S Udiasoorian from the Forensic Laboratory Division (D10), Negeri Sembilan police contingent headquarters said instead, an autopsy conducted on Aug 13 last year found scratches on her legs and multiple insect bites all over her body.
“I saw her body lying, tilted to her left in a fetal position in a creek and I also found three dry twigs on the victim’s body believed to have fallen from a tree,” he said.
Udiasoorian, who is the 40th witness at the inquest to determine the cause of Nora Anne’s death said this when testifying at the 19th day of the proceedings before Coroner Maimoonah Aid.
The witness, 59, said Nora Anne’s corpse was found in a 2.27-metre-wide and eight-centimetre-deep creek but the police team did not find any physical evidence within a 100-metre radius of the body.
Udiasoorian, in reading his witness statement, testified that there were no footprints where the teenager’s body was found on the day of the incident which prompted the police team to collect two soil samples from beneath the body and surroundings areas for comparison.
During the one-hour and 46-minutes proceeding, the witness also agreed to a question by the counsel representing Nora Anne’s family, S Sakthyvell that the stream where Nora Anne’s body was found could have removed any trace of footprints.
The police officer, who joined the D10 unit in July 2017, also testified that nine different types of vehicles were inspected and 55 swab samples for DNA were taken from the vehicles for further action by the investigating officer of the case.
“All the checks and swabs were done between Aug 10 and 17, last year,” he added.
Udiasoorian said he also inspected the Sora House, the two-storey villa at The Dusun Resort where Nora Anne and her family had been staying after they arrived on Aug 3, 2019.
At the location, he also collected three swabs believed to be perspiration samples, three hair samples belonging to Nora Anne and eight fingerprints from the second floor of the villa on Aug 7.
Nora Anne, 15, went missing on Aug 4, a day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia for a two-week holiday at a resort in Seremban, about 60km south of Kuala Lumpur.
On Aug 13, 10 days after she went missing, her body was found in a ravine, about 2.5km from the resort where she and her family stayed, following a massive search operation.
Preliminary surgical reports stated that there was no criminal element involved in her death, and that the teenager, who had a disability, was confirmed dead from gastrointestinal bleeding due to prolonged hunger and stress.
The inquest proceedings continue on Nov 30.