Parents of Brit teen missing in Malaysia are considering offering a reward
EXCLUSIVE: Nora Quoirin's devastated parents Meabh and Sebastien were last night considering offering a cash reward in a desperate bid to help find the 15-year-old
The parents of a teenager who has gone missing in Malaysia are considering offering a cash reward.
Officers from Scotland Yard and the National Crime Agency are helping in the hunt for British teen Nora Quoirin.
The team is also co-operating with Irish officers, who are understood to have hostage and kidnap specialists on standby if it is proved the 15-year-old was abducted.
A spokesman for the Irish-French Quoirin family said: “I’m delighted to see support deployed.”
Parents Meabh and Sebastien were last night considering offering a reward after hundreds of volunteers spent an eighth day searching the Malaysian jungle.
If the family, of Balham, South West London, do offer a reward, they may choose to use money from two online funds set up by relatives.
Nora's devastated parents Meabh and Sebastien were last night considering offering a cash reward in a desperate bid to help find her (Image: Daily Mirror)
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The accounts had last night raised nearly £100,000.
Another source said: “They think it may help but are taking thorough advice. They’re going through hell.”
Jim Gamble, ex-chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, is advising the family. He has urged them to consider an incentive, saying it may “prompt someone’s conscience”.
Negeri Sembilan state police chief Mohamad Bin Mat Yusof said he had spoken to Nora’s parents about the possibility. He also confirmed the opening of a Malaysian hotline.
Nora's father Sebastian meets Deputy Inspector General of Malaysian Police Mazlan Bin Mansor (Image: Daily Mirror)
Nora has the brain condition holo-prosencephaly, which makes walking and caring for herself hard.
She was last seen at the holiday cottage on Saturday August 3 after arriving with Meabh, 45, and Sebastien, 47, and siblings Innes, 12, and Maurice, eight.
Police, who say they have no leads, believe barefoot Nora left through a window. Her dad raised the alarm at 8am the following day.
Her family believe she must have been abducted and have told how the severity of her disability means she “does not go anywhere alone”.
The family’s own hotline number has received hundreds of calls.
Dad Sebastien, a data analysis firm salesman, yesterday met the country’s deputy inspector general of police Mazlan Bin Mansor, who gave a speech to some of the 296 search workers and volunteers.
An NCA spokeswoman said: “The National Crime Agency, the Met Police and An Garda Siochana are working together.”