Truth About Scarlett's 'Good ; Her Mother Paints Their Life Back Home As a Hippy Idyll. But, As a Man Is Charged with Scarlett Keeling's Murder in Goa, the Mail Reveals a Very Different Story ...
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AN EMPTY milk bottle, tie-dye sheets pinned over the window instead of curtains, discarded black bin liners and a sleeping bag on the floor, and the contents spewing carelessly from a chest of drawers. On top of them the remnants of a lost childhood a plastic duck and young girl's jewellery box.
As these pictures show, this is the squalor in which Scarlett Keeling was being raised. It is a million miles from the fantasy world of a wholesome family upbringing painted by her mother Fiona MacKeown in the past two weeks.See the full content of this document
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Truth About Scarlett's 'Good ; Her Mother Paints Their Life Back Home As a Hippy Idyll. But, As a Man Is Charged with Scarlett Keeling's Murder in Goa, the Mail Reveals a Very Different Story ...
She described their family's life on a small-holding in Devon, where they grew their own food and kept their own chickens, as a perfect example of
The Good Life. But the reality was clearly very different: a bunch of scruffy caravans, surrounded by empty beer bottles and rubbish. The only sign of life is a pack of dogs snarling at anyone approaching the perimeter fence.A world away from the hippy innocence Fiona has portrayed to date. But then, as a tattooed New Ager and mother of nine, Fiona MacKeown is no stranger to criticism. 'Not many people care what I say, so why should I care what anyone else has to say about me?' the 43-year-old often tells her friends....See the full content of this document