Murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling unwittingly left instructions for her own funeral in a school essay, her mum revealed yesterday.

Fiona MacKeown, 43, said: "She wrote that when she died she wanted a party for people to celebrate her life and not her death. She could not have known it would come so soon.

"I want to read it out at her funeral as I think it says it all."

Mrs MacKeown, from Bideford, Devon, is awaiting a third autopsy report on Scarlett.

Goan police say the 15-year-old was drugged, raped and drowned in February. Two men are under arrest.