Two deaths by suspected drowning on same day

Friday 26 August 2016

Joy Gladys Godfray and Michael Alan Bowyer both died on the same day last Saturday in sea tragedies.

Deputy Viscount Advocate Mark Harris today presided over the inquests and released both bodies for funeral arrangements to be made.

Police Officer Glenn Cleave said there were on-going investigations into both deaths but described them as “not suspicious.” 

Ms Godfray, single and unemployed, who would have been 32 the day after she died, was pronounced dead at 22:16 on Saturday at hospital after her body was rescued near Green Island.  

Mr Bowyer, born in March 1951, married and having recently retired, was recovered from the scene near La Collette marina and was pronounced dead by a paramedic at 10:17.

Advocate Harris described both deaths by "suspected drowning."