A 15-year-old girl was swept out to sea ‘in the blink of an eye’ by a giant wave as she posed for photos before her mother and a passer-by died trying to save her, an inquest heard today.
Keen TikToker Grace Keeling was pulled into the freezing water in terrible January conditions prompting her mother Sarah, 45, to follow her in a desperate bid to save her life.
Passerby Mark Ratcliffe, 67, also entered the water at Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, in ‘an utterly selfless act of bravery’ with coroner Lorraine Harris saying the grandfather was ‘a hero.’
However all three tragically
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