The Mirror is reporting it was the hikers who reported the body to police. Also says the parents have many questions on how she got there, whereas a UK ex- policeman consulted things she went there herself and was probably not abducted.
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The family’s spokesman Matthew Searle, of the Lucie Blackman Trust, said last night that devastated parents Meabh, 45, and Sebastien, 47, have “a large amount of questions”. He said: “One of those questions is, has the body been there all the time or is there a criminal involvement? Was the body dumped there afterwards?”
Nora – who suffered from debilitating brain condition holoprosencephaly, which caused her difficulty walking, balancing and looking after herself – was found by a hiking group at the foot of the ravine next to a swamp and waterfall yesterday afternoon.
It is understood Nora had been wearing underwear when she went missing – but police said she was found “completely naked”.
Malaysia’s deputy police chief Mazlan Mansor confirmed a criminal investigation was still on-going alongside a missing persons inquiry.
He said he could not comment on whether someone else could have been involved in the tragedy or whether Nora had suffered any injuries.
......The search-and-rescue operations will not be called off until after the postmortem, said local police chief Mohamad Mat Yusof.
Shirley Yap, a member of the hiking group that found Nora’s body, had said before setting off that they planned to search for her around the waterfall in the Pantai Hills, about 40 miles south-east of capital Kuala Lumpur
She said: “We had heard she was excited about seeing a waterfall when she arrived in the resort.
“We are going to look around that area and follow the stream down the mountain.”
The group, led by Kenny Chan, trekked through “hilly and difficult” terrain not accessible to vehicles, around a an hour and 20 minutes’ walk from the resort.
They reported their discovery to the police’s search hotline at 1.57pm.
The area had already been covered by the extensive search for Nora, who went missing on August 3, just hours after arriving at the Dusun Rainforest Resort with her parents and siblings Innes, 12, and Maurice, eight.
Detectives believe she left the family’s luxury holiday cottage through its ground-floor aluminium-framed window, before her father raised the alarm over her disappearance at 8am the next day.
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Rescuers 'may have missed' body of teen during first search of jungle area