A Malaysian court on Wednesday overturned the verdict on the causes of the death of the young Franco-Irishwoman Nora Quoirin, ruling that the judicial investigation had not been conclusive. – Lai Seng Sin / AP / SIPA
What happened to young Nora Quoirin? While last January a judge had concluded that the death of the young Franco-Irish was probably due to “a mishap” in the jungle, a Malaysian court on Wednesday overturned this verdict. The latter considered, as the family of this 15-year-old girl suffering from a slight mental handicap affirmed, that the judicial investigation was not conclusive.
Nora Quoirin’s body was found on the edge of the jungle, next to a tourist complex located about 70 km south of the capital Kuala Lumpur where she was staying with her family in 2019. The January investigation concluded that his death was not related to murder or sexual assault, and no one else was considered to have been involved in this disappearance.
“No credible proof”
But her parents, a French-Irish couple who reside in London, do not believe their daughter may have ventured into the jungle alone during the night and believe that she has been kidnapped. They had appealed against the verdict, and a Malaysian judge ruled in their favor on Wednesday.
“I am of the opinion that the verdict of ‘mishap’ should be set aside, in the interests of justice and replaced with an open verdict, as there is no credible evidence to justify another verdict,” said said Judge Azizul Azmi Adnan of the High Court of Seremban, near Kuala Lumpur.
Starved?
The police have maintained 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 mother said she heard suspicious noises in the cabin the night she disappeared.
The young girl had disappeared the day after the family arrived at the Dusun resort hotel, and searches for 10 days had mobilized hundreds of people, helicopters and dogs. The autopsy had concluded that the girl had probably died of internal bleeding induced by hunger, after spending more than a week in the rainforest.