The forensic scientist at the court in Seremban, the town where the Quoirin family were staying, told the local court that the teenager’s death was likely due to a “mishap”.
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Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
A Malaysian court announced on Monday January 4 that the justice system would not reopen the investigation into the death of Nora Anne Quoirin , the 15-year-old Franco-Irish teenager whose lifeless body was found in August 2019 in a jungle near the hotel where she was staying with her family on vacation.
The medical examiner court in Seremban, the city where the Quoirin family were staying about 70 km from the capital, Kuala Lumpur, told the local court that the teenager’s death was likely due to “mishap”, not murder or sexual assault.
“Having considered all the relevant evidence, I have concluded that no one is imp liquefied in the death of Nora Anne [Quoirin], “medical examiner Maimoonah Aid said. “It is more likely that she died as a result of a mishap,” she said. For the medical examiner, the teenager surely left the family home “on her own” before getting “lost in the palm plantation” which was abandoned.
40 witnesses heard
The young girl had disappeared in 2019 the day after her arrival, with her family, at the Dusun Resort, a tourist complex located about 70 km south of Kuala Lumpur, on the edge of the jungle. The body of the teenager with a slight mental handicap was found after ten days of searching. The police had concluded to an accidental death. But the parents are convinced that their daughter was not able to venture far on her own, and that she had been abducted.
The family had called for a judicial investigation to determine the causes of death. This investigation opened at the end of August and has heard from more than 40 witnesses. The police have repeated that they have no clue that could suggest a criminal trail in the death of the teenager and believe that she herself came out of her chalet through the window.
But her parents, who live in London, said they heard suspicious noises in the chalet the night she disappeared, and described the police response as slow and ineffective. The autopsy concluded that the girl was probably dead from internal bleeding induced by hunger, after spending more than a week in the rainforest.