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SEREMBAN (Bernama): Nora Anne Quoirin’s principal has told the coroner here that her student had physical and learning disabilities during her four-year education at Garratt Park School in London.
Michael Revees, 59, said Nora Anne enrolled in the school in September 2015 and during the first assessment, the school found that the French-Irish teenager had learning difficulties, her health condition limited her cognitive response and her motor skills, and her verbal communication was also limited.
He said that due to these conditions, Nora Anne could not write well or construct proper sentences, and could only follow simple instructions and not converse with strangers.
“He lacked confidence in other people and sometimes he had problems (with that) … sometimes he was always cheerful and had a strong sense of right and wrong.
“It was difficult for him to participate in any program and he was unable to run for fear of falling,” he told Coroner’s Court on Wednesday (November 18).
Revees, who is witness number 37 in the investigation process to determine the cause of death of Nora Anne, was testifying on the 17th of the process before the coroner Maimoonah Aid.
The process was carried out online due to the conditional motion control order.
When asked by the family’s lawyer Louise Azmi if she had any idea what happened to Nora Anne, who is said to have slipped out of the window of the chalet where she and her family were staying during their vacation in Malaysia in August. last year, Revees who has worked at the school since 2006 said it was unimaginable.
“No. I just don’t think she could have done that. I can’t imagine her having the skill, the poise, or the strength to come out,” he added.
When asked if the teenager could have been able to walk on difficult terrain with hard rocks, Revees said: “It would have been difficult for her even at a short distance … it would have been very difficult for her to do so.
In response to Coroner Maimoonah’s question about Nora Anne’s progress during her four years at the school, she said only small progress was recorded.
Maimoonah: Do you know Nora Anne’s diet or grooming habits?
Miguel: Yes. Nora could eat her own meals without any difficulty and was completely independent when using the bathroom during her school days.
Nora Anne, 15, disappeared on August 4 last year, a day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia for a two-week vacation at a resort in Pantai, about 60 kilometers south of Kuala Lumpur. .
His body was found nine days later, on August 13, near a stream in a mountainous area, about 2.5 km from the complex, after a massive search operation.
A preliminary post-mortem report revealed that there were no criminal elements in Nora Anne’s death and that the teenager had died of gastrointestinal bleeding, due to prolonged stress and starvation.
The judicial process was postponed until November 23.- Bernama
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