SEREMBAN – The Coroner's Court was told today that the search and rescue (SAR) team tasked with looking for missing Franco-Irish teen Nora Anne Quorin, had already searched the area where she was later found.
Inspector Hor Ming Jai, 30, from the General Operations Force (GOF) in Semenyih, Selangor, said the team entered two search zones, marked as 'zone five and zone six' on August 7 and 8 last year, but did not find any positive indication of the teenager's whereabouts.
Nora Anne’s body was found in the area marked as zone six on August 13, 2019.
“On August 7 and 8, we were the first team to enter the zone and no indication was obtained on both days,” said Hor, the 22nd witness to testify in the inquest to determine the actual cause of Nora Anne’s death.
It was held before Coroner Maimoonah Aid.
The inspector described the area as difficult to walk through while barefoot, but with narrow trails to walk, with a steep slope and undergrowth, that was not explored, though observations were made.
To a question by lawyer S. Sakthyvell, representing the teenager’s family, on whether he noticed any footprints near a stream, Hor said he did not.
"It is a bush area and if anything passes through, the undergrowth will split and since there was no split in the bush, we did no enter the area, that’s the technique,” he said, adding that the SAR on August 8 focused on the area along the stream, where no leads on the girl’s presence were found.
The inquest is being conducted by deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Sazali Omar.
Nora Anne, went missing on August 4 last year, a day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia for a two-week holiday at a resort in Pantai. Her body was found on August 13 near a stream about 2.5 km from the resort, following a massive search conducted by the authorities.
A preliminary post-mortem report revealed there were no criminal elements in Nora Anne’s death and that the teenager had died of gastrointestinal bleeding, due to prolonged stress and hunger. – Bernama, October 20, 2020
