The family of a ‘kind and caring’ woman found crushed to death by a hotel room wardrobe are still without answers three years on.
Chloe Haynes, 21, was found trapped under the furniture at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool in September 2022.
Her mum Nicola Williams said at the time she was determined to find out how her daughter died so unexpectedly.
Three men were arrested on suspicion of murder, but police later ruled her death an accident.
The town hall’s environmental health department launched its own investigation months later, insisting the prospect of criminal charges was still on the table.
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But that inquiry still hasn’t finished, the Liverpool Echo reports.
It comes after a pre-inquest review into Chloe’s death due to take place this week was delayed.
Chloe had travelled to the city from the Haven Holiday Park in North Wales where she worked.
The co-worker she was sharing a room with for the night out raised the alarm after finding her body.
Her mum Nicola told the Echo at the time: ‘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.’
She said Chloe’s roommate shouted to two other men from neighbouring rooms to help lift the wardrobe off her, but she couldn’t be saved.
Nicola added: ‘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.’
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