Ex-Police Officer Loses Bid to Challenge Sentence over Paddleboarding Deaths

Paddleboard company owner loses bid to challenge sentence over fatal tour

Ex-police officer loses bid to challenge sentence over paddleboarding deaths

Nerys Lloyd was jailed in connection with the deaths of four people during an excursion on a river in south-west Wales

Woman's appeal bid over sentence for paddleboarding deaths fails

Nery Lloyd was jailed last year for causing the deaths of four people on the River Cleddau in Pembrokeshire

Nerys Lloyd: Pembrokeshire paddleboard firm owner's sentence appeal bid fail

Nerys Lloyd was sentenced to 10 years and six months for gross negligence manslaughter in April 2025.

Paddleboard company owner loses bid to cut sentence over Haverfordwest tragedy

A FORMER paddleboard company owner jailed over the deaths of four people on the Western Cleddau has failed in a Court of Appeal bid to challenge her sentence. Nerys Bethan Lloyd, 39, of Port Talbot, was jailed for ten years and six months in April 2025 after admitting four counts of gross negligence manslaughter. Paul O’Dwyer, Andrea Powell, Morgan Rogers and Nicola Wheatley died following a paddleboarding trip on the River Cleddau in Haverfordw…

No appeal for former policewoman over paddle board deaths

A FORMER policewoman and firearms officer who led four paddle boarders to their deaths on a swollen river has been refused leave to appeal her 10-and-a-half-year jail term.