Shoreham beach death tributes paid to family by Ealing school

The family are believed have travelled to Shoreham from London on the same day of the incident, which is believed to be a tragic accident with no third-party involvement, police said.

Speaking on BBC Radio Sussex, Deputy Chief Constable Paul Court called the incident “utterly, utterly tragic”, and praised the work of Sussex Police officers and other emergency services, adding that the response was “really professionally managed”.

Asked about two other children, who a spokesperson for the Palestinian Forum in Britain said were on the shore at the time of the incident, Court said: “We shouldn’t forget that as part of that investigation we have to break the bad news to those families, and that is utterly traumatic for those families to receive that news, and for those who have to break it to them.”

Those children are now being looked after by an uncle, according to the Palestinian Forum in Britain.