A pleasure cruiser did not cause the deaths of two young people off Bournemouth beach, a coroner has ruled. Joe Abbess, 17, and Sunnah Khan, 12, drowned while eight other people were treated by paramedics after they were thought to have been caught in a riptide next to the pier at the Dorset seaside resort on May 31 last year.

After two people were killed and eight injured after an incident off a beach in Bournemouth police initially thought the cause was a pleasure cruiser called Dorset Belle

Twelve-year-old Sunnah Khan and 17-year-old Joe Abbess both drowned off Bournemouth beach A coroner has ruled out the involvement of a pleasure cruiser in the deaths of two young people who drowned at a seaside resort.

A coroner has ruled out the involvement of a pleasure cruiser as "causative or contributory" to the deaths of two young people who drowned off Bournemouth beach.