Police slow to respond to abduction fears, Nora Quoirin’s mother tells inquest

Nora Quoirin (LBT/PA)

The mother of Nora Quoirin whose body was found near a Malaysian jungle resort where she vanished while on holiday has said evidence may have been lost because police were slow to act on the possibility that her daughter could have been abducted.

Meabh Quoirin told an inquest into her 15-year-old daughter’s death that she believed she heard “muffled and whispering” sounds of two people inside the family’s cottage the morning Nora Anne Quoirin disappeared, but she took no action because she was asleep and not fully conscious at the time.