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SEREMBAN (Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia) Dec 1 (Bernama) —\nA forensic pathologist appointed by the United Kingdom’s Coroner Monday\nconcurred with the Malaysian post-mortem report on Irish-French teenager\nNora Anne Quoirin’s cause of death — duodenal ulceration, perforation\nand haemorrhage as a result of starvation and physiological stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his six-page witness statement, Dr Nathaniel\nRoger Blair Cary, 63, noted that based on his own examination of the teenager’s\nbody in the UK on Aug 28 last year, and on the findings of his Malaysian\ncounterparts, he also found no sign of sexual assault on\nthe teenager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs to the findings on the internal organs, there\nwas no underlying natural disease that caused or contributed to\ndeath,” he said adding that, however, he was unable to do more due to the\nbody\u2019s decomposed state, especially when he conducted the examination 15\ndays after the body was found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have seen the copy of the\npathologist report from Malaysia by Dr Siew Sheue Feng and\nDr Hanif Mahmud (both forensic pathology experts), that there was thorough\nexamination. I was satisfied that there was evidence of duodenal\nulceration, perforation and haemorrhage on the basis of a detailed\ndescription provided.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Cary, who is the 41st witness at the inquest to\ndetermine the cause of Nora Anne’s death, said this when testifying on the\n20th day of the proceedings before Coroner Maimoonah Aid. The\nproceeding today continued online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said initially\nupon examining the teenager\u2019s genitalia, excluding sexual\nassault was not possible as it was decomposed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHowever, my further examination of the labia majora\ndid not show any evidence of bruising at all and the\nsubcutaneous tissues were well preserved,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked by deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Sazali Omar,\nwho is acting as the inquest coordinating officer, whether\nthis finding indicated that there was no positive forensic evidence\nof sexual assault like stated in the Malaysian post-mortem report, Dr Cary\nsaid he agreed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am unable to exclude it from my examination alone,\nbut if one adopts the Malaysian pathologist report and in my opinion the\nexamination had been very thorough, I agree that there\nis no positive evidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ahmad Sazali: If there were an element of foul play,\nwould you have found it on the body of Nora Anne? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Cary: Many types of foul play signs will be\napparent in any case, but it seems to me the overriding cause of\ndeath was like what was discovered by the Malaysian\npathologists, which was intestinal bleeding. \n <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ahmad Sazali: I mean physical assault defensive wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Cary: My examination was very limited\ndue to the decomposing state of the body, but the first pathologists\nwere in a much better position to give an opinion on that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nora Anne, 15, went missing on Aug 4, a day after she and\nher family arrived in Malaysia for a two-week holiday at a resort in Pantai,\nhere, about 60 kilometres south of Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Aug 13, 10 days after she went missing, her body was\nfound near a creek at a ravine, about 2.5 km from the resort where she and\nher family stayed, following a massive search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The preliminary post-mortem report stated that the\ndeath of the teenager with disabilities, had no criminal element, and\nshe was confirmed dead from gastrointestinal bleeding due to prolonged\nhunger and stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The inquest will continue on Dec 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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