SEREMBAN, Nov 23 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The former manager of Dusun Resort, Helen Todd\u00a0today told the Coroner\u2019s\u00a0Court here that the resort was a safe place\u00a0despite\u00a0one or two\u00a0broken fences in the western side of the resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Todd, 77, said there was no incident of burglary or intruder reported at the resort and it was a safe place as she and her family have been living in that property for the past 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy husband and I live in this property for more that 30 years with my two children and grandchildren. It is always a safe place for my family and I living in very open fence (which) anybody actually can climb up to the deck and balcony, but nobody ever did. We never had burglary or intruder in any of our houses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Todd, who is the 38th witness at the inquest proceedings to determine the cause of French-Irish teenager Nora Anne Quoirin’s death said this when testifying on the 18th day of the proceedings before Coroner Maimoonah Aid. The proceeding today was held online due to the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked by the family\u2019s counsel Louise Azmi if she noticed the gap at the resort\u2019s back fence and if Nora Anne have to climb it to get out, Todd who is a shareholder of The Dusun said:\u201d The fence at the back was almost flat to the ground but she still have to climb over it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To another question by the lawyer of The Dusun Resort, Datuk Dr Gurdial Singh Nijar if she had seen Nora Anne\u2019s family on the day they arrived on Aug 3, 2019, Todd said she saw them at 5.30 pm while she, her husband and grandson were swimming in the pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI saw Qouirin\u2019s family walking down the stairs and they all dressed up for walking with walking shoes, long sleeve shirts and they went pass the pool up to Berlin gate and after that I didn\u2019t see where they went,\u201d she said adding that all of them were walking normally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the manager of The Dusun Resort, Nur Asmaq Lokman, 30, in her statement said that before the arrival of the family at the Sora House villa, there were 13 families staying in the same villa from July 5 to Aug 2 the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 39th witness said during the period, the faulty window latch at the villa was not yet repaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think it (faulty latch) has been like that for a long time. In July, I asked Adam (resort worker) to look for the latch and Adam tried but could not find the same one and I said it was alright as Sora would be renovated in October, so we just let the matter rest,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked by Coroner Maimoonah on the reaction of the children of Meabh Jaseprine Quoirin and Sebastien Quoirin when she was briefing them on the facilities in the villa a day before Nora Anne was found missing, Nur Asmaq said she was only aware of the reaction of Nora Anne\u2019s younger brother, Maurice Arthure who was seen very active and talked a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNora was quiet and when I was explaining that the window can be opened if it was hot, Nora was sitting in the spiral staircase,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nora Anne, 15, went missing on Aug 4 last year, a day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia for a two-week holiday at a resort in Pantai here, about 60 km south of Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nora Anne\u2019s body was found nine days later on Aug 13, near a stream in a hilly area, about 2.5 km from the resort, following a massive search operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A preliminary post-mortem report revealed there were no criminal elements in Nora Anne\u2019s death and that the teenager had died of gastrointestinal bleeding, due to prolonged stress and hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The court proceeding continues tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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