Nora Quoirin’s family to challenge Malaysian inquest ruling
- A coroner ruled that the London teenager’s 2019 death near a Malaysian jungle resort was due to ‘misadventure’
- But her family say many questions were left unanswered and they believe her body was placed where it was found 10 days after she disappeared
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Earlier this month, a coroner handed down a ruling of misadventure, indicating her death was accidental rather than a crime, and said no one else was involved.
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But her London-based parents, who believe the schoolgirl was abducted, now plan to file a request for the ruling to be revised in the High Court, said lawyer S. Sakthyvell.
The challenge would be submitted “as soon as possible” in the court in the city of Seremban but he could not confirm when it would begin.
If that fails, the family can lodge a final challenge at the court of appeal.
The teen’s mother, Meabh, told the BBC this week that “so many questions have been left unanswered” after the verdict, and she believed someone had placed her daughter’s body in the spot where it was found.
The teenager disappeared a day after her family checked in to the Dusun Resort, triggering a 10-day hunt involving hundreds of rescuers, helicopters and sniffer dogs.
Malaysian police say Nora Quoirin died from hunger, stress, no sign of abduction
Her body was found not far from the resort. Police said there was no sign of foul play while an autopsy concluded she likely died of starvation and internal bleeding.
The coroner suggested she likely wandered out of the family’s holiday chalet in the night of her own accord after a long journey from Britain to Malaysia left her disoriented.
But her parents have dismissed this theory.
