Video taking off 11x its usual first day

Three sisters at Brighton beach took their own lives, an inquest finds

Channel 4 News' short report on the coroner's conclusion reached far more people than its Shorts usually do, and its comment section filled with thoughts for the sisters' father.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 162,982 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (14,343).

Sisters who drowned at Brighton beach took their own lives, inquest finds

The inquest has ruled. Three sisters whose bodies were recovered from rough seas at Brighton beach in May took their own lives, the coroner concluded, and Channel 4 News carried the finding in a short report the same day.

The description sets out what is known. The women shared a home in West London and had traveled to the coast together by taxi. Their father said that losing all three of his daughters was a heartbreak beyond anything he could have imagined.

Ten hours after it went up, the report had passed 93,000 views, many times what a Short on this channel usually gathers in its first day. Its comment section moved even faster than the views, with hundreds of messages where a typical Short draws a few dozen. Much of it is addressed to the father. Many viewers also struggle with how three sisters could come to the same decision, and some turn to how hard mental health support can be to reach.

It was not the only Short from the newsroom to travel far that day. A report on Christa Pike, the Tennessee death row prisoner reported to be "up and walking" in hospital after a failed lethal injection, also drew a crowd well beyond the usual, though the Brighton report moved faster.

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