Inquest hears details of how three women spent their final days but why they ended their lives may never be known.
Jane Adetoro and her younger sisters Christina and Rebecca Walters were described by their family as "the closest sisters and the best friends." Devoted to their father, Joseph, whom they messaged every day, the adult siblings lived quiet lives in the flat they shared in west London and did everything together. When they died in May this year, it was no different.
Final Day
Early in the morning of 13 May, the sisters’ bodies were recovered from the sea in Brighton, just hours after a taxi had dropped them at the beachfront. On Thursday, an inquest in the city found that the women, who all drowned, died by suicide a day after making a pilgrimage together to the lake in Birmingham where their mother died by drowning 16 years earlier.
In a statement, Joseph Jacobson told the inquest that the scale of his loss was indescribable.
“"There are no words that can adequately express the pain of losing a child. To lose all three of my precious daughters, Jane, Christina and Rebecca, is a heartbreak beyond anything I could ever have imagined."
Jacobson, who attended the inquest by video link, expressed his confusion over their sudden deaths.
“"You were my daughters, you will always be my daughters and I will love you for the rest of my life. May your beautiful souls rest in perfect peace."
Circumstances of the Tragedy
The senior coroner Penelope Schofield stated that the reasons behind the sisters' decision to end their lives may never be known.
“"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."
Police were able to establish how the women spent the day before their deaths. On the night of 11 May, the sisters traveled by Uber from their home in Greenford, west London, to Birmingham, arriving at 11:36 PM. This was the address where Jane and Rebecca, then aged 20 and 15, lived with their mother, Janice Adetoro, when she disappeared on 5 January 2010. Christina, then 16, was reportedly living with her father at the time.
