A man convicted of the rape and murder of an Irish in India was sentenced to life in prison

A Court in the Indian State of Western Goa on Monday sentenced a 31-year-old man to a life prison for rape and murder of Irish woman At the popular tourist resort almost eight years ago.

The body of 28-year-old Danielle McLaughlin found a farmer on the beach popular with tourists in GOI in March 2017. autopsy showed This cerebral damage and neck narrow caused her death, the BBC reported.

Vika Bhagat was found guilty of a crime on Friday. The McLaughlin family said in a statement that they and her friends were “grateful to the Public Prosecutor and the Investigation Officer for Justice.”

Usually, victims of rape cannot be appointed under Indian law. In this case, the victim’s family spoke with the media to raise awareness of her case.

The crime emphasized the persistent Violence against women In India, despite difficult laws against the sexual attack imposed after the death of a young woman in 2012, which was raped on a bus in New Delhi.

In a statement after Bhagat was found guilty, Danielle’s mother Andrea Brannigan and her sister Joleen McLaughlin Brannigan said that justice was “finally reached” BBC reported.

“There were no other suspects or gangs involved in Danielle’s death, and Bhagat was solely responsible for the cruel end of his beautiful life,” they said.

AND Published a separate statement On behalf of the family on the “Truth Truth for Danielle McLaughlin”, she said that “the truth has finally heard.”

“We lost almost 8 years of our lives struggling for Danielle and we are so grateful that we can now start to regret her immense loss. She was so much more than her daughter, sister and best friend. She lit up every room that she entered and touched the lives of all who they met her.

Goa is a popular backpack destination in India. Millions of tourists visit his numerous beach resorts every year.

But his reputation of the tropical paradise interfered with crimes with a large profile involving strangers. In 2008, British student Scarlett Keeling, 15 years, was drugged, raped and killed in Goi in a case that made global titles.

McLaughlin was a student at Liverpool John Moores University, who was staying in a beach with an Australian friend before his death, the BBC reported. The couple celebrated Holi, a Hindu festival in a nearby village. At night she left the village and Her body was found the next day.

Many cases Crimes against women In India, they do not report because of the stigma about sexual violence, as well as the lack of faith in the police. Activists say the new requirements for measuring the penalty have not been distracted by rapes, and the number of recorded cases has increased. In 2022. Police recorded 31,516 rape reports – 20% of jumps from 2021, according to National Office for Crime Records.