Father guilty of children's deaths
Updated on 17 December 2008
A father has been found guilty of causing the deaths of four of his children who died when their Land Rover plunged into a river.
Lincoln Crown Court was told Nigel Gresham had been driving his heavily-modified vehicle too fast when it ended up plunging into the River Witham in Lincolnshire in September last year.
Gresham had mounted a grass verge to avoid an oncoming van and trailer, and when he tried to return to the road, the corroded bracket, or hanger, snapped, sending the car into the water near Tattershall Bridge.
The crash killed four of his seven children - two-year-old Willow, Angel, four, Thor, six, and eight-year-old Keavy.
Gresham, 37, his partner Sara Bolland and their three eldest children - Amber, 11, Liam 14, and Star, also 14 - survived the crash.
The accused did not take the stand and no evidence was offered in his defence during the trial.
Gresham, of Chapel Hill, Lincolnshire, has sat slumped in the dock, head bowed, through much of the trial. He became visibly upset at mentions of his children. He had denied all four counts against him.
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