Exhibit shown in yesterday's hearing: Lot 59 at the Dusun.
The hut near Nora's body has been mentioned before in the media (the
cigarette butts are new to us).
Only since a couple of days do we know about the cigarette butts at the hut.
Witness testimony, October 21:
The witness said he saw the body around 50m from a hut the search team had previously passed by.
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he saw other things around the hut including food containers and drink bottle."
Witness discovered Nora Quoirin's body 50m from hut rescuers had passed by, inquest told
Apparently there were also some cigarette butts.
Has the other stuff including the drink bottle also been tested for DNA?
At the hearing(s) it was said that Nora's DNA had not been found at the hut. Therefore also not on the bottle?
Well done pulling those stills and enlarging them so well!
All very well announcing the inquest will be public and transparent when no translations are provided.
No idea whether bottle or buts were analysed.. we do not know if the question was asked, even.
It all comes down to Nora's ability and limitations as presented in the reports submitted by her teacher from the various health care experts who had monitored her.
They seem to be saying she was quite unable to reach the place where she was found.
dehydration as cause of death , as you pointed out is absent.
Likewise, absence of water from stream where she was found in her system suggests she did not drink from it.
It's a huge disappointment that decomposition had set in so quickly and limited so much.
I'm not sure the second autopsy helped in any way or was in any way necessary. It added nothing to the very comprehensive Malaysian autopsy.
The absence of local knowledge of dynamics between Dosun owners and other people living in the area is unhelpful in any assessment of alternative scenarios. They would be speculative in any case.
I don't believe she walked to where she was found if I accept her teacher's testimony and her parents' testimonies, which I do, having no reason to dispute them.
It was a long night between 11pm and 7am...8 hrs of darkness unaccounted for...anything could have happened.