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Family photoA court has heard that there was an “obvious potential for the real danger” the duration of the sentence of an owner of a Paddleboard tourism company after the death of four people.
Paul O’Dwyer, 42, Andrea Powell, 41, Morgan Rogers, 24, and Nicola Wheatley, 40, drowned while Pama in “extremely dangerous conditions” on the Cleddau River, Haverfordwest, Pembrokehire, in op.
Nerys Bethan Lloyd, 39, from Port Talbot, is the former owner of Salty Dog, the company now dissolved who operated the tour.
Mrs. Lloyd admitted homicide last month. It was revealed that it did not have the right grades to execute the tour.
In today’s court, Mr. Watson, prosecuting, explained that there was an “obvious potential for real danger.”
He told the Court that several group members had a very limited experience.
Adding that both Nerys Bethan Lloyd and his commercial partner Paul O’Dwyer “were not remotely qualified”, since they only had a “basic entry level rating” that was not suitable for the tour they led.
He explained that the couple “stopped briefly in the center of the city to inspect the river” that day, but “did not inspect the landfill”, and added that they knew there was a landfill in that stretch of river that had rowed there in August.
The group of seven participants and Co -Instructor Paul O’Dwyer departed after 09:00 of October 30, 2021.
The court heard that there had been strong rains in the previous days and “the river was in flood conditions” with a “visible strong current.”
“If the eight people who made the landfill that day only survived,” he said.
Watson explained that there were desperate attempts of “spectators who tried to throw lines of life to the landfill.”
The court heard that the intensity of the water that day “was the equivalent of two tons of water that crossed the 1m of the dump crest every second.”
The climatic conditions meant that the difference between the water levels above and below the landfill of that day would have been “a fall of 1.3 m”.
