took off her (Scarlett’s) clothes, they assaulted her sexually and they killed her. That conduct brings them under the purview of the Goa Children’s Act. And accused number one Samson D’Souza was found guilty on all counts,” Varma said.
He said that the Court acquitted Carvalho because of lack of evidence. 
The sexual assault and death of Scarlett, subsequent attempts by the local police to cover-up the suspicious death, Fiona Mackeown’s fight for justice had attracted attention to the case globally for a decade.(eom)