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A Malaysian medical examiner ruled that the death of British teenager Nora Quoirin was likely a misfortune that did not involve other people.
The 15 year old from Balham, southwest London, disappeared from a hotel in August 2019.
Rescuers searched for 10 days before her body was found next to a stream just over a mile and a half (2.5 km) from where she was last seen at the Dusun eco-resort in southern Negeri Sembilan.
Meabh Quoirin with her daughter Nora who disappeared while on vacation in Malaysia. Photo: LBT Global / Family
Reading her verdict in a virtual hearing watched by Nora’s parents, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said: “After hearing all the relevant evidence, I rule out that no one was involved in Nora’s death and it is more likely that she was not killed by accident”. that is, he had left Sora House on his own and subsequently got lost in the abandoned palm oil plantations. “
He said it would be a breach of his duty to speculate on the involvement of third parties without any proof.
Police previously told the investigation that there was no evidence of criminal activity, suggesting that Nora had slipped out of a window and walked away, but her mother said she believed someone had taken her away.
Maebh Quoirin said her daughter was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, leaving Nora with learning disabilities and struggling with balance and coordination.
He said it was almost impossible for his daughter to open and exit through a cabin window.
A broken latch meant it wasn’t locked.
“I have several very precise reasons to believe that my daughter was abducted. How or why, I am not qualified to say,” she told the coroner.
The Quoirin landed in Kuala Lumpur on August 3 and traveled about an hour to the Dusun resort.
Nora was missing for nine days before her body was found near the place where the family was staying. Photo: LBT GLOBAL / family
At around 5pm that night, they took a walk in the gardens and told the court that they were all in bed around 10pm.
During the night, both Maebh and Nora’s father, Sebastien, said they heard “muffled whisper” inside the house but he was half asleep so he didn’t investigate further.
The next morning, when Sebastien went to wake the children, Nora had disappeared.
“He said words to the effect of ‘Nora is not here Maebh, can you see her?’ And immediately, immediately I was scared, “Ms. Quoirin said while giving testimony.
A large search effort followed, with officials and volunteers scouring the nearby jungle.
On August 12, the family offered a reward of £ 10,000 for information.
“Nora is our first child. She has been vulnerable from the day she was born, she is so precious to us and our hearts break,” Maebh Quoirin said in a statement announcing the reward.
A major rescue operation was carried out after the teenager disappeared
The next day, a local villager named Magendran told Sky News that he joined volunteers in the search.
He was with them when they found Nora’s body.
“We started the search from here and walked down the ravine to a small stream. We stopped to rest for a while and saw some small, old huts,” he said.
“From there, we divided into different teams to search the area and we followed the stream, and from there we found the body.”
A UK pathologist, who performed a second autopsy, said in the investigation that he agreed that Nora had died of intestinal bleeding due to stress and starvation.
Forensic pathologist Nathaniel Cary said he found no positive evidence that the teen had been sexually assaulted, but could not completely exclude the possibility due to severe body decomposition.
How it disappeared from the complex is still unknown.
Nora’s mother said that if her daughter, who had only been wearing underwear, had somehow accidentally stepped outside, she probably would have sat up and waited for help.
Nora was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development. Photo: LBT Global / Family
Helen Todd, owner of the Dusun Resort, told the court that her family had lived at the property for more than 30 years.
“It has always been a safe place,” he said. “We have never had a robbery and we have never had an intruder in any of our houses.”
She said “it would not be impossible, but it would be very unusual” for someone to enter the complex at night.
Police maintain that their investigations found nothing to suggest Nora had been kidnapped.
Alliff Benjamin Suhaimi, a lawyer representing the complex, said: “There was no evidence to suggest foul play or third party intervention with respect to the case.
“So specifically, there was no reason for the police to even suspect or investigate a kidnapping angle on this particular issue.”
