The mother of a British teenager found raped and murdered on a beach in Goa is to make a fresh bid to retrieve her daughter's organs - in the face of what her lawyer described as "needless hurdles".
Fiona MacKeown - who flies home on Sunday - will make another attempt to get back the organs taken in a post-mortem examination from her 15-year-old daughter Scarlett Keeling, found dead on Anjuna Beach in Goa in February.
Her lawyer, Vikram Varma, said that the Goa Medical College and Hospital - where the teenager's uterus, kidneys and stomach are being held - told her police permission was required for their release.
Mrs MacKeown has said if she is forced to return to the UK without her daughter's organs she would ask the Goan authorities to have them flown back.
But Mr Varma said that process would be complicated, and he did not think they would comply.
Realistically, Mrs MacKeown would have to make another trip to Goa if her bid fails, he said.
He said the authorities should be co-operating, and "needless hurdles" were being raised against Mrs MacKeown's request.
"She wants those organs, they were taken without her consent. They do not have a right to those organs," he said.
Mrs MacKeown had flown back to India from the UK expecting to be handed back the organs by the Goa Medical College and Hospital. She said she had been told on Tuesday that she could have the organs, which she wants to be buried with Scarlett's body in UK.
Mrs MacKeown has claimed that links between police officials, politicians and the drugs mafia have hampered a proper investigation into her daughter's death.
