Inquests have been opened into the deaths of two people in their 80s who died at the Twenty Foot River near March.  

Barbara Nicholls, 81, and John Nicholls, 86, were both found in the water earlier this month.  

At the brief hearings to open their inquests, it was explained the body of Mrs Nicholls was found in the water on July 13.  

The body of Mr Nicholls was then found the following day on July 14.  

Elizabeth Gray, an area coroner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, opened both inquests at Lawrence Court, in Huntingdon.  

At the brief hearing held on yesterday (July 25), she said a cause of death is currently unascertained and pending results from histology and toxicology results.  

Ms Gray said: “I will adjourn both inquests for Mr and Mrs Nicholls and they will be listed at a date to be advised.”  

At the time, police said both deaths were not being treated as suspicious.

Officers were initially called to Chain Bridge, near March, on the morning of July 13 with reports of concern for the welfare of two people.