2 charged with British teen murder in India

Police in the Indian coastal state of Goa confirmed yesterday they have charged two men with the murder of a British teenager.
Police Inspector General Kishan Kumar told a news conference that Scarlett Keeling, 15, was fed with a deadly cocktail of drugs, raped by one of the men and then left for dead on the Anjuna beach tourist spot.
The two suspects were named as local barman Samson D'Souza, 29, and Placido Carvalho, an alleged drugs dealer working the beaches of the former Portuguese colony.
The police official alleged D'Souza was seen by a witness "raping the girl" before "he took the girl towards the beach... then he assaulted the girl there also."
Keeling then fainted and died of a combination of exhaustion, assault and the drugs fed to her by the two men, he said.
"Samson had evil designs on the girl from the very moment he saw her," Kumar said.
Although Carvalho was not present when she died, he was also charged with murder because of "common intention," Kumar said.