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The family of Nora Quoirin have requested the ending of \u201cunhelpful\u201d comments by family members or those claiming to act on their behalf following the death of their daughter in a Malaysian jungle.<\/p>\nThe family of Nora Quoirin have requested the ending of \u201cunhelpful\u201d comments by family members or those claiming to act on their behalf following the death of their daughter in a Malaysian jungle.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old\u2019s unclothed body was discovered on Tuesday 1.6 miles from a holiday resort where the family had been staying.<\/p>\n
Early today the teenager\u2019s family issued a statement asking the media to only rely on comments issued on their behalf by the Lucie Blackman Trust (LBT).<\/p>\n
\u201cNora\u2019s family are concerned that continued reporting of comments such as those recently reported are unhelpful and may hinder any investigations, as well as causing confusion and distress for them,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Lucie Blackman Trust is arranging repatriation of Nora\u2019s body and no further information concerning this, including dates or destinations, will be released at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malaysian police said following a postmortem that Nora starved after her disappearance and there was no evidence of abduction or kidnapping \u201cfor the time being\u201d.<\/p>\n
The family confirmed in today\u2019s statement that no reward payments were made prior to the discovery of Nora\u2019s body, and noted that a police hotline remains open for those with information on the case.<\/p>\n
After meeting Malaysia\u2019s deputy prime minister on Friday, her family said they are \u201cstruggling to understand the events of the last 10 days\u201d.<\/p>\n
The statement, issued on their behalf by LBT, added: \u201cThe initial post-mortem results have given some information that helps us to understand Nora\u2019s cause of death.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut our beautiful innocent girl died in extremely complex circumstances and we are hoping that soon we will have more answers to our many questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malaysian police said Nora is likely to have spent a week in the jungle on her own.<\/p>\n
The Irish teenager, who was born with the brain defect holoprosencephaly and was described by her family as \u201cvulnerable\u201d, went missing from the resort of Dusun on Sunday, August 4.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old had died between two and four days before her body was discovered, a postmortem examination revealed.<\/p>\n
The family said they will be bringing Nora\u2019s body home \u201cwhere she will finally be laid to rest, close to her loving families in France and Ireland\u201d.<\/p>\n
They also thanked Malaysian authorities and search parties for their efforts locating the teenager.<\/p>\n
\u201cTragically, as we know, this wasn\u2019t enough to save Nora,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
Nora lived in London and was the daughter of French-Irish parents Sebastien and Meabh Quoirin.<\/p>\n
Negeri Sembilan state police chief Mohamad Mat Yusop said on Thursday that the postmortem examination had found no evidence that the teenager had been abducted or raped.<\/p>\n
He said she had died between two and four days previously, from intestinal bleeding, most likely due to starvation and stress.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe cause of death was upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to duodenal ulcer, complicated with perforation \u2026 it could be due to a lack of food for a long period of time and due to prolonged stress.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said there were some bruises on her legs but these would not have caused her death.<\/p>\n
Further analysis is due on samples taken from her body, he added.<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s statement, the Quoirin family said ongoing investigations would continue in France as is standard practice for overseas cases involving French citizens.<\/p>\n