England: three sisters commit suicide at sea, sixteen years after their mother drowned

Three sisters committed suicide by drowning in May in Brighton, in the south of England, sixteen years after the death of their mother in similar circumstances, according to the conclusions Thursday of an inquest into these deaths which caused strong emotion in the United Kingdom. The bodies of Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, three sisters who lived together in west London, were pulled from the water early on the morning of May 13 in the seaside town of Brighton.

On May 11, the three women traveled to Birmingham, central England, where a taxi dropped them off on the street where their mother lived and not far from where she drowned in 2010, the inquest heard. According to the Daily Mail and the Sun, she also committed suicide.

A taxi then dropped the three sisters off on the evening of May 12 near the beach in Brighton. “On May 13, when it was dark, they entered the water. They did not know how to swim and the conditions at sea were unfavorable,” detailed the magistrate in charge of the forensic investigation, Penelope Schofield, in court. “I came to the conclusion that the sisters deliberately entered the water with the intention of ending their lives,” she said.

Penelope Schofield stressed that she did not know the reasons for their suicide. Christina suffered from "anxiety and depression" since her mother's death. Police found numerous references to suicide while searching his computer history.