Three sisters of Nigerian descent who drowned in the sea off Brighton committed suicide, inquest finds

Three Nigerian sisters whose bodies were recovered from the sea off Brighton in the UK took their own lives, a coroner has ruled.

Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, had been living “very secluded lives” following the death of their mother, who drowned in 2010, senior coroner Penelope Schofield said.

On 11 May, the sisters, who had all been living together in Greenford, London, visited an area of Birmingham close to where their mother died before travelling the next day to Brighton beach, where they drowned in adverse sea conditions in the early hours of 13 May. The coroner said they could not swim.

Their father Joseph Jacobsen said it was heartbreaking to lose “all three of my precious daughters”.

Paying tribute to his daughters, their father, Joseph Jacobson, who attended the Brighton inquest via videolink, said in a written statement:

“To lose all three of my precious daughters, Jane, Christina and Rebecca, is a heartbreak beyond anything I could ever have imagined.

“May your beautiful souls rest in perfect peace.”

He could not understand why his daughters’ lives ended so suddenly, and hoped they were reunited with their mother “in God’s eternal care”, he added.

The coroner told the court: “These three sisters lived very secluded lives, they were incredibly private, we don’t know why they took this course of action or indeed why they chose to do it in Brighton.

“It is not for the court to speculate and sadly these reasons may never be known.”

The hearing was told the sisters left their home in London and arrived in Brighton together by taxi at 22:21 BST on 12 May.

The Uber driver had noted the lack of conversation during their journey.

The three appeared to pace the seafront in the darkness, with CCTV sightings of them at different points along Brighton’s east beach. They were last seen alive at 02:42 on 13 May.

According to BBC News, Police searched Christina’s laptop and found 227 references to water and 179 references to suicide.

The coroner said Christina had been experiencing anxiety and depression since the death of her mother.

Rebecca’s medical records showed “nothing of note” and Jane was not registered with a doctor, Det Ch Insp Mark Cullimore told the court.

A previous inquest into their mother’s death had found her cause of death was drowning.

Postmortem tests revealed toxicology results for all three sisters were negative for drugs and alcohol. There was no evidence to suggest they had been subject to violence.

Ms Adetoro was brought to shore by an RNLI crew and declared dead at the scene on the morning of 13 May, the inquest heard.

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This is so hard to comprehend. All 3 cannot just answer to the voice of suicide. This is EVIL

10 likes 0 dislikes Reply A I am deeply shaken by this; very painful:-RIP.

3 likes 0 dislikes Reply A This is very puzzling

4 likes 0 dislikes Reply J If they were in Naija, I would be tempted to say they came from the water and went back to their abode.

5 likes 0 dislikes Reply A So the three of them just decided to comit sucide at the same time, there is More to this story that we have not heard…

9 likes 0 dislikes Reply A Very tragic. Is it possible that their father was abusing them when they were younger and the trauma of living with that experience led them to jointly commit suicide???? Because why will they all want to leave their father broken hearted if they loved him???? Not one but all three children deciding not even him was worth staying alive for. Above all Life is spiritual and a big mystery. God have mercy on your souls beautiful girls.

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