A British mum and her two children who died in the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka were unlawfully killed, a coroner today ruled.
Anita Nicholson, 42, her 14-year-old Alexander Nicholson and Annabel Nicholson, 11, died instantly when an IED was detonated in the restaurant of the Shangri-la Hotel in Colombo where they were staying on April 21 this year.
IT director Lorraine Campbell, 55, and married couple William Harrop, a retired firefighter, and doctor Sally Bradley also died in a blast in the restaurant of the Cinnamon Grand Hotel.
But today senior coroner for Essex, Caroline-Beasley-Murray, recorded that all six were unlawfully killed.
The inquests were concluded today in Chelmsford, Essex.
More than 350 people died in the atrocities.
Anita, who was a lawyer, was with her family when two suicide bombers struck at the Shangri-La hotel.
Her husband and father Ben Nicholson, 43, survived the attack and launched a desperate search for his family before being told they were dead.
The family was based in Singapore and was on holiday in Sri Lanka.
Mrs Nicholson worked for mining and metals company Anglo American, while Mr Nicholson is a partner with law firm Kennedys.
