Suspect seen with drugged Scarlett

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Michael Mannion told how, in a bar a short time before, Scarlett had told him she had taken drugs.

Scarlett, on holiday in Anjuna beach from her home near Bideford, North Devon, was found on February 19 semi-naked, raped and murdered on the beach. The police in Goa have said she was given a cocktail of Ecstasy, cocaine and LSD.

Mr Mannion, 35, from London, told the BBC in Goa that the man he saw on top of Scarlett was Samson D'Souza.

D'Souza, 28, was the first man arrested by Goan police in connection with the death. He is in police custody suspected of rape. A second man, Placido Carvalho, aged between 30 and 35 years old, is also in police custody having appeared before a court on suspicion of drugging Scarlett and assisting in the murder by that act.

Mr Mannion told the BBC that Scarlett came into the bar in Anjuna at 3am "in a very intoxicated state" and went to talk to three local men.

Then she talked to Mr Mannion, who gathered she was English and age 16 years.

"It was very difficult to understand her as she seemed to be very intoxicated," he said. "Before she left the bar she said she had taken drugs but she did not say where they had come from," said Mr Mannion.

She left the bar with a man, and when Mr Mannion went outside five minutes later 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.

The Goan police originally said Scarlett had drowned, and only investigated the case as rape and murder after a second post mortem - conducted following pressure from Mrs McKeown - revealed she had been attacked.