The three sisters who died in the sea in Brighton

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This is sooo dodgy. There’s no recent photos of them, no one knows why they were there.
They were fully clothed. Handbags on the beach.
Their mum was found dead in a lake 16 yrs ago in Birmingham.
Police have reviewed 100’s of hours og cctv footage and nothing.
What the actual fuck?!

If one of them recently graduated I would have expected someone somewhere to say ‘she was in my class’ surely?

I was reading about June and Jennifer Gibbons. Lots of differences, and yet the same kind of oddness.

Even if the deaths were completely understandable, their lives seem reclusive somewhat.

Were they in contact with their dad still?

@bluelightsky It's that the usual social markers of adult life seem completely absent from their public story. No friends have commented, no partners, no work colleagues, no jobs, no-one from their church has given tributes etc

Yes, that’s the bit I don’t understand. Where are the church goers, where are the ex colleagues? It’s like they were there years ago (we have the photo) then they went into a vacuum and just popped up last week.

School friends? Three sisters, lots of people must have done ordinary things with them.

Were they in contact with their dad still?

Yes - according to their aunt he was supporting them financially and emotionally.

Oh that’s good. Do you know where? Brighton?

Yes it’s exactly this. People suggesting three people ending their lives at the same time is unusual but it’s also highly unusual for three siblings to get to their mid 30s and not one of them to have a job, a friend, a partner, or a social life of any kind.

I am not suggesting their choices were “wrong” at all, people can live as they choose, but it is unusual in the extreme. Especially considering their father, step mother, aunt and 4th sister all seem to have friends, social lives and jobs on social media.

Where they were being supported? Presumably at home in Uxbridge. The sisters all lived together.

But why not say unemployed vs unknown? Again just one of the oddities of this case.

Where they were found was also a 50 minute walk from the pier/city centre so imo that also makes the "drunk after a night out" theory even less plausible.

Yes. Unemployed isn’t a judgemental term, it’s factual when describing someone’s employment status if they don’t have a job.

I wonder if ‘unemployed’ means ‘and actively looking for a job’? Eg someone retired might still be looking for a part time job, but they would be described as ‘a pensioner’. So if they were financially supported by their dad and everyone was happy with that and they weren’t looking for jobs?

That wouldn’t be “unknown” then. It would be known - unknown implies they don’t know anything about it

Shouting for help is really hard if you fall into cold water as the cold contracts your chest - worse if you've had a cold wave over your head.

My dd did the Swedish winter lake safety course at school (called Isvak) where the final stage is to simulate rescuing yourself if you fall through the ice into a freezing lake - so you have to
-jump through a hole cut in the ice - wearing clothes (roped up)
-shout loudly for help
-drag yourself out of the lake onto the ice using icepicks (isdubbar)

I asked dd which the hardest part was and she said shouting for help - it was really painful as she thought her chest was being crushed and it was hard to make any sound.

I think unemployed just means unemployed, it doesn't give a reason why. "Jobseeker" could more be used if they were job hunting but unemployed would still be accurate. Similarly if they were stay at home mums they would still not be in paid employment but probably referred to as SAHMs or housewives.

Yes, or descriptors like "home maker", "student", "not in employment", "unable to work due to disability or illness" etc - not simply saying "we dont know".

Thats really strange.

The body of a man has been found on the beach today in Rottingdean which isn't that far away (from where the three sisters were found). It's very sad. Four people dying in such a short time in the same area is utterly tragic.

I think we are talking about her sisters shouting for help - on this apparently busy at 3am beach.

Unless they all happened to fall in at the same time.

Completely agree! To say unknown is odd.

I think I have read their dad supported them so maybe they didn't work but just so strange to explicitly say unknown when it is not necessarily needed for the inquest

The Times article that somebody posted said they moved to London 2 years ago from their father's house.

Why do people write ‘apparently’.

walk around Brighton at 3am and see how many people are around. There are loads

Not on a Wednesday and not in that particular part of the seafront where they went.

Not where the women were found, assuming that’s where they went into the sea.

From the inquest: An inquest into the deaths of three sisters from London whose bodies were found in the sea off Brighton beach has heard the cause of their deaths remains “unascertained”. their post mortems cannot ascertain their cause of death 😳

I’m sure where they were wasn’t a 50 minute walk from the city centre etc, I was there in January and it’s certainly not a 50 minute walk.

Not yet. The post mortem examinations are ongoing.

It says that medical examinations are ongoing.
"Coroner's officer Victoria Foreman said: 'Medical examinations are ongoing to finalise the cause of death, but at this stage police are satisfied that there was no third party involvement.'
Coroner Penelope Schofield said she hoped information provided at the inquest opening would bring an end to social media speculation over the cause of the deaths."
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15858173/inquest-sisters-drowned-sea-Brighton.html

Usually this means that full toxicology and blood testing results haven't come back yet

Oh it is. I used to live fairly close to where they were found, but slightly closer to the town centre. I used to walk to work in the centre every day and it would take around 40 minutes. To go to where they were found would take about 15 minutes.