Overview
- The bodies of Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, were recovered from the sea near Madeira Drive on 13 May after an early‑morning rescue operation involving RNLI crews and air support.
- Sussex Police have reviewed hundreds of hours of CCTV, carried out local inquiries and appealed for anyone who saw the women between 10pm on 12 May and 5.30am on 13 May to come forward under Operation Ledmore.
- The force says specialist detectives remain on the case and that there is currently no evidence to suggest criminality or that anyone else was involved in the deaths.
- Relatives say the family were not aware the sisters were in Brighton, they have launched a GoFundMe to pay for three funerals, and they link the loss to the long‑running trauma of the sisters’ mother drowning 16 years earlier while rejecting suggestions the sisters deliberately entered the water.
- An inquest into their deaths will open at Brighton coroner’s court on 29 May and investigators warn social media speculation is unhelpful while local residents note the Madeira Drive area can have strong tides and sudden underwater shelves.