THE family of the young Cross Inn woman killed in a head-on collision with a drink-driver have launched an online petition calling for a change in sentencing guidelines “to make the punishment fit the crime”.

Richard and Ceinwen Briddon, whose 21-year-old daughter Miriam died on the A482 near Ciliau Aeron on 29 March, 2014, say they and their daughters Katie-Ann, Megan and Lowri feel “betrayed and frustrated” by the legal system.

Miriam, a budding fashion designer and identical twin, was weeks away from being awarded a first-class honours degree at the time of her death.

She had been driving to see her boyfriend when a Volkswagen Golf driven at speed by Gareth Entwistle strayed into the path of her Fiat Punto.

Entwistle, who was jailed for five and a half years after admitting causing death by careless driving, subsequently had six months of his sentence cut by London’s Criminal Appeal Court.

The Briddon family’s ‘A Moment for Miriam’ petition, which calls on the government “to review and change the guidelines that determine sentencing of drink-drivers that kill” had attracted 2,000 signatures within two days of being set up.

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