The bodies of the three women, all from Greenford, west London, were recovered from the sea in the early hours of 13 May. An inquest at Woodvale coroner's court heard that in the days before their deaths, the sisters travelled by taxi to Birmingham on 11 May and were dropped off at Linton Walk, close to Brookvale Park Lake where their mother Janice Adetoro died. They returned to London at 1.28am on 12 May. There is no CCTV showing what they did during that time.
On the evening of 12 May they took a pre-booked taxi to Brighton, arriving near the seafront at 10.21pm. They were last seen alive on beach CCTV at 2.42am on 13 May. The bodies of Jane Adetoro and Christina Walters were located by a RNLI lifeboat crew; Rebecca Walters' body was recovered from the shoreline.
Schofield told the court: "In hours of darkness, they entered the sea at Brighton, they could not swim and sea conditions were adverse." A postmortem found all three had drowned with no evidence of drugs or alcohol and no signs of violence. The coroner concluded they died by suicide.
Their father, Joseph Jacobsen, who attended via video link, said in a statement: "There are no words that can adequately express the pain of losing a child. To lose all three of my precious daughters is a heartbreak beyond anything I could ever have imagined." He said he could not understand why their lives ended so suddenly.