Panaji: Michael Mannion, a key witness in the Scarlett Keeling murder case has told police how he fled for his life after seeing Samson D'Souza assault the teenager.
Mannion, a 35-year-old carpenter from London, was on holiday in Anjuna, where Scarlett was allegedly raped and murdered.
Mr Mannion said Scarlett came into a bar in Anjuna at 3 am "in a very intoxicated state".
"She then proceeded to go to the backside of the shack, towards the kitchen area, where three local men were sitting. She was in their company for about an hour."
"Before she left the bar she said she had taken drugs but she did not say where they had come from."
She left the bar with a man, and when Mr Mannion went outside five minutes later , he saw that man ride off on a scooter. "In the light of the front beam of his scooter I saw Samson D'Souza on top of Scarlett," he said.
"I was in a complete state of total panic, shock, I just got on my bike and rode off."
D'Souza, 28, is in police custody suspected of rape while alleged drug dealer Placido Carvalho, in his thirties, is also in police custody for drugging Scarlett and assisting in her murder.
Mannion's descriptions of what he saw that night appeared to cement the case against D'Souza, who was arrested based on the information provided by another unidentified witness.
Meanwhile, Scarlett's mother Fiona MacKeown, 43, has been interviewed by Goan Police under the Goa Childrens Act.
Mrs MacKeown, who has questioned the police handling of the inquiry, had left her daughter with her Goan boyfriend to go travelling in the area.
The 43-year-old mother of nine has come in for criticism for leaving her daughter with strangers in Goa while she holidayed with her other children in neighbouring Karnataka state.
Since the discovery of the body of her daughter, Fiona MacKeown has accused state officials, police and drug lords of being involved in a cover-up over her death.
Mean while, authorities in Goa say they will ask the Indian government not to extend Mrs MacKeown's visa.
"Her entry into India should be banned," Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik said.
Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat will brief Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Scarlett death case on Tuesday afternoon.
