Parents of a Shoreham crash victim came home from their son’s grave to find their daughter dead | British news

The parents of a victim of the Shoreham Airshow disaster returned home after visiting their son’s grave to find their daughter dead, an inquest has heard.

Caroline and Bob Schilt left their daughter Louise behind when they went to visit their son Jacob’s grave in Clayton, West Sussex, but when they returned home they found her lifeless body.

Bob, 70, performed CPR on his daughter in a desperate bid to save her life – and now he and his wife Caroline, 64, have shared their family’s tragedy as an inquest into Louise’s death begins today.

Their son Jacob, 23, was one of 11 people killed at the 2015 Shoreham Airshow when pilot Andy Hill’s Hawker Hunter crashed into the nearby A27 while attempting a loop maneuver.

The plane exploded in a fireball and Jacob, a University of Portsmouth graduate on his way to play football, was killed in the crash.

Eight years later, in April 2023, his 34-year-old sister Louise died at home, with mother Caroline describing their loss as ‘extremely cruel’.

In a public tribute to her daughter, Caroline said: ‘Our dear daughter Louise passed away suddenly at home yesterday, cruel enough to lose Jacob in the plane crash in Shoreham, but now to be robbed of our other child seems cruel out there – the sweetest, nicest girl we will always love you.’

A keen rider, Louise was fit and active until she began suffering from a mystery illness in December 2021. It was initially thought she might have cancer, but she was later diagnosed with an enlarged heart.

She died just two hours after being discharged from hospital, where fluid was drained from her chest for the third time, MailOnline reports.

Louise was discharged half an hour after the procedure, despite Caroline saying she was ‘clearly not doing well’, adding that her daughter struggled to get out of the car.

Bob and Caroline say their daughter’s health deteriorated after her second coronavirus jab, but they never found out what caused Louise’s death, with Bob saying: ‘They never did an investigation to find out.’

The inquest at West Sussex Coroner’s Court in Horsham is expected to last one day.

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