The funeral of a 'kind and caring' woman who was crushed to death by a falling wardrobe at a hotel in a tragic accident will be held on Monday.
Family and friends of 21-year-old Chloe Haynes will gather to honour and celebrate her young life. Chloe was found dead in her room at the Britannia-run Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool by her friend in the early hours of September 10.
Her mum, 49-year-old Nicola Williams, said she believes her daughter tried to open the door of the heavy piece of furniture in the early hours, possibly mistaking it for the bathroom or the exit.
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, for a night out. She was sharing a room at the city centre hotel with her colleague, who found her body and raised the alarm, reports the Liverpool Echo.
A funeral notice has been published revealing that Chloe will be laid to rest at Pentrebychan Crematorium, on the outskirts of Wrexham, at 10.30am on Monday. A notice published by Roberts Bros Funeral Directors reads: "Cherished daughter, sister, granddaughter and friend. She is much loved and will always be remembered."
Her mum Ms 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."
Ms Williams said Chloe's friend returned to the room in the early hours of the morning and was confronted with the horrific scene. She said he shouted to get help and two men from other rooms came to help lift the wardrobe off Chloe, but it was too late to save her life.
It was those three men who were initially questioned over Chloe's death by police, before being released with no further action taken when the circumstances became clear. Merseyside Police have confirmed her death is being treated as "accidental".
Speaking about her loss, Ms 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."
Ms 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."
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