'I Did Not Leave Her Alone. She Was with Julio'

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As she tearfully retraced her teenage daughter's last steps, Fiona MacKeown's eye was caught by an object lying on the edge of the dusty track. It was a leather sandal - nothing special - but its discovery started a chain of events that has sent shockwaves through a part of the world still regarded by some as a corner of paradise.

Fiona knew at once that the shoe belonged to her daughter, 15- year-old Scarlett Keeling, whose body had been found on a nearby beach three days earlier.

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'I Did Not Leave Her Alone. She Was with Julio'

"I was so shocked to see the shoe just sitting there that I did a sort of double-take," Fiona explained.

"It was just a Greek-type sandal, and I picked it up and I held it and looked at it, and there on the sole was the imprint of my daughter's foot. I knew it was hers immediately. She was my child. I recognised not just the shoe but the mark of her foot."

The discovery forced Fiona to accept that there was more to Scarlett's death than she had been led to believe by police.

Following the discovery of her daughter's body in Goa, on the west coast of India, officers insisted the gir...

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