Chloe Haynes was killed in the Britannia-owned hotel in 2022 before a three-year-old was injured there earlier this year
Chloe Haynes, 21, was found dead at The Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool city centre on September 10, 2022(Image: Liverpool Echo)
The ECHO has received an update three months after Liverpool City Council said a decision was imminent on the investigation into the death of Chloe Haynes at Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel. The hotel, one of the city’s most famous and historic, is the subject of separate probes after a number of tragic and worrying incidents in recent times.
The first of those incidents resulted in the death of “kind and caring” Chloe Haynes, who was crushed to death by a wardrobe in the city centre hotel in September 2022. Chloe, from North Wales, was just 21 when she died. After her death, Liverpool City Council’s Environmental Health department launched an investigation into the hotel.
Sources stated at the time that a criminal prosecution was a possibility.
In an update to the ECHO in September this year, a spokesperson for the council said the Environmental Health department was “very close” to concluding its assessment on whether to prosecute the hotel’s owners over the death.
However, this year saw a probe launched after another incident early this year.
This incident saw a three-year-old girl called Valencia Verdin injured and covered in blood when a cabinet fell on her and glass smashed on her head while she was staying at the hotel.
Valencia Verdin after a cabinet fell on her in the Adelphi Hotel (Image: Danielle Kelly)
Valencia’s mum, Danielle Kenny, told the ECHO she had decided to stay overnight at the Ranelagh Street hotel after visiting Liverpool city centre from Widnes with her four children.
She had booked a late check-out and was getting ready to bathe her nine-month-old son, Valentino, while her two daughters, Valentina, two, and Valencia, three, were in the room with her, along with her 10-year-old son Hugo. But when Valencia opened the door of a corner cabinet, Danielle said it fell and landed on the young girl.
The ECHO understands this incident has delayed the council’s decision as a further probe has now been launched by the Environmental Health department.
The council said previously the cabinet that fell on Valencia has been seized as part of its investigation. The team also instructed the hotel to carry out a check of all its rooms for similar furniture which was completed.
Liverpool’s Britannia Adelphi Hotel(Image: Andrew Teebay/Liverpool Echo)
Danielle, 35, said: “She’s tried to open the door on the bottom half of the unit and it’s toppled over. She was trapped underneath it and the top half was glass, so her head has gone straight through the glass.
“I’ve jumped up as soon as I’ve heard the bang and her scream. I’ve took the unit off her and her whole face and head was pouring with blood so I’ve quickly got a towel, put it over her head and I just ran out of the room with her and down to reception.”
Valencia was rushed to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital where she received treatment for a 6cm cut and two 2cm cuts on her head before being discharged around 5pm on Saturday.
The ECHO has continually approached Britannia for responses on both of these incidents and has not received any responses.