{"id":366098,"date":"2026-01-12T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366098\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:32:08","slug":"coroners-inquest-opens-into-withernsea-sea-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366098\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner&#8217;s inquest opens into Withernsea sea deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An inquest has opened into the deaths of two people who died after being swept away by the sea in Withernsea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Ratcliffe, 67, entered the water in an attempt to try to save Sarah Keeling, 45, and her daughter Grace Keeling, 15, on 2 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ratcliffe, who was pulled unconscious from the water during the initial search, died at the scene. Sarah&#8217;s body was found later that evening, with police still searching for Grace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A hearing at Hull Coroner&#8217;s Court was opened and adjourned by Lorraine Harris, Area Coroner for Hull and East Yorkshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inquest has opened into the deaths of two people who died after being swept away by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-366098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}