Posted on 09/30/2022 7:17:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Chloe Haynes died after a wardrobe fell on her at the Adelphi Hotel
The three men who frantically tried to save the life a woman who was crushed by a wardrobe in a city centre hotel found themselves in custody. Chloe Haynes, 21, was found in her room at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool by her friend on September 10.
She was sharing a room at the hotel with her colleague, after travelling from Pwllheli, Wales, for a night out. Her friend and two other hotel guests, who did not know Chloe, were arrested on suspicion of murder by Merseyside Police but were later released with no further action taken.
As reported in the ECHO, police are treating the death as "accidental", but the force is investigating the circumstances alongside Liverpool City Council's Environmental Health department. According to her heartbroken mum, Nicola Williams, by midnight Chloe was drunk and her friend escorted her back to the hotel room to sleep it off before heading back out.
At some point during the early hours, Chloe is believed to have opened the door of the wardrobe, possibly mistaking it for the toilet door or the exit, at which point the heavy piece of furniture collapsed onto her.
The friend staying with Chloe returned and found her body under the wardrobe, and rushed out of the room to scream for help. Miss Williams said: "The other two men came over from different rooms and helped lift the wardrobe off her.
"When the police came they had to be taken away for questioning. It did sting when we read they had been arrested, they had tried to help her."
Miss Williams, 49, said she is determined to find "every detail" of how the "petite and beautiful" daughter, whom she nicknamed "birdy", lost her life in such a tragic way. She said: "I can't believe my little girl is not coming home because she opened the wrong door."
Chloe, who had a twin brother and three other siblings, travelled to Liverpool from Hafan y Mor Haven Holiday Park in Pwllheli, North Wales, where she worked. Miss Williams, from Wrexham, told the ECHO: "Chloe left Pwllheli around 7.40pm and they went to the Adelphi, there was some sort of engagement party or something. By midnight, she had been drinking shots and so on and she was a bit drunk, so her friend has taken her back to the hotel to sleep it off, and then he's gone back out.
"It seems she has got up out of the bed confused, not knowing where she is, and she's opened the door of the wardrobe maybe thinking it is the toilet or the door to go back out of the room. It was a big, old, heavy wardrobe and it's fallen on her and crushed her windpipe."
Speaking about her loss, Miss Williams said: "She loved animals, she had a little dog called Archie she was obsessed with. There are so many photos of them together.
"My little nickname for her was birdy. She was so petite and little, and when she ate she was like a little bird. She was quiet, she was somebody who didn't speak unless it needed saying.
"But in the last 12 months she was coming out of her shell, she was gaining her confidence and she had a wide circle of friends. She was kind and caring and she seemed to connect with gay men, and that was how she met the friend she went to Liverpool with."
Miss Williams said her daughter was enjoying her job waitressing in the holiday park, which also provided her accommodation as well, and was "living her best life".
She said: "She was planning to do her driving lessons and she had saved up a little bit of money for that, and she wanted to go abroad on holiday with her friends. She was just doing all the things that any 21-year-old would do.
"She was beautiful, but she had struggled with confidence about herself so she didn't really know how beautiful she was and that made her beautiful on the inside as well. She was very kind."
Miss Williams says she is determined to find out how the incident happened.
She said: "I need to know, as a mum I need to know every detail. I don't know how long she was under there before she died, and we have been told somebody heard a noise from the room around 3am but didn't report it.
"I just cannot believe my daughter is never coming home because of a wardrobe, for the sake of maybe two screws in a wall. Every year I take a picture of all my children on the couch in their Christmas outfits, and now there will be someone missing."
A spokesman for Liverpool Council said: "We can confirm that our Environmental Health department is working with Merseyside Police on an ongoing investigation into the events surrounding a death at the Adelphi Hotel."
Britannia Hotels, which operates the Adelphi, has been contacted for comment
I’m pretty sure she was from Cetpgussidlwrunnmckqwh, a farming community just west of Galrouchmmqiarjkf.
Yep - any bets the hotel is working hard to blame the men so it doesn’t get sued?
Too many vowels!
There is a joke about how the Welsh and the southern Africans need to combine their names to give a proper balance to the vowels and consonants.
So she was 21 at death and started working at McDonald’s 14 years ago, according to that Facebook page.
Saw am episode of Midsomers Murder where a guy died of a wardrobe felling on him right in front of Inspector Barnaby and his assistant. The murderer hired a carpenter to detach the bolts holding it in place.
Indeed, some of the guys faked being gay for the purpose of attracting the attention of these same airheads. And this was in a conservative school district which voted for Trump by over 70%.
It's a heavy piece of furniture that can be top heavy. In the US a hotel would have a closet not a wardrobe. Also in the US trial lawyers would be lining up to sue the hotel. A big heavy piece of furniture like that should be attached to a wall to prevent it from falling. The management of the hotel ought to be held accountable. It's a foreseeable problem.
It's a lot harder to sue in the UK than it is in the US. In the US, this would be a slam dunk case.
I can see how this could happen...
Happened to me as a kid, when I was about 7, or 8. Big CRT TV on top of a cabinet (~4’ tall) where our toys, games and puzzles were kept. I opened the doors to the cabinet and fell back as I sat down, holding the doors pulling the cabinet with me. Cabinet tilted forward, fell on top of me and the heavy CRT TV slid off, dropping onto my head, splitting open a huge laceration. Step monster was at the store. White carpet, open bleeding head wound, looked like Carrie from the prom scene, blood everywhere as I went back and forth to the bathroom.
Mommy Dearest’s big concern when she returned to what looked like a crime scene?
“LOOK at what you’ve BLEEPING done to my carpet!”
No, alcohol wasn’t involved THAT time =o)
Poor design. My stepmother has a beautiful antique wardrobe that does the same thing. My wife discovered this "feature" when she emptied the wardrobe to clean.
Even with her recent loss, her mum instinctively knows to signal that her daughter was woke.
I viewed it differently. She came from a small, probably old-school community, and was caught out by the newspaper report having stayed overnight in a hotel with a man. The mom probably pointed out he was gay in a sad attempt to preserve her daughter's "honor." Or to point up that the gay man left her there, drunk, and did not act protectively because they were not a couple.
For those who agree that wardrobes are dangerous, and especially you crass individuals who spoke ill of the dead because she pulled a wardrobe down on top of herself, this is a known danger in the U.S. and many people, especially children, have died or been injured by such accidents. Pulling downward for any reason on the open door of an unsecured wardrobe could tip it over, especially if it was top-heavy with a suitcase on the top shelf. And if you've ever owned an old house where floors begin to sag towards the center of the room, even a refrigerator could tip over if the door is pulled too hard.
When opening an IKEA flat pack, you will see that every bookshelf or chest of drawers comes packed with L-brackets, screws, drywall anchors and instructions for attaching the piece to the wall—and large warnings in the instruction sheet. Rather less securely, people can shim up the front edge of an older piece with wood strips or felt pads to tilt it slightly back towards the wall.
We had broken-hearted family friends whose toddler climbed into one of the the bottom drawers in a chest of drawers. Even as a lightweight three-year-old, she pulled the entire thing down on herself, becoming injured for life. She is now an adult—still brain damaged, has difficulty speaking, walks with a prounounced limp and is in a group home—a daughter of privilege who could have done so much, accidentally wasted.
I do not know what to make of this but the girl in the photo does not resemble the girl in real life.
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