A teenager found dead in a Malaysian jungle half a mile from her family’s holiday villa could not walk more than 20ft on her own, her inquest has heard.
Nora Quoirin, 15, who had severe learning difficulties, was found naked at the bottom of a rocky slope and with no cuts to her bare feet, 10 days after going missing.
Following her death, a funeral service for the tragic teen was held in South Belfast in the same church she was baptised.
Police superintendent Mohamad Besar said her parents had told officers Nora could not go far without them.
He told the hearing: “Due to the victim’s special condition, she was not able to go beyond 20ft on foot on her own. The resort and surrounding vicinity were new to her and terrain unfamiliar. She was a foreigner and had a communication impediment.”
But police say Nora climbed out of a window with a faulty lock.
They carried out searches “to secure evidence of possible foul play”, the superintendent said, and “concluded the window at the loft where she had gone to sleep was the access”.
On Monday another police chief told the first day of the hearing that officers do not believe Nora was kidnapped as there was no ransom request and no fingerprints were found on the window.
The family, from Wandsworth, South West London, had been staying at The Durun eco-resort near Seremban, 50 miles south of Kuala Lumpur.
The search for Nora involved thermal imaging drones, sniffer dogs, the civil guard, specialist jungle trackers, helicopters and around 500 people.
Police also searched a deer enclosure after being told that Nora was drawn to “gentle animals”.
Mr Besar said that on day six of the search police were told Nora was being held near a water treatment plant around three miles away. There police held a man in his 50s who tested positive for drugs.
He added: “Each day when the teams returned, they looked more forlorn...that they had to report ‘zero findings’.”
Nora’s parents Meabh and Sebastien are represented by lawyer Sakthy Vell at the continuing hearing in Malaysia.
