“Fiona is willing to come to the court. Her testimony would be crucial for the case,” Vikram Varma, Fiona’s lawyer, said. Varma said that he would discuss the appropriate dates with the public prosecutor and will inform his client back in UK to keep herself free for India visit.
The trial in the sensational scarlet death case has began this week with a local policeman constable Gurunath Naik becoming the first witness to depose before the court. Scarlet’s bruised semi-nude corpse was found on Anjuna shore on February 18, 2008 following which two locals - Samson D’Souza and Placido Carvalho, were booked by CBI for drugging, sexually abusing and leaving the teenager to die on the shore.
The prosecution had termed Fiona’s statement in the case as ‘very important.’ “The witness by Fiona is very crucial in this case. We will summon her for the trial. But if she fails to turn up, we can even have her evidence through video conferencing,” S R Rivonkar, CBI counsel, said.
He said that other two foreign witnesses, a Spanish girl Ruby Caso and a Britisher Mike Mannion, will also be asked to depose through video conferencing.
The prosecution in this trial will be producing 72 witnesses, who would be cross examined by the defence lawyers-Ryan Menezes and Peter D’Souza.
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