Three Nigerian sisters who drowned in UK sea took own lives – Inquest Rules

An inquest has ruled that three Nigerian sisters who drowned in the sea off Brighton, southern England, took their own lives. The sisters, Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, lived together in Greenford, west London. They had become increasingly withdrawn following the death of their mother in 2010. The inquest heard that the sisters visited an area of Birmingham close to where their mother died on May 11 before travelling to Brighton the following day. They were later seen on the town’s eastern seafront in the early hours of May 13, when they entered the sea in difficult conditions. None of the sisters could swim. Their father, Joseph Jacobsen, described the loss of his three daughters as heartbreaking. Coroner Penelope Schofield said the court could not speculate on the reasons behind the sisters’ actions.

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