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SEREMBAN (Bernama): The coroner was told that two dogs from the Fire and Rescue Department managed to detect the scent of Irish-French teenager Nora Anne Quoirin, who disappeared on August 4, 2019, at various locations near The Dusun. Resource.
On August 5, the UK Labrador and Border Collie breeds detected the victim’s scent about 100 meters from the window of the villa he was staying in, the operations supervisor of the Tracker Dog Unit (K9) said. from the department, 1 Fadzil Arshad, 52 years old. from Jalan Klang Lama Station in Kuala Lumpur.
He is the sixteenth witness in the investigation to determine the death of Nora Anne.
He said the dogs later picked up the scent again near a fish pond, not far from the village, and the next day when the unit passed through an abandoned drain, the canines were hooked on a bottle of mineral that may have been Belonged to Nora Anne. .
“The two dogs then crossed a concrete drain and headed straight for the creek and reacted strongly in the rocky rapids. I reported this discovery to my superior officer Mohamad Idris,” he said while testifying before coroner Maimoonah Aid on the ninth day of the performances. on Monday (September 14).
Fadzil said efforts to track Nora Anne continued the next day, targeting the rocky rapids, and the two dogs gave a similar reaction, not wanting to go anywhere else.
He said that on August 8 he was asked to report to the police where the odor was discovered.
“After that, our services were no longer needed and our duty ended there,” he said.
Asked by DPP Norhafiza Haron, who acted as the investigation’s handling officer, about the role of the two dogs, Fadzil said: “They are trained to track people who are missing or have strayed in the jungle.”
Meanwhile, Witness 17, Chief Fire Officer P. Ravi, 50, also from the K9 Unit in Jalan Klang Lama, told the court that his team only participated in the search and rescue mission on August 10, following a request from the operations center.
“We brought an English Springer Spaniel or ESS, a dog trained to locate bodies. I reported to Operations Commander Ahmad Mukhlis Moktar and was briefed on the search area at 9 am on August 10,” he said.
“We started the search from an Indian temple in the direction of a water plant, the place where someone is said to have disappeared while swimming.
“From when we started until we stopped, there was no positive reaction from the dog. They asked us to look for any trace of a body in the area,” he said, adding that his team’s service was only required for one day. .
Earlier, the 15th witness, Lance Corporal Sylvester Kirinus, 31, who works with the Bukit Aman K9 Unit, said that a German shepherd dog used on August 4, the first day the missing dog was reported. Nora Anne, did not reveal any clues.
The second and third search attempts made with the dog on Aug.9 and 10 also came back negative, he said.
The investigation is scheduled to continue on October 2, with two witnesses from the department’s K9 Unit scheduled to testify.
Procedures were previously conducted from August 24 to 27 and continued from September 1 to 4 before resuming again today.
A total of 64 witnesses have been called to testify.
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 on August 13 near a stream about 2.5 km from the tourist center after a massive search by authorities.
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. – Bernama
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