Equal to anything Gothic novel writer Bram Stoker could have written, an elderly couple have jumped to their deaths at the bottom of cliffs close to Whitby Abbey. though for this tragic couple unlike Dracula there is no return from death. Plagued with health issues, David Jeffcock, 80, placed his jacket weighted down with a brick, before jumping the 37 metres to his death, his wife Susan, 74, hesitating a little before following him.
A man walking his dog at the scene noticed something unusual about the pair, and peered over the cliff edge, whereupon he witnessed the dead bodies. Emergency services were called at 7:16pm on 30 July last year, the bodies airlifted to hospital, where they were pronounced dead on arrival, the postmortem confirming multiple traumatic injures.
The couple, who were originally from Sheffield, were childless. They leave behind a nephew, Kevin Shepherd.
https://youtu.be/IHAyNVQGxlgIn addition there were two further suicides nearby within a matter of days: Joan Blanchon, 69, and Susan Fawcett, 58.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/beloved-grandmothers-who-fell-whitby-35851755
