THE PARENTS of a young Cross Inn woman killed by a drink-driver teamed up with Ceredigion MP Mark Williams and the road safety charity Brake to call for tougher penalties for drink and drug-drivers in a news conference outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday.

Flanked by Richard and Ceinwen Briddon, whose 21-year-old daughter Miriam was killed in a head-on collision near Ciliau Aeron in March 2014, Mr Williams said victims of criminal driving had been let down by the legal system “time and again”.

Mrs Briddon afterwards revealed that the family were on the verge of launching their own personal petition to change laws - ‘A Moment for Miriam’ – which, she said, would run alongside the RoadsToJustice campaign.

“The trauma of losing Miriam was one thing, but the extra stress we have been forced to endure through the courts has made everything much worse,” she said. “They seem to forget the victims and their families when these cases are brought to court.

“We cannot change Gareth Entwistle’s sentence, but by supporting this campaign and starting our own we hope to prevent other people going through what we ourselves have been forced to go through.”

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