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Three sisters who died in Brighton sea drowning tragedy made emotional trip just days before
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Three sisters who died in Brighton sea drowning tragedy made emotional trip just days before Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, made a visit to the spot where their mother was found just days before their mysterious deaths, a family member said Three sisters who drowned at Brighton beach made an emotional trip together just two days before they died, their cousin has said. Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, were pulled from the...
Three sisters who died in Brighton sea drowning tragedy made emotional trip just days before
Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, made a visit to the spot where their mother was found just days before their mysterious deaths, a family member said
Three sisters who drowned at Brighton beach made an emotional trip together just two days before they died, their cousin has said.
Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, were pulled from the sea off the busy seaside town on May 13. They were all pronounced dead at the scene in what police described as a "tragic incident".
Ahead of an inquest into their deaths set to take place next month, their cousin Natalie Walters-Daniel, 33, told how in the days leading up to the tragedy, the trio made a visit to the lake where their mother also drowned 16 years earlier.
Janice Adetoro went missing in December 2009, and was found dead at Brookvale Lake near the family home in Birmingham in 2010. She was aged 43. She had been living with mental health issues for at least two years prior to her disappearance.
Natalie said she believed there was a "deeper meaning" to the sisters' visit to the spot shortly before their own deaths - and explained that the loss of their mother when they were in their teens and early 20s had affected them deeply.
She told the Sunday Times: "To lose their mum at the ages that they were, it was the crucial stages of growing up and becoming young women. The years where a mother's presence and guidance and reassurance and love should be, they didn't receive that. And for them to come to Birmingham, to take that moment that they did within the lake and also to see their mother, I think that there is definitely a connection there."
In the years after their mum died, Jane, Christina, and Rebecca moved to West London to live with their father, building careers in accounting and human resources. The younger two sisters adopted their mother's maiden name.
They went on to share a flat in Greenford, where neighbours described them as intensely private, minimising social contact to weekly food deliveries and avoiding their nearby grandmother, despite her living only a few doors down.
Their grandmother, who is in her 90s, attended a balloon release held by relatives at Brookvale Lake this summer, in memory of the sisters and their mother. A police investigation into Jane, Christina, and Rebecca's deaths has closed, and ruled out any criminal or third-party involvement.
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