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?!

Come on. If this part of the beach was busy in the middle of the night when they drowned there would have been loads of witnesses. The police can’t find one. Why are we saying there were loads of people around when clearly there weren’t?

I checked google maps as someone said where they were found was a quiet part of the beach. They were found by Brighton Marina which according to google is a 51 minute walk and 2.3 miles from the Pier. Maybe slightly off but can't imagine by much

It also says "Medical investigations are ongoing to finalise the cause of death."

I disagree. It's a matter of public interest when three people turn up dead on a beach. ESPECIALLY for residents of that town. It's my town. Also, your comparison is not apt, because in the Bulley case, the speculation was out of control when the police were still looking for a body, and it placed them under great strain. This is not that situation at all, not even close.

Online I saw someone's photos of them sea kayaking at Newhaven. I could not believe how far out they were. They must have been at least a mile off-shore. In a flat, tiny kayak! Utter madness. And it's a busy shipping lane, too!

I agree with this. The police obviously dont want people spreading false rumours or information but to merely talk about the facts of the case in the news is not wrong or immoral.

Nicola Bulley's case was completely different because she was missing, not found immediately deceased. That poor village had idiotic tiktokers turning up and filming videos outside residents' houses - people were literally visiting the place where she drowned as if it was a tourist attraction. It was absolutely gross.

This case has not had even close to the publicity of NB. Additionally, if this happens where you live, you would absolutely want to know what had happened as it might have safety implications for yourself or your own family. Also, if you set up a gofundme then you are going to have to expect people will talk about the case- publicity has both a positive and a negative side to it.

It’s not. It’s about 15 mins depending on where in the town you’d been. Nowhere near 50 minutes!!

It takes you 15 minutes to walk over 2 miles?!

It really isn’t. It’s pushing 2 miles from the pier, and that’s not the town centre.
If you start from Churchill Square and that part of town it’s about 2 miles. I can walk one mile in 20 minutes and that’s when I get a move on in sensible shoes. No way could you walk from the town centre to nearly the marina in 15 minutes.

Sorry, not the marina, no. It’s a fair way up the hill. To the pier I think though

But they were found at the marina.... which is about a 50 minute walk/2 miles from the pier/city centre...

Yes I’ve just realised x

Maybe they weren’t working due to mental health problems or autistic spectrum disorder? Maybe the family don’t want to have that discussed by all and sundry, as if it defined them?

It’s like there’s a media blackout on this. Not one story from a friend / former school friend / peer / colleague / ex-partner about how they feel about their loss. Absolutely nothing.

Yes but why not just say unemployed or not working. Why have they said that their occupation is unknown - that implies that their family do not know their day to day lives - which is fine but just not in keeping with the family's comments so far. They have also said they have no idea why they had travelled to Brighton and were there at that time. The inquest is giving the impression that the family knows as little as we do

That is exactly what it’s like. And it’s that that is causing speculative threads like this. People instinctively want to know about news stories, and if information isn’t provided then they will fill the vacuum with questions and gossip.

If the story was ‘they worked in a supermarket, an accountancy firm and a school, here are some tributes from work friends and former school/university friends’ then there wouldn’t be this much interest.

I’m still weirded out by the missing or not missing underage sister who was or wasn’t with her mum, who seemingly made or didn’t make her way to the US as a 15 year old, somehow got a job or got into school, and is still there apparently. But the parents forgot to tell the police as they have her listed as missing. And the mum is back in the UK somehow. No journalists have been able to add anything to the weirdness but maybe that’s because of the ongoing police investigation? One day there will be the missing information I’m sure.

DH and his best friend used to catch trains to places, they had never been to before, and go drinking. They went to Brighton once. His friend saw the sea, stripped off to his underwear and ran into the sea, saying he hadn’t seen the sea in years. They didn’t know the first thing about the beach at Brighton; and it wouldn’t have occurred to them, to tell anyone where they were going. Had they both gone into the sea and got into trouble, no one would know why!

It seems clear they were isolated- there are no friends/ colleagues neighbours to say anything about them

I don't think there's a media blackout. I suspect they didn't have contact with anyone outside of their little isolated unit. Three able bodied adult women could be fairly self sufficient.

I'm not saying that this is the case but it would be easy to believe that these 3 women didn't even exist.

There were a couple of students in my year at university that I rarely saw. I knew they were still studying alongside the rest of us though because their work was exhibited in our end of year show and I occasionally saw them lining up to submit end of unit essays. Perhaps the student sister was like this and didn't make friends while at uni at all.

They probably went to school, at least one of them was a graduate and Jane had worked as an accountant. It is very strange that not one person outside the family has talked about them.

If this had happened but the bodies had been swept out to sea and not recovered, there would be people saying they didn’t exist.

I have no idea about tides, currents etc but I know sometimes bodies aren’t found.

It’s not about being “discussed by all and sundry” it’s an inquest where factual information is given! You can’t just make shit up at a public inquest. People’s occupations are listed on their death certificates- it’s not information so private that no one is allowed to know. If they weren’t able to work then they would have said unable to work due to disability. It’s not about judgements it’s about facts.

Does occupation have to be confirmed for the purpose of issuing a death certificate? So would the police have to establish via (bank statements? Or DWP or HMRC?) employment status prior to the coroner issuing a cause of death?

Does occupation have to be confirmed for the purpose of issuing a death certificate

No. Identity, date and place of death, cause of death are the necessary information. And some or all of those might not be possible to establish in some circumstances, so would have to be left as unknown.