Question marks remain after death of young Estate Agent

A coroner says there is insufficient evidence to determine the cause of death of a 23-year-old estate agent found on a beach almost a year ago.

Chelsie Dack was reported missing from her Norfolk home on April 20 2020 and found dead on Sizewell beach in Suffolk on May 11.

Assistant Norfolk coroner Johanna Thompson says: “There’s simply insufficient evidence for me to reach a conclusion” adding that conclusions of death by suicide or accident would be “inappropriate” in this 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 a friend saying she felt unwell.

The inquest that one of Dack’s messages 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 and that low levels of date rape drug GBH could 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 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 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 Dack was “a young woman with no recent history of mental health issues”.

Estate Agent Today sends its condolences to colleagues, friends and family of Chelsie Dack.