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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
George Thompson

Victim’s mother can ‘never forgive’ woman jailed for paddleboarding deaths

Former police officer Nerys Bethan Lloyd, 39, was sentenced to 10 years and six months for the manslaughter of four people at Swansea Crown Court on Wednesday (Dyfed-Powys Police/PA) -

The mother of a young woman who died on a river in south-west Wales has said she can “never forgive” the owner of a paddleboarding company who took “full blame” for four deaths.

Nerys Bethan Lloyd, a former police officer, led a stand-up paddleboarding tour on the River Cleddau in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in October 2021 despite “extremely hazardous conditions” with weather warnings in place.

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