India, Feb. 8 -- It's been a long wait for justice for Andrea Brannigan, the mother of Irish backpacker Danielle McLaughlin, who was raped and murdered in 2017 at Palolem beach in South Goa. The wait may soon end as a local Goa court is likely to deliver the final verdict in the case next week.

"I'm scared and nervous. The court decision isn't mine to make, I just hope she gets justice," Brannigan told HT, speaking over the phone from Ireland.

McLaughlin was found lying in a pool of blood without clothes with injuries to her head and face on an isolated stretch near the beach in March 2017.

The 28-year-old from Northwest Ireland's Donegal had come to Goa in 2017 with a friend to celebrate Holi in the coastal village, Canacona, known fo...