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Morgan Rogers' mum, Theresa Hall said Lloyd "guided Morgan to her death" and the "physical and mental pain that I now live with is too much to bear".

Speaking to Lloyd on Tuesday, she said, "you in your arrogance have stopped me being able to fully grieve for my daughter".

Breaking down in tears, she told Lloyd she would never forgive her "for what you have taken away from me".

Ms Rogers' dad Robert Rogers said, "As a father to have to bury your own daughter is not a path you want any other human being to walk.

"The open wound inflicted will never ever heal. My family will have a life sentence of grief for our remaining days."

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Yesterday, Nicola Wheatley's husband Darren called Lloyd "a coward" who had "hidden behind your carefully orchestrated smoke screen".

He added: "I hugged and kissed Nicola goodbye, she was so trusting. The next time I would see her would be to identify her body in the mortuary.

"This was not the Nicola that left our house less than 24 hours earlier but it is the face I see every day when I open my eyes."

With audible anger in his voice he said while they "cried all day" that Christmas, Lloyd was posting pictures on social media celebrating Christmas lights with her family and friends.

Ending his speech he said: "Nerys Lloyd you are a vile person and you disgust me."

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In another statement read yesterday, Mark Powell, the husband of Andrea Powell said the last time he saw his wife "happy and content" was the day before she died when they said goodbye as she left for the trip.

He then saw Andrea in the town's Withybush Hospital where she was in coma and he "burst into tears" seeing the cuts and bruises to her face and body.

When he told their son Finn, who was seven at the time of her death, that she had died, he burst into "uncontrollable tears" and that noise would stay with him forever.

He said it was "heart-breaking" to hear Finn say he wanted to die "so he can be with his mother again".

There had been heavy rain in the days before the incident and "the river was in flood conditions" with a "visibly strong current", prosecutor Mark Watson KC told the court yesterday.

The group of eight were paddleboarding on the Western Cleddau river in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire in October 2021 when they got into difficulty at a weir.

There were desperate attempts of "bystanders who tried to throw lifelines into the weir", but the intensity of the water "was the equivalent of two tonnes of water crossing the 1m of the weir crest every second".

The court was shown photos of the weir, including the section between the right and left crest called the fish pass, which the group was trying to navigate.

Mr Watson said the fish pass was 11m (36ft) long and on an incline of about 14%.

He explained it showed "immense turbulence" of the water which meant the side walls of the fish pass could "barely, if at all, be seen".

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Paul O'Dwyer, alongside Lloyd, was co-instructor of the paddleboarding company Salty Dog and one of the four people who died.

In court yesterday, his wife Ceri O’Dwyer, had a statement read on her behalf.

Paul made a "devastating mistake" but "died trying to save others".

"Grief is in our household every single day. You carried on as if nothing ever happened," she added.

She told Lloyd she was once her friend but was met with "blame, rejection and gaslighting" when she tried to "shift blame" on to her husband.

"Nerys, I do not believe you will ever learn from this, you've had three years to show remorse and yet you have continued like this is an inconvenience to your life."

On the first day of the sentencing hearing yesterday, we heard the impact statements from the families of the victims.

Speaking in Swansea Crown Court, several of the relatives of the victims spoke directly to Lloyd with Morgan Rogers's mum, Theresa Hall, saying Lloyd "guided Morgan to her death" and the "physical and mental pain that I now live with is too much to bear".

Speaking to Lloyd, she said, "you in your arrogance have stopped me being able to fully grieve for my daughter".

We also heard more detail on what happened on the day of the incident. In the days leading up to the trip, some participants raised concerns.

Mr O'Dwyer suggested alternative tours routes to Lloyd, one of which she said sounded "boring" before she later adding: "Maybe stick to the original."

You can read our full report of yesterday's proceedings here

We're expecting to hear from Lloyd's defence lawyer first after we get started today, before the judge hands down their sentence later on.

Although Lloyd has admitted the charge of gross negligence manslaughter, her defence will provide any mitigation to the judge before the length of sentence is decided.

The judge, Mrs Justice Mary Stacey, will then sum up what she's heard before issuing Lloyd with her sentence. You can watch those remarks as they happen on this page.

That should happen later this morning or just after 12:00 BST.

Yesterday we heard from survivors and the families of the four people who died, as well as the prosecutors.

Nerys Lloyd has arrived at Swansea Crown Court ahead of the second day of her sentencing hearing.

The 39-year-old was in charge of the tour that saw Paul O'Dwyer, Andrea Powell, Morgan Rogers and Nicola Wheatley killed.

She pleaded guilty to gross negligence manslaughter in early March.

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the sentencing of Nerys Bethan Lloyd for the deaths of four people on a paddleboard tour.

We'll bring you all the updates from Swansea Crown Court, with sentencing getting under way at about 10:30 BST.