13/03/2026
This is why carbon monoxide alarms are so important!
A teenage girl found dead alongside her boyfriend sent her mother a final message saying 'goodnight, I love you' before the pair died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, an inquest opening heard.
Cherish Adele Bean, 15, and Ethan Harry Slater, 17, were described as 'fit and well' before being discovered unresponsive at a holiday park last month.
They had been staying at a lodge known as the Man Cave at Little Eden Holiday Park near Bridlington, East Yorkshire.
An inquest hearing into their deaths on February 18 was told that four suspects had been arrested in an ongoing criminal investigation into 'gross negligence manslaughter involving carbon monoxide poisoning'.
A boiler recovered from the couple's lodge is also being forensically examined.
Opening the inquests at East Riding Coroner’s Court, area coroner Paul Marks told how the teenagers had been on a family holiday to the lodge park, near the village of Carnaby.
He said: 'The family spent the night together and Cherish and Ethan were both fit and well.
'Cherish left the family for the smaller cabin next door, with Ethan at 9pm to watch TV.
'She returned to the main cabin at 9:50pm complaining of a headache, spoke with her mother and had Calpol as the family had no paracetamol.'
'Cherish went back to bed in the small lodge and texted her mother at 10.20pm to say goodnight and that she loved her.
'The circumstances were similar for Ethan, who went back to the cabin at a similar time.'
Cherish and Ethan, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, were discovered dead the following morning in Cabin 31 - known as the 'man cave'.
The coroner's court was told that police arrested and interviewed four suspects connected with the management and maintenance of the site.
