{"id":327552,"date":"2025-08-08T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327552\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:48:12","slug":"update-on-adelphi-hotel-investigations-as-decision-very-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327552\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Adelphi Hotel investigations as decision &#8216;very close&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool Council has launched multiple probes into the city centre hotel following tragic and worrying incidents<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Chloe-Haynes-2.jpg\" alt=\"Chloe Haynes, 21, who died at the Adelphi Hotel on September 10, 2023\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Chloe Haynes, 21, who died at the Adelphi Hotel on September 10, 2023<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">New updates have been issued regarding investigations into Liverpool&#8217;s <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/adelphi-hotel\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Adelphi Hotel.<\/a> The hotel, one of the city&#8217;s most famous and historic, is the subject of separate probes after tragic and worrying incidents <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/investigation-launched-after-girls-face-32205247\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"in recent timesLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">in recent times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The first of those incidents resulted in the death of a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/death-woman-crushed-adelphi-hotel-31780754\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;kind and caring&#8221; young woman called Chloe Haynes<\/a>, 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&#8217;s Environmental Health <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/death-woman-crushed-adelphi-hotel-31780754\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">department launched an investigation into the hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sources stated at the time that a criminal prosecution was a possibility. In a new update, the city council suggested this investigation is nearing its conclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson told the ECHO: &#8220;Liverpool City Council\u2019s Environmental Health department is very close to concluding an assessment on whether to prosecute the hotel\u2019s owners regarding the death of Chloe Haynes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">But that is not the only current investigation taking place into the Adelphi &#8211; which is owned and operated by Britannia Hotels. A probe was launched<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/investigation-launched-after-girls-face-32205247\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> after another incident earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">This incident saw a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/investigation-launched-after-girls-face-32205247\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">three-year-old girl called Valencia Verdin <\/a>injured and covered in blood when a cabinet fell on her and glass smashed on her head while staying at the hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Valencia&#8217;s mum, Danielle Kenny, told the ECHO she had decided to stay overnight at the Ranelagh Street hotel after visiting <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/liverpool-city-centre\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool city centre<\/a> from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/widnes\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Widnes<\/a> with her four children.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1_BHR_LEC_050825_ADELPHIJPEG.jpg\" alt=\"Danielle Kenny with her daughter Valencia\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Danielle Kenny with her daughter Valencia<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">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, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/girl-3-fears-nobody-play-32200560\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Danielle said it fell and landed on the young girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Danielle, 35, said: &#8220;She&#8217;s tried to open the door on the bottom half of the unit and it&#8217;s toppled over. She was trapped underneath it and the top half was glass, so her head has gone straight through the glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I&#8217;ve jumped up as soon as I&#8217;ve heard the bang and her scream. I&#8217;ve took the unit off her and her whole face and head was pouring with blood so I&#8217;ve quickly got a towel, put it over her head and I just ran out of the room with her and down to reception.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Valencia was rushed to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/alder-hey-childrens-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Alder Hey Children&#039;s HospitalLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Alder Hey Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a> where she received treatment for a 6cm cut and two 2cm cuts on her head before being discharged around 5pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Following the incident, Danielle reported the incident to Liverpool City Council and the local authority confirmed that its Environmental Health team had launched an investigation into what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">When the ECHO asked for an update into this investigation, a council spokesperson confirmed that the cabinet that fell on to Valencia has now been seized by the Environmental Health team, pending further investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The team also instructed the hotel to carry out a check of all of its rooms for similar furniture. This has now been completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The ECHO has continually approached Britannia for responses on both of these incidents and has not received any responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool Council has launched multiple probes into the city centre hotel following tragic and worrying incidentsChloe Haynes, 21,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[10967,748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-327552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-adelphi-hotel","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114992519864218524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}