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Balinese police will question staff at the dental clinic after an Australian college student who visited the Indonesian island for work on her teeth was found dead on the bathroom floor of her hotel room.
Forensic experts have revealed that there were no signs of trauma on the body of 25-year-old Niamh Finneran Loader when she was discovered at the famous Kuta-Bali hotel on December 2.
The Irish-born Ms Loader had reportedly gone to the popular holiday destination to have a bone graft and false tooth done, but mystery surrounds how and when she died.
Kuta Police Chief Yogie Pramagita said his officers had searched the room where Ms Loader had stayed and questioned at least seven people, including hotel staff.
“We will ask the representative of the dental treatment place questions,” he told Daily Mail Australia.
‘We cannot make the conclusion of this case just based on assumptions. We should first see the result of the autopsy to find the cause of his death, so that we can draw a conclusion about this case.
Balinese police will question workers at a dental clinic after Australian university student Niamh Finneran Loader, who visited the Indonesian island for teeth work, was found dead on the bathroom floor of her hotel.
Ms Loader’s body was found at the famous Kuta-Bali hotel on December 2. Five days passed before she arrived at a separate hospital for forensic analysis.
Indonesian forensic experts told Nine News they were puzzled as to why the police did not bring Ms Loader’s remains to the hospital until December 7, five days after her body was found.
Dr Ida Bagus Puta Alit, head of forensic medicine at Bali’s Prof Ngoerah Hospital, told the television network: “We don’t know where the body was before that, and why it was only brought to our hospital five days later. of the date of death”.
The young woman’s family was notified of her death several days before the body arrived at the hospital. London-based relative Chloe Marie Loader posted about the commotion on Facebook on December 3, four days before the body was found.
‘Yesterday we lost an incredible woman. Woke up today and reality hit me, hard, that she really is gone,” Ms Loader wrote. ‘No matter the physical distance between us, we have been so close all these years.
“From children’s swings, to young adult clubbing, to dolphin watching in Australia and all the talks in between, I will always treasure all of our special memories together forever.”
A family tribute to Niamh Loader posted to Facebook in December by a relative, confirming that the Irish-born student died on December 2.
However, a local police source told Daily Mail Australia that Ms Loader was immediately taken to hospital near the hotel when she was found.
“The doctor found out that he was already dead once he got to the hospital,” the source said. The hospital then sent his body to the morgue, Dharma Yadnya, and he was later transferred to the hospital.
Dr. Alit said a preliminary inspection was carried out immediately after the body arrived at the hospital, but an autopsy was not carried out until December 13.
Doctors were now awaiting the results of pathology and toxicology tests, which could take a month.
Forensic specialist Dr Nola Margaret Gunawan confirmed to Nine that it was not known what happened in the five days after Ms Loader’s death, but experts continued to conduct a “comprehensive examination”.
Her father, Malcolm Loader, told the West Australian that his daughter was “very happy” with the results of the “minor” dental procedure she received.
“Police are currently investigating…we have no idea (what caused his death) at this time,” Loader said.
Ms Loader’s parents will not know the cause of her untimely death for several weeks or even months as police continue to investigate.
It is understood that Loader and his wife Tina Finneran hired lawyers and flew to Bali to bring their daughter’s body to Perth.
Friends have also set up a GoFundMe page to raise money, as Ms Loader is believed to have traveled without insurance.
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that it was “providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian who died in Bali.”
“Due to our privacy obligations, we are unable to provide further comment,” they added.
western australia he first broke the news of Ms Loader’s death on December 13, reporting that when she did not board her flight home, her parents became concerned.
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that it is “providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian who died in Bali.”
Staff at the hotel where she was staying later told her parents that Ms. Loader had booked a taxi to the international airport but never left the next day.
Her grieving father told the publication that his daughter had an “incredible future ahead of her.”
Ms Loader was studying for a master’s degree in international relations and national security at the University of Western Australia.
He recently wrote an insightful op-ed in The Spectator calling on the Australian government to ban facial recognition technology used in apps like TikTok.
Ms. Loader was due to travel to the United States in February after being awarded an internship by the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of his passing,” a Foundation spokesman said. She was a very bright student.
Ms Loader has been described as a ‘smart and dedicated’ student who immigrated to Perth from Ireland as a child.