Owner of paddleboarding company jailed over deaths of four people in Pembrokeshire

Prison for Guide Who Led Paddleboarders to Their Deaths

A paddleboarding outing on a rain-swollen Welsh river turned fatal when four people drowned under the guidance of a former police officer, who has now been sentenced to more than a decade in prison, per the AP . On Wednesday, Nerys Bethan Lloyd, 39, was sentenced to 10.5 years in...

Paddleboard guide jailed for 10 years over deaths of four people

A former police firearms officer who ran a paddleboarding company has been jailed for more than 10 years after four people drowned during a journey she oversaw on a swollen southwest Wales river.

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

Nerys Lloyd, 39, was sentenced to 10 years and six months at Swansea Crown Court on Wednesday. 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 hazardo…

Paddleboard instructor's actions on fatal Haverfordwest excursion were 'reckless'

Four people died following the tragedy on the River Cleddau in Haverfordwest in October 2021

The trip on a river ends fatally: four people die during stand-up paddling in Wales. According to the indictment, the tour organiser had no qualifications - now consequences follow.

Woman jailed after deaths of four west Wales paddleboarders

Nerys Lloyd has been jailed for 10 years and six months after four paddleboarders drowned under her watch on the River Cleddau in Haverfordwest