‘My fiancé was killed in Goa but nobody will investigate’

Open verdict: Martin Neighbour, from Maida Vale, and Rosalind Sheherlis
12 April 2012

The fiancée of a London man found dead on a beach in Goa today criticised the British authorities for not pursuing what she believes should be a murder investigation.

A coroner recorded an "unsatisfactory" open verdict yesterday on Martin Neighbour, 39, whose half naked and bruised body was washed up at the Arambol tourist resort in India on 3 February 2008.

The inquest heard that five days earlier Mr Neighbour, from Maida Vale, had been involved in a fight with some locals after winning £800 in a game of cards.

His fiancée Rosalind Sheherlis, 51, said she left Mr Neighbour drinking in a bar the night before his body was found. The Goan authorities said he had drowned after drunkenly falling into the sea.

But Ms Sheherlis accused the local police of corruption and told the inquest at Westminster coroner's court that the British authorities "should have got involved". Mr Neighbour's sister Sara also believes he was murdered.

Westminster Coroner Dr Paul Knapman said "last ditch" efforts to obtain information from the Foreign Office had failed.

Two weeks after Mr Neighbour's death the body of Scarlett Keeling, 15, from Devon, was found on a beach in nearby Anjuna. Two men have been charged with culpable homicide and sex assault.

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