Man convicted of 15-year-old’s 2008 rape and murder
Samson D’Souza was found guilty of “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” by Bombay’s High Court on Wednesday.
A second man, who was accused of leaving the schoolgirl to die after drugging and sexually abusing her, Placido Carvalho, was acquitted.
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett’s bruised and half-naked body was found on the popular Anjuna beach in the north of Goa on 18 February, 11 years ago.
Goa police initially sought to close the case as an accidental drowning, but the case was handed over to the CBI after Scarlett’s mother.