Parents confirm it is Nora Anne’s body

Alfian Z.M. Tahir Alfian Z.M. Tahir Updated 4 years ago · Published on 13 Aug 2019 9:16PM · 1 Comments

Family members and officials gather at the Forensic Department of Seremban's Tuanku Ja'afar Hospital, where Nora Anne Quoirin's body was brought. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, August 13, 2019.

THE body that was found in a  jungle stream near Seremban today is Nora Anne Quoirin, her parents confirmed after viewing the remains at hospital this evening.

Negri Sembilan police chief Mohamad Mat Yusof said the family were brought to Seremban’s Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital after the discovery and a post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow.

“The family has confirmed it is Nora,” he said.

“A post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow by a senior pathologist from Kuala Lumpur Hospital,” Mohamad said. 

Mohamad said the search has been suspended until the post-mortem is completed.

“My team is at the scene and they are on standby,” he said.

The Quoirin family arrived at the hospital at about 7pm but did not address the media.

Quoirin’s father, Sebastian was seen consoling his wife, Meabh who was seen crying upon entering the mortuary.

Nora Anne Quoirin's relatives at Seremban's Tuanku Ja'afar Hospital to identify her body. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, August 13, 2019.

Quoirin’s body was found at 2pm today by a group of rescuers in a small stream 2km from the Dusun Pantai Hill eco resort, where the family was planning to stay for a two-week holiday.

Earlier, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Mazlan Mansor said the body, which was found unclothed, resembled Nora Anne, but police  needed confirmation from the hospital.

So far, no signs have been found at the scene of a crime having taken place.

Quoirin went missing from her room early on Sunday morning last week after arriving at the Dusun eco resort the day before.

Sebastian lodged a police report at 11am after realising his daughter was not in her room about 7am.

More than 300 rescuers were deployed, including elite commandos from the police’s VAT69 and trackers from the Senoi Praaq unit.

Sniffer dogs, drones equipped with thermal imaging and helicopters were used in the search.

Police also used a recording of Quoirin’s mother to draw the teenager out of the jungle.

Negri Sembilan police chief Mohamad Mat Yusof says Nora Anne Quoirin's family have confirmed that the British teenager's body has been found. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, August 13, 2019.

Certain quarters have urged investigators to look into kidnapping, however, police say no evidence had been found to indicate an abduction had ocurred.

However, police did not discount the kidnapping angle, and still searched more than 30 homes near the Dusun resort.

Yesterday, her parents announced a reward of RM50,000 for information leading to the return of their daughter.

The money was donated by an anonymous Belfast-based business. – August 13, 2019.

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  • Our condolence and sympathy goes to the family and in a way glad this whole sad episode came to an end though its a tragic one. Question remains however how did the search and rescue missed it out in the earlier effort? I am not questioning the SAR sincere efforts but the method applied in the search now is been questions not only by us Malaysian but also by the world at large. Could she stands a chance surviving if found much earlier not to mentioned the family agony through out the whole duration. I bet the international media will raise the SAR method applied thus a post mortem to strengthen future efforts.

    Posted 4 years ago by Teruna Kelana · Reply