THE father of a two-year-old girl who died when her parents’ car rolled into the River Teifi from a slipway in Cardigan has said she was the victim of a freak accident.

Kiara Moore was found by divers in her parents’ Mini in March a week before her third birthday.

Speaking last week, her father, Jet, said: “There is no point in blaming anyone - it was a freak accident.”

In May, Dyfed-Powys Police said inquiries had concluded and no charges would be brought.

Mr Moore and his partner, Kim Rowlands, initially thought their car had been stolen when it vanished from the slipway outside their outdoor pursuits business on 19 March with their daughter inside.

But after a police search, the silver Mini was found in the river, along with Kiara’s body.

In a Facebook post written shortly after her death, which has since been deleted, her mother said: “Due to my own stupidity, I will have to live with the guilt of this for the rest of my life.

“Mummy loves you baby girl and I’m so sorry.”

But Mr Moore said last week that there was ‘no point’ in blaming anyone.

“If you go back to that day there were so many little things that happened that, if you were to try and do it again, wouldn’t happen,” he added.

“At worst, what could I blame? I could blame the handbrake on the car, maybe, if I felt the need to.

“Could any of us have changed anything? We could have not got out of bed that day, we could have not gone to work. But that’s all ‘could haves’ - there’s no point really of dwelling.”

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