Found Deceased UK - Chelsie Dack, 23, Norfolk, 20 Apr 2020

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Awful.

 

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confirmed identified
Body found washed up on beach did belong to missing estate agent Chelsie Dack

 

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Inquest date set for Gorleston woman found on beach

 

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Norfolk assistant coroner Johanna Thompson said she was unable to reach a conclusion into the death of Chelsie Dack following five hours of evidence heard in Norwich on Wednesday.

Miss Dack, from Gorleston, disappeared on April 20, 2020, in the early stages of the coronavirus lockdown.

Her body was found three weeks later on May 11 at Sizewell beach in Suffolk.

It heard how ex-boyfriend Kallem Howard, from Caister, had been arrested for administering a noxious substance but had faced no further action after she told a friend "he gave me something, it is making me really sick".

Giving evidence at the inquest he said they had met for a catch-up on April 19 after he messaged her on Instagram.
Questions remain after inquest into death of Chelsie Dack, 23

 

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Assistant Norfolk coroner Johanna Thompson told the Norwich inquest: “There’s simply insufficient evidence for me to reach a conclusion.”

She added that conclusions of death by suicide or accident would be “inappropriate” in Dack’s case.

The inquest heard Dack had seen an ex-boyfriend, Kallem Howard, in the hours before she was reported missing, and that she had sent messages to her best friend, Emma Halls, late at night reporting that she felt unwell.

Halls told the inquest that one of Dack’s messages, sent at around 11.30pm, said: “He put something in my drink.”

Forensic toxicologist Mark Tyler said Dack’s body did not have high levels of alcohol or other substances.

He said there were low levels of GBH – a date rape drug – or gamma hydroxybutyrate in her blood and urine samples but Tyler said it was “quite possible” that these had been generated naturally by the body after her death.

Howard was questioned by police on suspicion of administering a noxious substance following her death but no further action was taken because of a lack of evidence, the inquest was told.

The coroner said that Dack had been exhibiting “unusual” behaviour on the night before her death, “following which she had expressed an intention to take her own life”.

A message from Dack to Halls at about 1:30am on the morning that she was reported missing, stated: “I am going to go for a walk, I am going to die…”

The coroner pointed out that she was “a young woman with no recent history of mental health issues”.

Her father Matthew Dack told the inquest that his daughter has “always been a happy, caring, loving person, beautiful inside and out, and truly the best daughter anyone could ask for”.

Dack’s mother Dawn Howell added that her daughter was an “absolute delight to be with” and her manager at work “could only describe her in one word and that was ‘perfect’”.
Not enough evidence to decide cause of estate agent’s death says coroner - Property Industry Eye

 

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I was reminded of this case by chance yesterday - at the time it was largely portrayed in the media as a suicide resulting from depression brought on by the first lockdown. Looking now at the reports of the inquest it appears that the circumstances were somewhat more complex:

Not enough evidence to decide cause of estate agent’s death, coroner rules

A coroner has said there is not enough evidence to determine the cause of death of a 23-year-old estate agent who was found on a Suffolk beach.

www.suffolknews.co.uk