An inquest has opened into the deaths of three sisters who died in the sea off Brighton beach in May.Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, all from Greenford, London, were found in the water and subsequently died.

The senior coroner at Brighton & Hove Coroner's Court heard that police are conducting an investigation to determine how the sisters came to be at the water’s edge, with no third-party involvement initially suspected.

CCTV footage has been reviewed and multiple witnesses have been interviewed as investigators pursue several lines of inquiry to understand who the women were and why they were at the beach that morning.

The bodies were recovered by emergency services, with Adetoro and Walters both brought ashore by RNLI personnel and pronounced dead at the scene or on arrival at the lifeboat station.The sisters’ father attended the hearing remotely and received condolences from the coroner.The inquest aims to provide clarity and to curb social media speculation while the full cause of death remains to be established.The inquest is scheduled to continue in October.