A dad who was arrested for murder after trying to save a woman's life says she is always in his thoughts and he "keeps seeing her face a lot" in his dreams. Chloe Haynes, 21, from Pwllheli, Wales, had been staying at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool city centre on September 10 after travelling with friends for a night out.
She was found dead in the hotel room after being crushed by a wardrobe. Mum Nicola Williams believes Chloe may have mistaken the wardrobe door for the bathroom door causing the heavy furniture to fall on her.
Chloe's friends raised the alarm when they returned to the room and witnessed the tragic scene. They began screaming for help as guests rushed to their aid.
One guest, Wayne Kenny, 46, who was staying down the hall when he heard the calls tried to save Chloe's life. Under instruction from 999 operators, he performed CPR until emergency services arrived.
Wayne was shocked when he was arrested for murder just minutes after cops showed up. The dad spent 10 hours locked in a cell.
Wayne has revealed that despite being a stranger to Chloe, he keeps replaying the incident over and over again in his sleep. While he says that he has also been let go from agency work, he doesn't regret trying to help Chloe, adding that his thoughts are with her family.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, he said: "I keep seeing her face a lot. In my dreams she comes alive and I get her back and she comes back. I keep having the same dream.
“I was staying at the Adelphi and I got up in the morning and at first I heard the commotion outside the door and heard some guy say 'she's not breathing' and I thought 'did I hear that right then?'. So I got dressed as I was going to go out with my boys.
"I had a day out planned for me and the two boys. I came out of the room and as I walked past the door was open."
Wayne says that another man had attempted to administer CPR but he asked if he could take over as he believed that his experience made him better placed to help.
He continued: "I have had some experience, but not fully medically trained obviously.
"I went in and I tried to give Chloe CPR. I think what I am struggling with is the fact I have done that not knowing she had been dead for hours. I had no idea."
Emergency service staff initially thanked him for his efforts when they arrived on the scene, telling the dad to return to his room.
That was, Wayne said, until had a knock on the door from police, adding: "The police knocked and said 'you are the guy that was in the room a minute ago?' I said yes, absolutely and he said 'right you're under arrest' and I said for what? And he said 'for murder.'
"I said 'are you serious?' and he said 'yes, absolutely'."
Following this, the 46-year-old was taken to custody where he had his clothes taken off him, was put in a paper suit in a "freezing" cell and "interrogated".
Revealing how he felt at that moment, he said: "I feel bad talking about what I went through because I haven't lost my life. But yeah, they took nail clippings, I had hardly any nails as I was just biting away at them but they were adamant in getting them.
"They took a bit of my hair and swabs, fingerprints."
The dad added that he was left heartbroken for being accused of something that he didn't do. And, he revealed the horrors of what he heard in jail, with other people taunting him.
He said: "As you can imagine, when he had left, I was thinking could I get accused for something I haven't done, could they make a mistake?
"To be thinking that for 10 hours was hard work I think, because what he had also done by talking about it in the hallway, there were other people in custody and they were shouting 'wait till you get to prison'."
Eventually, Wayne, Chloe’s friends and another man were all released with no further action taken.
Speaking about why all members were arrested, a spokesperson for Merseyside Police said: “In the first 24 hours of an investigation it is essential all evidence is gathered.
“In this investigation the circumstances were not clear so we had to be guided by golden hour principles which includes the immediate collection of evidence to ascertain what has taken place.
“As soon as it became apparent that there were no suspicious circumstances the three men were all released without further action taken.
“At this moment in time we have not received a complaint and as such it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.”
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