POLICE today denied a foreign media report claiming they had taken the parents of 15-year-old Nora Anne Quoirin to meet mediums after the search for the Franco-Irish teenager came to a dead end. 

Negri Sembilan police chief Mohamad Mat Yusop said he had given no such orders to any of his officers. 

“No necessity at all (to do so),” was his brief answer in a WhatsApp text message to Bernama today. 

In its report today, the UK’s Daily Mail, quoting sources familiar with the investigation, said the police, in their desperation, had taken Nora Anne’s parents to meet several mediums in the hopes of finding a breakthrough when the search for the teenager appeared to have come to a dead end.

The report said the police had taken the parents –  mother Meabh and father Sebastien – to meet the mediums on the night before her body was found the next day. 

The body of the special needs teenager was found last Tuesday on the 10th day of search-and-rescue operations about 2.5km from an eco resort in Pantai after she went missing on August 4, a day after she and her family checked in for a holiday.

Police said a post-mortem on Nora Anne conducted on Wednesday revealed she had died of gastrointestinal bleeding after having gone without food for a long time as well as prolonged stress. 

Meanwhile, Mohamad also confirmed that the family had left the country. – Bernama, August 19, 2019.