Scarlett's mother meets minister

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The mother of a British teenager who was raped and murdered on a beach in Goa is to ask the government to help her recover her daughter's organs.

Scarlett Keeling's uterus, stomach and kidneys are still being held by Goan authorities following the discovery of her semi-naked body in February.

Fiona MacKeown, 43, from Bradworthy, Devon, is to meet senior Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch Brown in London.

"The organs are part of her body and I want them back," Ms McKeown said.

The discovery of Scarlett's missing organs was made after her body was flown back home and a third post-mortem examination was carried out by the Devon coroner.

Scarlett was not the first and will not be the last Fiona MacKeown

Scarlett's mother has said she did not give permission for her daughter's organs to be removed.

She returned to Goa in April to try to recover the organs, but was refused permission.

When Scarlett's body was found on Anjuna beach on 19 February, Goa police said her death was an accidental drowning.

But following pressure from Ms MacKeown, a second post-mortem examination revealed the teenager had been raped and killed.

Tests also revealed that Scarlett had taken ecstasy, cocaine and LSD on the night she died.

Ms MacKeown has repeatedly claimed links between local police officials, politicians and the drugs mafia hampered a proper investigation, which is now being handled by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation.

Ms MacKeown told BBC News she would ask Lord Malloch Brown if the British High Commission's offer of assistance with policing and forensics had been made to the Goan authorities as she had been told.

She said, however, she was not particularly optimistic about the outcome of her meeting with the minister on Monday afternoon.

Scarlett's body is currently being retained by the Devon coroner

"There's only so much they seem to be prepared or able to do," she said.

Ms MacKeown also wants to press the government to do more to ensure people from the UK are made more aware of the risks they could face in Goa.

"Scarlett was not the first and will not be the last," she said.

"All the Indians consider it dangerous after dark there. It needs to be safer to visit."

"I don't want to dissuade people from going there, because it's a really beautiful place and it's well worth going."

Ms MacKeown will return to Goa in a few weeks to talk to the authorities about the progress of the investigation.

Two arrests

Scarlett was on holiday with her family, who were travelling elsewhere in the region when she was killed.

Ms MacKeown believes Scarlett was raped by more than one man on the night she died.

Two men have been arrested over Scarlett's death.

Samson D'Souza, 28, has been charged with rape and is in police custody.

Placido Carvalho, who was questioned on suspicion of involvement in Scarlett's rape and murder, was granted bail by a court in Goa in April.