A sad and aweful way to go … being beaten to death by a mob and not even knowing why!
A British tourist in India was lynched by a mob who believed he was harassing a local woman for sex, Indian police said yesterday. Stephen Bennett, 40, was beaten to death by a gang of men led by the woman’s husband, a senior police officer said.
The alleged killers then hanged him from a mango tree with a torn piece of sari fabric in an attempt to make the killing look like a suicide, according to Madhukar Talpade, additional superintendent of police for the district.
Police said Mr Bennett had been travelling from Goa to Mumbai by train when he got off at the town of Roha. He then travelled about 4½ miles to a village called Malsai, where he approached a local woman who had left her house to go to the toilet in the early hours.
Mr Talpade said: "She came inside and locked the door. [Mr Bennett] came and knocked at the door. She then told her husband someone is outside and now is knocking on the door.
“He saw somebody there and thought that this fellow was asking for sexual favours. So he got friends and with sticks and wooden blocks beat him.”
Police said Mr Bennett was attacked by at least six men. After he was dead, his body was dragged into nearby jungle and hanged from a tree.
Mr Bennett’s family have suggested he may have been lost and asking for directions, but police said that as the villagers did not speak English they had no idea what he was saying. Mr Talpade said: “We do not know why [he] was in the village.”
Mr Bennett, a father of two, had been on a week-long pre-Christmas break in India, arriving in the country on a tourist visa on December 3. Police found his passport, £300 and a railway ticket from Goa to Mumbai in his pockets.
Mr Bennett’s family say he was an experienced traveller who would have done nothing to provoke an attack.
His father said: “He was a friendly character, very affable and had been to Thailand and got on well with local people in the hills. He had probably been asking someone the way. He wouldn’t have been doing anything wrong. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
His family say he kept in regular phone contact until December 7. “Following that we did not hear from him until the police contacted us on December 12 and told us of his death,” his father said.
His father said he did not know why his son had got off the train in Roha, an industrial town. One possibility is that he planned to visit the white beaches at Murud Janjira, 20 miles from Roha. "It was just a normal holiday to Goa as far as I know, we didn’t know many of the details.
“I would say he was an experienced traveller. But he was probably too trusting of people and had gone into an area which was unsafe.”
According to Indian police, Mr Bennett was killed after arriving in Malsai on December 10. His body was found two days later and four men were arrested on suspicion of murder on December 14. Police are still looking for two other suspected attackers.
His family say he had travelled extensively in Asia, including visiting China while studying for a master’s degree in Chinese theatre studies at Leeds University. He had worked as an actor, but was also a self-employed builder. He lived in Cheltenham and had two daughters, aged eight and 11, from a previous relationship.
Floral tributes were left outside Mr Bennett’s house yesterday. Neighbour Grace Tallon, 90, said he was a helpful neighbour who doted on his children. She said: “He was a lovely man, an excellent neighbour. I will miss him very much.”
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