Parents of Nora Quoirin call for review of inquest ruling amid fears she was abducted

The 15-year-old vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019 and was found nine days later

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The parents of a British teenager who was found dead in the Malaysian jungle have called for a review of the inquest into her death, as they believe somebody “placed” her body in a clearing. 

A coroner in Malaysia said this month that no third party was involved in the death of Nóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, and she probably died from misadventure.

The 15-year-old vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019 and was found nine days later. 

A post-mortem examination concluded she had likely starved and died from internal bleeding. 

Her parents, however, find it incomprehensible that she would have left the resort of her own volition as she suffered from serious learning difficulties and would have been "petrified" at the prospect.

Meabh Quoirin, her mother, said she thought Nora had been abducted and vowed that the family would “never give up their fight for justice”. 

She told the BBC that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in seven days before Nora’s body was discovered.

Ms Quoirin continued: “The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point.”

She said the inquest had not explained how Nora had ended up in the jungle, where her body was found, unclothed, by a group of volunteers. 

The family have for a revision of the inquest verdict as "so many questions have been left unanswered".