Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, were found dead off Black Rock beach near Brighton Marina last week and were formally identified earlier this week
Floral tributes left to three women found dead on Wednesday morning on Brighton Beach in East Sussex(Image: Adam Gerrard / Daily Mirror)
The family of three sisters discovered dead off Brighton beach have described them as reserved women who abstained from alcohol and nightlife.
Relatives of Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, said the women were inseparable after they were formally identified earlier this week.
The revelation follows a surge of conspiracy theories that emerged after the family used artificial intelligence to generate a single photograph of the sisters from older images, as they didn’t possess a recent picture of all three together.
Speaking to The Times, family members said they were still attempting to comprehend why the sisters had made the journey to Brighton that morning. “We’ve got to speak out in order to clarify this whole situation,” their aunt, Ajike Adetoro said. “These girls would not drink alcohol or smoke. They never went clubbing. They didn’t even have social media. They were their father’s world.”
She added: “We are not speculating, but the girls were totally happy in the weeks and months before it happened and it was totally unexpected.”
She described the women as “the closest sisters and best friends who did everything together”, saying: “They were happy girls. They’d moved out of their dad’s house two years ago but would message at least twice a day.”, reports the Daily Star.
The three sisters were discovered dead off Black Rock beach near Brighton Marina on Wednesday last week. Police traced a key fob found with them to their flat in Uxbridge. Sussex Police said they did not have evidence to suggest third-party involvement or criminality.
Speaking about the distress caused by online speculation following the release of the AI-generated image, their aunt clarified: “We just wanted AI to put it together and make it look good, all three of them together,” she said. “I’ve just had to stop looking. The most disturbing part for us is the conspiracies. We’ve heard people jump to conclusions that it was a racist attack, a murder, that they were clubbing … the most absurd messages. It is all wrong.”
Family members described Jane Adetoro, who worked as an accountant, as “extremely intelligent” and “a bit more serious because she had already taken on the role of mother to the other sisters”.
Christina Walters, a recent Brunel University graduate, had worked tirelessly to overcome the trauma of losing her mother, relatives recalled. Rebecca Walters was fondly remembered as “the baby who was very mischievous” and “the lively one who was always cracking jokes”.
Police enquiries into the circumstances surrounding how Jane, Christina and Rebecca ended up in the water continue.
