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Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Yahoo
Nerys Lloyd: Details of fatal paddleboarding trip instructor's police sacking revealed
Police have revealed details around the dismissal of the co-instructor in a fatal paddleboarding trip. Nerys Lloyd was jailed last month for the gross negligence manslaughter of Paul O'Dwyer, 42, Andrea Powell, 41, Morgan Rogers, 24, and Nicola Wheatley, 40. The 39-year-old had also pleaded guilty to one offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act. The four were of the River Cleddau in Pembrokeshire. They got into difficulty after their paddleboards passed over a weir in the town of Haverfordwest during "extremely hazardous conditions" in October 2021. Lloyd was the owner and sole director of Salty Dog Co Ltd, the firm which had organised the tour. The defendant, who worked as a firearms officer for South Wales Police, was separately accused of breaching the standards of professional behaviour. The misconduct hearing took place on 14 January 2022, but the publication of the outcome was postponed. Now that criminal proceedings have concluded, South Wales Police has published the outcome of the hearing, which details that Lloyd was accused of making a fraudulent insurance claim. Lloyd was dismissed without notice and placed on the police barred list. The decision on the outcome, compiled after the hearing, states that Lloyd did not attend it and neither had she submitted a written response to the allegations. Lloyd made a claim against the South Wales Police Federation group insurance scheme for her vehicle's repair costs. The cost of the work to repair the vehicle was somewhere between £16 and £20 but the insurance claim made by Lloyd was for £577.55. Read more from Sky News: The report into her dismissal states that, when the matter came to light, she admitted her wrongdoing and immediately apologised. She was interviewed under caution on 11 October 2021, less than three weeks before the fatal paddleboarding tour. When interviewed by police, Lloyd said she had made a "massive error of judgement" in relation to the insurance claim and she later repaid the amount in full.
BBC News
30-04-2025
- BBC News
Paddleboard firm owner Nerys Lloyd was sacked as PC for fraud claim
A paddleboard firm boss, jailed after four people died in a river accident, was sacked from the police over a fraudulent insurance Lloyd, 39, from Aberavon, was jailed at Swansea Crown Court on 23 April for 10 years and six months after the tragedy on the River Cleddau in October the case has finished, South Wales Police has published details of a misconduct hearing for the former reveals she was sacked in November 2022 after claiming more than £500 from a car insurance scheme when the actual cost of repairs was around £20. Lloyd was jailed last week after admitting gross negligence manslaughter following the tragedy on the River Cleddau in October company Salty Dog had organised the excursion in which Paul O'Dwyer, Andrea Powell, Morgan Rogers and Nicola Wheatley drowned at a weir in Haverfordwest, had previously admitted gross negligence manslaughter and a health and safety the criminal case has concluded, the south Wales force has released previously unpublished details of an unrelated misconduct investigation into an insurance his findings, the Chief Constable Jeremy Vaughan describes how Lloyd, who had served as a firearms officer, had made a fraudulent claim against the South Wales Police Federation motor insurance actual cost of a repair to her car was "in the region of £16 to £20" but she had claimed £ report says that when the matter came to light, Lloyd had admitted her wrongdoing and immediately apologised for her claim was reported to South Wales was interviewed under caution on 11 October 2021, two weeks before the tragedy on the river, on the made a full admission to the fraudulent claim and said she had made a "massive error of judgement". She repaid the money 19 October 2021, she had attended Ystrad Mynach Police Station, Caerphilly county, and accepted a formal caution for the criminal offence of fraud by false representation under the Fraud Act 2006. At the misconduct hearing in January 2022, the chief constable found the allegations of breaches professional standards were proved for honesty and integrity, bringing discredit on the police service and undermining the confidence of the Vaughan said it was entirely unacceptable for police officers, who are responsible for enforcing the law, to break the law concluded that she should be dismissed without the sentencing hearing last week it was disclosed that Lloyd had been suspended by South Wales Police when the tragedy the judge Mrs Justice Mary Stacey said the prior caution for fraud would not have any bearing on her sentencing decision.
