A teenage girl complained of a headache before she and her boyfriend died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a holiday park, their inquest has heard.
Cherish Bean, 15, and Ethan Slater, 17, were found dead in a cabin at Little Eden Holiday Park in Bridlington last month.
An inquest opening into the couple’s deaths on Tuesday heard they had been on a family holiday, and had both been “fit and well” when the family spent the evening together on 17 February.
Senior coroner Prof Paul Marks said Cherish left the family at about 9pm for a smaller cabin, known as the “man cave”, where she was staying with Ethan.
She returned about an hour later complaining of a headache, and had some Calpol because the family had no paracetamol, the hearing at Hull Coroner’s Court was told.
After returning to bed she texted her mother after 10pm to say goodnight, Prof Marks said. Ethan went back to the cabin at a similar time.
Det Ch Insp Ben Robinson, of Humberside Police, said four people who are “associated with the management and maintenance” of the holiday park had been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter, interviewed and bailed.
Asked by the coroner whether there was reason to believe the couple’s deaths were “associated with carbon monoxide poisoning”, Mr Robinson said there was.
He told the hearing that the official medical cause of death was still pending the forensic pathologist’s examination.
Mr Robinson said the boiler from the cabin had been recovered and a forensic evaluation had been done, supported by specialist gas engineers.
He said the Health and Safety Executive and the National Crime Agency had also been consulted.
Prof Marks adjourned the inquest until after the conclusion of the police investigation.
He said: “I would like, once again, to extend my condolences to both the families of these young people.”
In a tribute to her daughter released by police last month, Cherish’s mother described her as “my perfect girl, my angel”.
Ethan’s mother said he was “the most beautiful young man to walk the earth”.
