Daily Mail - 07.08.2019

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Lanai

Perling

houses

Tembusa

house

Lake

Deer

park

Main

entrance

Holiday chalets

Mahogany

forest

Lower

pool

Dining

patio

Private

residence

Hindu

temple

LODGE AT CENTRE OF SEARCH

The Dusun

12-acre eco-resort

After three days of searching the resort , today

police are set to concentrate on following the river

that sits 65 yards from the edge of the resort.

Alarm raised

at 8am on

Sunday when

Nora was

discovered

missing from

the chalet

bedroom she

was sharing

with her

two siblings.

KUALA

LUMPUR

10 miles

DUSUN

RESORT

2

3

1

The Quoirin

family checked

in on Saturday,

intending to stay

for two weeks.

(^) Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 7, 2019
THE family of a girl who disap-
peared on holiday in a Malay-
sian jungle resort believe police
are missing vital clues by ignor-
ing fears she was abducted.
Relatives lashed out after it
emerged that sniffer dogs lost the
scent for Nora Quoirin just 100 yards
from the eco-lodge bungalow where
she vanished on Sunday morning.
Authorities in Malaysia are adamant
the 15-year-old, who has learning diffi-
culties, knowingly ventured out of the
rented property that borders thick jun-
gle and got lost.
But her ‘increasingly frustrated’ family
fear she was snatched by a stranger and
insist that the police’s narrow approach
may be hampering the investigation.
Her father Sebastien, who found her
bed empty and the room’s window open,
said yesterday: ‘We believe she may have
been abducted.’
The search has so far seen hundreds of
From Mario Ledwith
in Malaysia
Nora Quoirin: The 15-year-old disappeared from her room
‘Increasingly
frustrated’
Villagers f ind body in plane-plunge girl hunt
From Sam Greenhill
Chief Reporter, in Madagascar
Alana Cutland
villAgERS searching for British
student Alana Cutland who leapt
from a plane over Madagascar last
night said they had found a body.
Police said the body had been provi-
sionally identified as 19-year-old Miss
Cutland after a 12-day search.
The Cambridge University student
horrified the pilot of the four-seater
Cessna plane and a fellow passenger
by flinging open the door and jumping
out at 3,700ft on July 25.
Miss Cutland, who was on a summer
internship to study indian Ocean
crabs, is believed to have suffered an
adverse reaction to anti-malarial
drugs or a vaccination. last night
Chief Prosper, the head of Anjajavy
village 400 miles north of Madagascan
capital Antananarivo, told the Mail:
‘We have found Alana. She was lying
in a flat area very far away.
‘We are very pleased after nearly two
weeks of searching to have found her.
‘Searchers are carrying her back to
the village.’ Up to 400 villagers had
been trekking barefoot for up to 15
miles a day looking for Miss Cutland
after their chief declared that ‘no one
should be lost in a strange land’. Chief
Prosper said: ‘in our tradition it is
very bad to lose a person...We have to
help her back to her homeland. it is
our tradition to return a deceased
person’s body to their parents and
this is what we must do.’
Miss Cutland, of Milton Keynes,
Buckinghamshire, was spending the
summer break on the Anjajavy penin-
sula. She became paranoid she was
performing badly in her research
project and, in her confused state,
was terrified she would be jailed.
Her parents – who said she had no
history of psychosis – grew alarmed at
her incoherent ‘mumbling’ phone
calls, and persuaded her to cut short
her trip. A British teacher staying in
the area, Ruth Johnson, offered to
chaperone her in the plane Horrified
Mrs Johnson, 51, of Banbury, Oxford-
shire, clung for two minutes to Miss
Cutland’s leg, screaming ‘Come back!
Come back!’ after she unbuckled her-
self and threw herself out of the door.
On Monday, 100 villagers performed a
cow sacrifice to ask their god to bless
the hunt. Chief Prosper said last night:
‘it worked.’ A formal identification has
yet to take place, but a police spokes-
man told the Mail: ‘She was identified
by her hair, clothes and shoes. We have
informed the British embassy.’
abducted.’ However, the local
police department is understood
to have informed the family that it
is too early to rule out kidnapping
or abduction.
The police chief said sniffer dogs
were used to investigate the scene
only hours after Nora’s disappear-
ance. But he added: ‘They only
picked up a scent some 100 metres
from the resort. They lost the trail
after that.’ Matthew Searle, of the
lucie Blackman Trust, a missing
persons charity representing the
family, said the police approach
was causing frustration.
He insisted: ‘The family don’t go
with this theory at all [that she
left the property]. They are terri-
fied at the prospect that not eve-
rything that can be done is being
done. They know Nora and what
she is capable of and don’t feel
that they are being listened to.
‘This is a girl who wouldn’t ven-
ture into her own garden without
a family member holding her hand.
They are getting increasingly frus-
trated and are all exhausted, hav-
ing not slept a great deal.’
in a statement released yester-
day, the family said: ‘We are espe-
cially worried because Nora has
learning and developmental disa-
bilities and is not like other 15-
year-olds. She looks younger, she
is not capable of taking care of her-
self and she won’t understand what
is going on.
‘She never goes anywhere by her-
self. We have no reason to believe
she wandered off and is lost.’
Mr Quoirin and his wife Meabh,
from london, checked into a two-
bedroom bungalow at the Dusun
resort with Nora and her two sib-
lings on Saturday for a ‘dream
trip’. The eco-hotel admitted the
window in Nora’s bedroom may
have been opened from outside,
contradicting earlier police state-
ments. The Trust said it was
unlikely that Nora could have
opened the window on her own.
She is understood to have been
sharing the bedroom with her
younger siblings.
Nora’s irish mother, who runs a
market research company, and
French father have been joined by
other relatives to help the search.
Rescuers will today turn their
attention to a river bordering the
12-acre resort at the foothills of
the Titiwangsa Mountains, 40
miles south of the capital Kuala
lumpur. Police believe the teen-
ager is most likely within the vicin-
ity of the resort.
A waterfall is around a 90-minute
hike away through thick jungle
but police do not believe Nora
would have gone that far.
Nora’s parents told search par-
ties that their daughter’s clothes
remained in the room and that
she must have left in her bed-
clothes, according to reports.
The resort lies in a remote area
bordering Berembun Forest
Reserve, which is home to pan-
thers, wild boar and monkeys. The
family has set up an email address
for any information about the dis-
appearance – findnoraq@gmail.
com – while a gofundme.com
appeal for donations to help with
the search had last night raised
nearly £30,000.
The owners of the resort, which
is made up of seven properties,
said they are ‘extremely distressed
and worried’. Hanim Ahmad Bam-
dhaj, whose parents run the site,
said: ‘We are (deeply) affected by
this incident and will extend our
help and assistance to help find
our missing guest.’
soldiers, police and firefighters, along
with sniffer dogs and a helicopter, scour
the jungle. Up to 180 continued to comb
a 20-acre area of dense forest last night.
Police chief Mohamad Mat Yusop said:
‘We will do our best and will not give up
hope. We feel she did not go far.
‘We have nothing that suggests there
was a criminal element in her disap-
pearance. As of now, we have not an
ounce of evidence to suggest she was
Police dogs lose
trail of missing
Nora yards from
jungle eco-resort
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