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Nora Quoirin inquest: Malaysia coroner gives ‘misadventure’ verdict in French-Irish teenager’s death
- Coroner Maimoonah Aid told a Malaysian court that ‘there was no one involved’ in Quoirin’s death at a resort outside Kuala Lumpur in 2019
- Nora’s parents think she was abducted, saying the teenager would never have climbed out of the window of the chalet in the dead of night
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A French-Irish teenager with learning difficulties died by “misadventure” after disappearing in the Malaysian jungle on a family holiday and no one else was involved, a coroner ruled on Monday.
The body of Nora Quoirin, a 15-year-old with learning difficulties, was discovered unclothed after a hunt through the rainforest following her disappearance from a resort outside Kuala Lumpur in 2019.
Police insisted there was no foul play and an autopsy conducted in Malaysia found that she probably starved and died of internal bleeding after days in the jungle. The coroner said there was no sign the 15-year-old was murdered or sexually assaulted.
But her parents thought she was abducted, saying the teenager would never have climbed out of the window of the chalet where they were staying in the dead of night, as authorities believe.
However, following an inquest in Malaysia, Coroner Maimoonah Aid ruled she died by “misadventure”.
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