SEREMBAN (MALAYSIA) – A court in Malaysia began inquest proceedings into the death of an Irish teenager whose body was found near a forest stream 10 days after she was reported missing from a rainforest resort where her family was holidaying.
The body of Nora Anne Quoirin, 15, was found in the nude in a ravine near the Dusun resort in Seremban, which is 70 km (44 miles) south of Kuala Lumpur, in August last year.
Police investigation ruled out abduction as there were no signs of foul play. But her family questioned the findings, saying she had never left them before voluntarily.
Coroner Maimoonah Aid told the court the inquest was aimed at finding answers to questions such as “when and where did the deceased die, how and in what manner the deceased came by her death, and … whether there is any person who was criminally concerned in the cause of death”.
According to government lawyer Muhamad Iskandar Ahmad, 64 witnesses were expected to be summoned during the two-week inquest at the Seremban Coroner’s Court.
The teenager, who had learning difficulty, hailed from London and her mother is Irish while her father is a French national.
Though her family will not attend the inquest in person, they will take part in it virtually.
Earlier, an autopsy revealed that the girl died of internal bleeding triggered by prolonged hunger and stress. She had suffered intestinal damage and died two or three days before her body was found in the ravine.
British victims’ group, the Lucie Blackman Trust, said last year the teenager’s family feared there was a criminal connection behind the disappearance and death of the girl as she had special needs and had never voluntarily left them before.
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