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Fiona had wanted to settle down in Goa
The mother of the Brit teen has, however, abandoned her plan after the death of her daughter Scarlett Keeling.
Fiona MacKeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Keeling who was murdered in Goa, was on a recce mission to the Indian state as she wanted to settle down in the tourists' paradise and set up a pony-trekking business, but abandoned her plan after the tragedy.
"We did want to move here (Goa) full time and set up a pony-trekking business," MacKeown told
'The Observer
in an interview.
The report said plans to live in India have now been abandoned. "I don't feel safe here. I am sure there are many people in Goa who want to see me dead. I love India, so do the children. Scarlett, especially, was having the time of her life here. Personally, I am not bitter towards India for what has happened to me," she was quoted as saying.
Refuting the charge that she was negligent towards the safety of her 15-year-old daughter, Mackeown said "Scarlett was very independent."
"She was a young woman. She was just like I was at her age. But my mother was very strict and that drove us apart for good. I wanted to have a more understanding relationship with Scarlett, and allowed her some freedom."
"I just don't know why they (those charging her with being negligent) are attacking me when I'm in such a bad situation. I am starting to think the press would be happy if it emerged that I killed my own daughter."
MacKeown, a former trader at London's Camden Market, is condemned for being a 'new age' mother of nine children with five different fathers, the report said.
She admitted that she lived on benefits. "It is not a conscious choice and it doesn't feel very good. But I am trying to build up my market business again."
