Panaji, Aug 1 - Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British teenager Scarlett Keeling, was paid nearly 15,000 pounds by Channel 4 for selling exclusive television rights to report on her daughter's killing in Goa and its sorry aftermath, according to e-mails hacked from her lawyer Vikram Varma's account and anonymously posted on the Internet.

Scarlett's death, the subsequent attempts by the police here to hush up the case and Fiona's 'struggle for justice' have now been published on wikileaks.org, a website from the wikipedia.org family which publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents.

The anonymous post 'In Goa we trust: the murder-cover up of British school girl Scarlett Keeling, files, 2008' was uploaded on July 5. It contains over 1,000 pages of e-mails hacked from Varma's mail box including the lawyer's initial proposal to one Adam from Channel 4 and a final copy of the draft between the news channel and Fiona.

'Your channel would contribute a sum of 17,500 pounds towards her personal account in the name of Fiona Mackeown by cheque. Besides the above, your channel would bear all travel expenses for my client her family and Dakini Runningbear from the day your channel begins filming and till the last day of filming,' the first draft of Varma's letter states. The sum later agreed upon was 15,000 pounds, says the website.

In return for the money, Varma has said that her client 'would allow the channel to film the collection of Scarlett's body from Goa, transporting the body from India to Britain, the burial, the flying back with Fiona Mackeown, her family and Runningbear from London to Goa for the follow-up action in her struggle for justice, accompanying my client for visits to the courts and the police stations in this struggle for justice, among other occasions'.