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SEREMBAN: Nora Anne Quoirin’s principal told the coroner here today that her student had physical and learning disabilities during her four-year education at Garratt Park School in London.
Michael Revees, 59, said that Nora Anne enrolled in the school in September 2015 and during the first evaluation, the school found that the French-Irish teenager had learning difficulties and that her health condition limited her cognitive response, their motor skills and their verbal communication. .
He said that due to these conditions, Nora Anne could not write well and construct proper sentences. He 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 couldn’t run for fear of falling,” he said.
Michael, who is the 37th witness in the investigation to determine Nora Anne’s cause of death, had this to say when he testified on the 17th of the procedure before Coroner Maimoonah Aid. Today’s proceeding was conducted online due to the Conditional Motion Control Order (CMCO).
Asked by the family’s lawyer, Louise Azmi, about the claim that Nora Anne could have walked out the window of the chalet where she and her family were staying during their vacation in Malaysia in August last year, Michael, who has worked in 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 might have been able to walk on difficult terrain with hard rocks, Michael said: “It would have been difficult for her even at a short distance … it would have been very difficult for her to do so.”
Responding to Coroner Maimoonah’s question about Nora Anne’s progress during her four years at the school, she said there was little progress.
Maimoonah: Do you know Nora Anne’s diet or grooming habits?
Miguel: Yes. Nora was able to eat her own food without any difficulty and was completely independent when going to 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. .
Nora Anne’s 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 proceeding was subsequently postponed until November 23.
