Nora Quoirin could not have reached the steep ravine where her body was found by herself, a search team member in Malaysia has claimed.
The volunteer, an expert in the area, said it would have been 'impossible' for the barefoot 15-year-old girl to walk across the forest on her own.
Nora’s body was found in a jungle ravine on Tuesday, 10 days after she went missing in Seremban, 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur.
Early this morning her family claimed her body from the Tuanku Ja'afar Hospital, the Star Online reports.
But her parents - Meabh, 45, and Sebastien, 47 - were not seen at the hospital compound.
Negri Sembilan Police Chief Datuk Mohamad Mat Yusop confirmed the body has been taken to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Nora suffered from physical and mental disabilities and that made it difficult for her to walk across slippery, deep stream to where she was found.
The unnamed volunteer told MailOnline : "Nora couldn't have got there by herself. I struggled to walk.
"The path is difficult even for an able-bodied person.
"Dense vegetation snags your feet. The roots and rocks are wet My boots were destroyed by the end and Nora was barefoot."
He also explained the average gradient of the slope was range from 20 to 40 per cent and Nora would have to cross two streams.
Nora's parents are now considering asking for a second postmortem on her body as they want to be sure pathologists have not missed any evidence on her death.
A source told the Mirror: "They are deliberating. They need to decide whether they would ask for it to be done in Malaysia or elsewhere.”
"If something criminal were found, the problem with doing it away from Malaysia is that admissibility of the evidence could be an issue.”
Nora was on holiday with her parents and siblings, Innes, 12, and Maurice, eight at the time of her death.
The initial postmortem revealed that she had not been violated or harmed, and died from gastrointestinal bleeding, likely due to stress and hunger from going days without food.
