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Josh Salisbury

Former police officer admits manslaughter of four paddleboarders who drowned 'in worst ever accident'

Nerys Lloyd (centre, on crutches) leaving Swansea Crown Court, where she pled guilty over paddleboarding tragedy - (George Thompson/PA Wire)

A former police officer has admitted the manslaughter of four people who died in an “avoidable” paddleboarding tragedy on a river in south-west Wales in 2021.

Nerys Bethan Lloyd, 39, was in charge of an organised paddleboarding tour on the River Cleddau in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in October 2021, in which four people died in what is thought to be Britain’s worst-ever paddleboarding tragedy.

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