Overview

• On July 30 a passerby spotted a man and woman in their 40s on the rocks beneath Whitby Abbey and the Coastguard airlifted their bodies at 8.24pm.
• Witness Brian Vickers said the couple smiled at walkers before holding hands and jumping in what police are treating as a possible suicide pact.
• At 12.53pm on July 31 a woman in her 60s was recovered from below the same cliffs in a separate fall that authorities say is not linked.
• North Yorkshire Police have begun tracing the couple’s next of kin and have informed the woman’s family while preparing coroner files for all three deaths.
• Multiple emergency services—including RNLI, mountain rescue and ambulance crews—coordinated cliffside recoveries amid fast-rising tides with no signs of foul play.