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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Esther Addley

A lake pilgrimage and a quiet car ride to the beach: last hours of sisters who took own lives in Brighton

The three sisters as young women sitting with their father.
Jane Adetoro (left), Christina Walters and Rebecca Walters (right) with their father, Joseph Jacobson. Photograph: PA

Jane Adetoro and her younger sisters, Christina and Rebecca Walters, were “the closest sisters and the best friends”, according to their family. 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 would do everything together.

When they died in May this year, it was no different. Early in the morning of 13 May, the sisters’ bodies were recovered from the sea in Brighton, hours after a taxi had dropped the three women at the beachfront.

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