Dears,
After weeks of incessant confusion confounded about how actually Scarlett
died, we have a USA-based Goan doctor from Aldona, Dr.Gilbert Lawrence, giving
us the most palusible explanation [pasted below, courtesy Frederick/Goanet]
On Saturday [15 March, 2008], the Times of India editorial on the subject
simply read "Clean Up Goa" with the sub-title "All those who love it should
start an anti-drug crusade". The last paragraph of the edit states the obvious
"The growth and spread of the drug mafia, that might well include the members
of the police force, locals and some foreigners, is a cause for concern. It is
a serious problem and Scarlettt's might not be the last such case. Goa needs an
anti-drug crusade that grows out of community concern, supported by NGOs and
governmental agencies."
It goes on to remind us in Goa, "It was a People's Movement to save the
environment that aborted a government plan to set up industries in SEZs. the
people of Goa should come together to clean up their home." Those of us who
have come on the streets for GBA, SVM and/or GMAS rallies to scrap the Regional
Plan 2011 or to stop the Meditabs and Rahejas can sure stop the drug trade
....IF WE WANT. that is what the Editorial is encouraging US to do. It is no
longer in THEIR hands. It is up to US.
Joaquim Fernandes, former Navhind Times reporter from Calangute who is now
with the TOI, wrote on page 8 [TOI 15/3/08] "Drugs not a Goan way of living".
He lives in the village that was once the hot-spot of the drugdom in Goa, and
many boys of his age are still overcoming the hangover. In the meanwhile
"Britons blast UK media for belittling India" as the TOI headline tells us. We
have not belittled the Brits when seven of their youth beat Goan youth on a
day's "shore leave", Gregory Fernandes, to death outside his hotel ....
apparently even without provocation. The case will most likely be closed for
lack of evidence ...as Scarlett's would have been closed but for the public
outcry.
The GT Weekender centre-spread story [pages 8 and 9] entitled "Who cracked
the Scarlett mystery?" pieces to gether the sequence of investigation ....and
manipulation of the FIRST autopsy, with facsmile copy of the Police Inspector's
request dated 06 March, 2008. clearly indicating the earliest date when the
"supplementary" observations and results could have been written by the doctor
who suppressed information on the autopsy on 18 February, 2008.
The Herald Editor, Ashwin Tombat's "A tale of two autopsies" tells more about
the manipulations. On the same page of Herald MIRROR, Franky Gracias writes the
story entitled "The killing of Scarlett: Many questions, few answers." He asks
one pointed question, "Why did the hymenal tear, as mentioned in the second
autopsy, miss Dr. Sapeco's eye? Was the doctor's later statement, that it was a
rape, an afterthought?" The Police Sub-Inspector has been suspended "even as
IGP Kishan Kumar has gone on record to state that legally the PSI was right,
but that there were procedural lapses." If the PSI, who had kept his superiors
[the Dy.SP and SP North] informed from 18 February itself, is terminated from
service will his superiors not be held accountable for abetting the "fudging
up". Surely, there is a price to oversight ....and it is often paid in advance!
That is the crux of the TOI editorial quoted above.
The Navhind Times has made it its sacred duty to protect the fair name of Dr.
Silvan Sapeco. Respected columnist, Mario Cabral e Sa toes that line in his
otherwise balanced weekly column in the NT Panorama entitles "A Messy Coctail".
The penultimate paragraph says it all, "There are discrepancies, in fact minor,
between the first autopsy [Dr.Sapeco's] and the second [by Dr. Rodrigues]. One
can attribute the comment "But Dr.Sapeco ought to have been more careful about
registering his findings after he probed Scarlett's vagina when the cadaver was
fresh." Figuratively speaking, it seems he did to the autopsy of the cadaver
the same thing as Samson D'Souza allegedly did on the beach ....screwed it up
when he reached the vagina! To each his own intoxicant. The other NT report is
pasted below.
So the PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN or abhiyan [the term 'crusade' has rather sick
imagery to one who truly believes in Jesus Christ] would have to involve the
CLEAN UP of
1. The VALUE SYSTEM we inculcate in our children by our own lives, spending
money to ply them with goodies and access to nightclubs, etc in lieu of
spending TIME with them.
