Siblings, Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, were described as ‘close knit and quiet’ and had not been drinking or clubbing before they died, family say
The family of three sisters found dead off Brighton beach have said they were quiet women who didn’t drink or go clubbing. 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.
It comes after a wave of conspiracy theories emerged following the tragedy after the family used artificial intelligence to create a single image of the sisters from old photographs because they did not have a recent picture of all three together.
In an interview with The Times, family said they were still trying to understand why the sisters had travelled 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 said: “We are not speculating, but the girls were totally happy in the weeks and months before it happened and it was totally unexpected.”
She said the women were “the closest sisters and best friends who did everything together”, adding: “They were happy girls. They’d moved out of their dad’s house two years ago but would message at least twice a day.”
The three sisters were found 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.
Their aunt said the family had been distressed by speculation after the release of the AI image and explained: “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.”
Jane Adetoro worked as an accountant and was described by relatives as “extremely intelligent” and “a bit more serious because she had already taken on the role of mother to the other sisters”.
Christina Walters had recently graduated from Brunel University and, relatives said, had worked hard to move on from the trauma of losing her mother. Rebecca Walters was remembered as “the baby who was very mischievous” and “the lively one who was always cracking jokes”.
An investigation into how Jane, Christina and Rebecca came to be in the water remains ongoing.