Devoted David Jeffcock was fighting bone cancer and was exhausted by the constant pain and wife Susan was unable to face life without him View 3 Images David, 80, and Susan, 74, were 'completely devoted to each other' (Image: Facebook)

The family of an elderly couple who plunged 180ft to their deaths while holding hands were "completely devoted to each other", according to their grieving family. ‌

David, 80, and Susan Jeffcock, 74, set out on what they knew would be their final journey together by travelling from their flat, which overlooked the harbour in Whitby, and up the 199 steps and to the cliffs that oversee the town. They had left a message back at the flat for their solicitor before slipping through a fence. ‌

They momentarily stood at the top of East Cliff b

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