2. The UNETHICAL media standards, where circulation justifies the 'dope' in
the pages.
3. The MAFIA in the Police force.
4. The DRUG mafia in the citizenry or resident tourists.
5. The CARNIVAL/SHIGMO/FUN FETE and CASINO CULTURE of the local
administration, specially the Tourism, Information & Publicity and
Finance/Excise related departments as well as pseudo-cultural and
pseudo-religious institutions.
WE HAVE TO BE
A PART OF THE CHANGE
WE WANT TO SEE.
It has worked with the GBA and the SVM ... without high profile personalities
or politicians to lead the People's Movements. Even the KPA had few leaders who
were big time personalities then as they are now. Movements create leaders, not
vice versa! How many people knew Ritu Prasad or Oscar Rebello or Aaron Pereira
before the GBA? or Videsh Jalmi before the Keri Nagrik Samiti or Charles
Fernandes befor SVM? or Simon Pereira before the MBA?
So far, most of us are happy to be APART from the change we want to see. It
does not work that way. It is time to move the alphabets apart and bring the
people together to be A PART of the movement to clean up Goa. If we do that,
Scarlett's death.... and the media hype that followed .... would not have been
in vain. Otherwise, the parting words of Mario Cabra e Sa will suffice: THE
READER COULD DO WITH LESS TITILLATION.
Mog asundi.
Miguel
"Frederick [FN] Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A comment from Dr. Gilbert Lawrence, a medical professional (but not a
forensic expert, as he points out):
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gilbert Lawrence
Date: 15 Mar 2008 23:02 Subject: [Goanet] Cause of Scarlet's Death
The issue raised several times in many press articles is: Who killed
Scarlett (and few other hippies). The short answer, in response to
public pressure, is some native miscreants. Yet, I submit the Anjuna
/ Goan police have figured the answer to this question a long time ago: The
hippies kill themselves!!! Likely the local British consulate also may have
arrived to the same conclusion,and no longer pursue these fatalities.
So what killed Scarlet and how did she die?
Answer: Multiple organ failure.
Since I am no forensic expert, here is a down load from the web on Cocaine.
Please web search the effects of other drugs and alcohol. What Are Cocaine's
Effects?
Initial Lift:
The user is wide awake, feels himself fueled to think,
talk, act and work. He does all of these rather compulsively. He is
"speeding."
The Crash
A cocaine "lift" is short-lived, however. The peak lasts only 15 to
30 minutes, although lesser effects continue up to 2 to 4 hours. After
this comes what they call the "crash," which is marked by: raw nerves, physical
weakness, a feeling of gloom, all coming in a quick sudden,just as quickly as
the "lift" or "speed" had come. The user is easily irritated, gets
bad-tempered, sulks or gets restless, even becomes violent.
LSD-Type Toxicity
Signs of cocaine toxicity are: rapid heart beat, dilated pupils, stomach
cramps, nausea, convulsions,vomiting. Terrifying hallucinations and delusions
usually attend cocaine overdose; death can occur.
Unwitting Over-Exertion
Grandiose feelings of super physical and mental prowess, as
previously stated, are among cocaine's initial effects on a user.
While such "lift" feelings yield great physical and mental work, they
unhappily have led users to over-estimate their actual capabilities
and collapse in physical exhaustion or break down mentally.
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Kind Regards, GL
Clues bear testimony to Scarlette murder NT Staff Reporter
Panaji, March 15
The dead don't speak, so the people say, but at times they leave behind
enough clues that could help resolve the mysteries behind their death. This has
perhaps proved to be true in the case of murder of British teenaged girl,
Scarlette Eden Keeling, who appear to have died fighting for survival.
The GMC sources also said that the injury on the elbow of Carvalho is around
a month old and perhaps could have been caused at the same time the death of
Scarlette was reported. The sources ruled out that injuries were inflicted in
the police custody as they appeared to be old.
They said that Carvalho, because of complications that were psychological in
nature, was admitted to Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour for
treatment.However, late yesterday he is reported to have developed high fever
and was shifted to the medicine ward and is undergoing treatment there.
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