Every Morning I Pull Seven Bowls Out of the Cupboard for Breakfast ... But Then Realise I Only Need Three ; Two Years After 'Land Rover in the River' Tragedy Killed Four of Her Children, Mother Tells Why She Can't Forgive the Father Who Drove Them to Their Deaths

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Sleep does not come easily to Sara Bolland.

And if it comes at all, it invariably ends in a nightmare. With crushing predictability the themes are always the same. She is screaming, paralysed with fear on a sunny river bank and staring at a row of lifeless little bodies. After she wakes, Sara lays the table for breakfast, putting out seven bowls and seven spoons. Then she stops herself, remembering, with an agonising ache, that she needs to set only three places.

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Every Morning I Pull Seven Bowls Out of the Cupboard for Breakfast ... But Then Realise I Only Need Three ; Two Years After 'Land Rover in the River' Tragedy Killed Four of Her Children, Mother Tells Why She Can't Forgive the Father Who Drove Them to Their Deaths

It has been two years since four of her seven children drowned but for Sara, 33, the grieving process has barely begun. It has taken since that terrible day, Sunday, September 16, 2007, for the immediate shock to subside.

Even now, she struggles to accept the harrowing reality of what became known as the 'Land Rover in the River' case. The haunting image of the canary yellow vehicle being winched from the murky water shocked a nation.

Sara's fiance, Nigel Gresham, had been driving when he lost control and it went spinning off a narrow Lincolnshire lane, rolling into a river below. In a scene of almost unimaginable horror...

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