Shock in Great Britain, the drowning of 3 sisters in Brighton was a collective suicide

A heartbreaking, and in some ways inexplicable, family tragedy, probably the result of the re-emergence more than 15 years later of unbearable pain over the loss of her mother. A collective suicide was the cause of the death of three British sisters in their early thirties, residents of London and born to a family of Caribbean origin, who drowned last May in the waters off Brighton after jumping from a pier late in the evening, victims of an affair followed with great emotion by the media.

This is certified by the legal response of a coroner according to which Jane Adetoro, aged 36, Christina Walters, aged 32, and Rebecca Walters, aged 31, voluntarily jumped into the sea on 11 May all together. To get it over with.

The coroner, Penelope Schofield, delivered her verdict during a hearing, underlining how the tests did not find any traces of drugs or alcohol in the blood of the three sisters. They surrendered themselves to the cold waters in front of a beach in Brighton, aware "of not knowing how to swim and of the adverse sea conditions".

According to what emerged from the police investigations, Jane, Christine and Rebecca, before the fatal journey from London to the seaside city in the south of England overlooking the English Channel, had visited the area near Birmingham where several years earlier, in 2010, their mother had drowned, leaving them prematurely.

The father, Joseph Jacobsen, the only survivor of a destroyed family, followed the hearing via video link, petrified. "There are no words to adequately express the pain of losing a son, losing all three of my beloved daughters breaks my heart," he later wrote in a statement: clinging only to the hope that they will be reunited with their mother "under the eternal custody of God."