ARES - Daijiworld Media Network Goa
Panaji, April 11: A Police sub inspector who initially goofed up Scarlett death case was dismissed from services by Goa government on Friday April 11.
Nerlon Albuquerque, whose behaviour was under scanner for British teenager death case, was dismissed from Goa police services.
Albuquerque who headed Anjuna police station on the day when British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling's body was found on the shore on February 18, had ruled out foul play initially terming it as a death due to drowning.
Only after Scarlett's mother, Fiona Mackeown, raised hue and cry over the case and lobbied for the second autopsy, the police reinvestigated the case.
The second autopsy recommended that the death be investigated as murder. The findings of the second autopsy saw change in guard in investigation and Nerlon Albuquerque was replaced by police inspector Braz Menezes. Subsequently, Albuquerque was placed under suspension.
Goa chief minister Digamber Kamat this evening said that Albuquerque had left major lapses in the investigation. The police establishment board decided to dismiss him, he said.
He said that the decision was taken after holding the preliminary inquiry in the case which proved laxity on the part of Albuquerque.
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