A woman drowned after getting into difficulty while spending the day at a Welsh beach with her grandchildren, an inquest heard. Irene Cook, 75, of Bryn Twr in Abergele, died on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, at the high dependency unit in Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.
The mother-of-two and grandmother-of-four had been swimming off Rhosneigr beach on Anglesey with her family at around 12:50 pm on August 25, 2021, when she was seen to get into difficulty. The inquest in to her death was held in Caernarfon on April 27.
It heard how Mrs Cook, a retired office manager, was swimming towards a sandbank known as Crab Island, where her grandchildren were playing when the incident occurred. Her daughter-in-law, Suzanne Johnston, gave evidence during the hearing and said that she witnessed Mrs Cook wading and then swimming towards the sandbank when suddenly she "began looking as though she was not in control of her body", reports North Wales Live.
