A "devoted" elderly couple jumped to their deaths from a clifftop after one of them was diagnosed with cancer, an inquest heard.

David and Susan Jeffcock had sent a letter to their solicitor confirming they intended to end their lives before they were found on rocks at the base of East Cliff, in Whitby, North Yorkshire , on July 30 this year.

An inquest in Northallerton today (November 24) heard Mr Jeffcock, 80, and Mrs Jeffcock, 74, who spent most of their lives in Sheffield, had moved to the seaside town after they retired.

Mr Jeffcock's nephew, Kevin Shepherd, said his uncle had bone cancer and must have decided to kill himself because he was in pain, with Susan following him.

In a statement read at the inquest, Mr Shepherd said: "I was shocked to hear of their passing and in

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