Even in that conversation, it was clear that Bennett was afraid — he claimed that the two Indian men were conspiring against him but he could not understand since they were talking in their native language.

By then, a shaken Bennett family in UK began trying to contact the British embassy but it was too late. Bennett was found killed on December 10, eight days after he arrived in India.

In that last message, Bennett also told his parents to contact his brother Paul Bennett where he clearly enunciates the name of the hotel, “OK... Room 101 Palacio (P-A-L-A-C-I-O accent on the A) de Goa is where I’m staying. Ah..mum...could you please ring up Paul (his brother). Get him to somehow see if he can get hold of f...ing Chopsey (John Cronin, a friend he met in Goa) because I am being intimidated here. I’ve done absolutely nothing wrong but I’m being intimidated ... and I’m scared. So please do that. Can you do that?”

Cronin was a friend of Bennett who had travelled with him to India but somehow they lost touch. Bennett was desperate to contact him and believed that he could have saved his life.

Following the message, the family frantically tried to get authorities to act but to no avail. His brother, Paul Bennett, speaking to The Sunday Express from London, said: “It’s some coincidence for him to be calling to say his life is in danger one minute and then found dead in the jungle a few days later. The cops are not interested in the truth, they just want to close the case.”

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