Post-mortem to be conducted by senior pathologist from KL
The post-mortem examination on the body of Irish teenager Nora Anne Quoirin will be conducted at the Tuanku Jaafar Hospital here at 10am today.
State police chief Datuk Mohamad Mat Yusop said this was to determine the cause of the 15year-old’s death.
“We have requested a senior pathologist from Kuala Lumpur to conduct it tomorrow (today),” he told reporters at the hospital’s mortuary after Nora’s parents, Sebastien Marie Philipe and Meabh Jaseprine Quoirin, had identified the body found earlier as that of their daughter.
Mohamad said once the results of the post-mortem were known, further investigations would be conducted.
As such, he said, the operations at The Dusun resort, where Nora had gone missing on Aug 4, would not be stood down as yet.
Nora’s remains were flown to the hospital after they were discovered by a group of hikers who had volunteered to help search for her.
She had disappeared on Aug 4, just a day after the Quoirin family of five had arrived in Malaysia for a two-week holiday.
A distinctly heavy air enveloped the mortuary’s area earlier as Sebastien and Meabh arrived to identify Nora’s remains.
Even members of the press who had been covering the case since the beginning felt the sadness, knowing what had been said earlier by Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Mazlan Mansor, that police were “very certain” the body found was that of Nora.
They waited patiently, weary as they were after 10 days of the search, yet knowing that as hard as it was for them, nothing could be as difficult as what the Quoirin family was going through.
When Sebastien and Meabh turned up, the media were caught off guard as they were brought in through a different entrance of the forensic department.
The couple was seen only from afar, hugging in an attempt to comfort each other as they walked into the mortuary.
Some 10 minutes later, several other people believed to be relatives of the Quoirin family, were also seen walking to the mortuary. However, they declined to speak when approached.
The forensics department was buzzing with police and government officials, including Deputy Women, Family, and Community Development Minister Hannah Yeoh.