Cliff-plunge OAPs 'couldn't live without each other'

Couple both died of 'multi-trauma'

- BY LUCY THORNTON

A DEVOTED elderly couple who plunged from a cliff edge after being seen holding hands died of “multi-trauma”, a coroner said.

David Jeffcock, 80, and his wife Susan, 74, were found on July 30.

Yesterday, Jonathan Heath, senior coroner for York and North Yorkshire, sitting at Northallerton, formally opened their inquests in a brief hearing.

He told how David and Susan both lived in Whitby and were discovered near the beauty spot of Whitby Abbey.