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served. Mark Bridger will never be free again. We are relieved that | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Mark Bridger has today been found guilty of the murder of our | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
beautiful daughter April. It's a crime which has traumatised a | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
family, shocked the world and cast a shadow across the community. Mark | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Bridger was a man with a troubled past. He pushed his way in. He | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
started beating me about the head. There are still more questions than | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
answers. What was the trigger that's going to move a pretty typical | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
offender into somebody that's capable of abducting a child and | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
killing her? Tonight, as Bridger begins his life | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
behind bars, we examine the man behind the crime that unfolded in | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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one of the safest parts of rural If you were asked to find a town | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
that was ideal to raise a family in a quiet country location, where the | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
word "community" is still relevant, then Machynlleth would probably fit | :01:33. | :01:42. | |
the bill. It's a town that seems to be tucked away from the troubles of | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
the world, where it's still safe for children to play outside after | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
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children. On October 1 last year, she was out playing near her home on | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
the Bryn-Y-Gog estate. There had been a parents' evening at her | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
school. April received a glowing report. As a treat, she was allowed | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
to stay out a little later than normal. | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
This is the estate where April lived. The houses here overlook | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
these communal greens and they look and feel like a safe place for | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
children to play. April wasn't alone the night she disappeared. Other | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
children were playing here too. But at 7. 7.30pm, the unthinkable | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
happened, she was seen getting into an unidentified car. The alarm was | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
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Somebody's picked her up in the car. What's the name of the child? | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
Jones. These are the last pictures of April seen alive. She'd been | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
swimming with her friend at the town's Leisure Centre. A couple of | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
hours later, police and the local community were out searching for | :03:18. | :03:27. | |
her. I remember very well that I was sitting at home and I had Facebook | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
open. I could see this string was happening. I just thought, it was | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
like as if something hit you really hard. This was wrong. I said to my | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
husband, " Let's take the dog and have a look. It can't hurt." I was | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
sitting in my office at home, thinking how can I change our | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
harvest Thanksgiving services. Then the phone went. " Mum, you'd better | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
come over. There's something on Facebook. There's a little girl gone | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
missing." As they searched, CCTV footage from | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
a garage showed Mark Bridger's Land Rover already heading out of | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
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a statement saying they were increasingly concerned about April's | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
safety and whereabouts. The town's Leisure Centre became the search | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
headquarters. But the news was already spreading to the outside | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
world through social media. Throughout the night, police and | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
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helicopter scanned the surrounding area. It caught sight of Mark | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Bridger walking his dog. At that point, he wasn't a suspect, but the | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
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police were soon released details Land Rover. Also, that April got | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
into the driver's side. breakthrough came on the afternoon | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
of October 2, when the police announced that they'd arrested a | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
man, who they'd found walking on the road close to the Dyfi Bridge here a | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
mile from the centre of Machynlleth. They said that they'd found his car | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
which matched the description of the vehicle that was alleged to have | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
been used in April's abduction. Mark Bridger was the man under arrest. He | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
wasn't a stranger, but a local man and well known too. His arrest | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
stunned the town. We were all still waiting down the Leisure Centre to | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
be told whether we could go out searching again. A whisper started | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
circulating, the rumour about who was arrested. Clair Owen was one of | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
the search volunteers. She knew Mark Bridger. Mach is a close town. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Everybody knows everybody. It would have been more unusual if somebody | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
said they didn't know him. To have been told that he was arrested and | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
as that went on, that surprise must have... Mind blowing.Turned to | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
incredulity. Everybody was so upset. Unknown to the town, Mark Bridger | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
was already telling police that April was dead. He'd killed her in a | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
road accident. But the detective in charge had doubts. The story simply | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
didn't add up. During the course of the interview, I think, Mark Bridger | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
was someone who displayed various emotions. When he was talking about | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
matters that he was comfortable with, he was very confident. He was | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
very articulate. When he was challenged and asked about matters | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
that he didn't want to be -- to discuss. He didn't want to talk | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
about those areas, back into the areas he was comfortable with. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
during the process he was trying to hold onto some sort of control? | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
was evident. Mark Bridger lived in Machynlleth for more than 20 years. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
He told people that before he came here, he had been a soldier in the | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Army. But tales of military action were just part of a trait of Mark | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Bridger's that made him stand out. He liked to tell tall stories about | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
his past, very tall stories. liked to elaborate on the truth a | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
little bit. Quite a lot. But everybody knew that. Maybe saying | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
that he'd been in the Army or the SAS and things like this. You just | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
didn't think anything of it. that a story that kept coming up, | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
that he kept telling people that he'd been in the Army? We all | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
believed he'd been in the Army. In fact there's no record that he'd | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
ever been in the Army. But it's a story Mark Bridger would go to great | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
lengths to protect. We've seen documents that show that Bridger was | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
even prepared to lie to a court of law that he'd once been a soldier. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
In a dispute with a former landlord of his flat he made a statement in | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
which he referred to his Army career to illustrate his strength and | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
general fitness, which he said was being undermined by the fumes from a | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
faulty boiler. Bridger consistently lied about his past, so often that a | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
former friend believed he was a fantasist. Professor David Wilson is | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
one of Britain's leading crim nol joists. It's his job to get into the | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
minds of killers. In terms of what might have propelled Bridger from a | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
fantasist into a murderer is the sense that some of these fantasies | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
for Bridger weren't fantasies. They were part and parcel of his | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
psychological make up. He thinks Mark Bridger's Army story helped | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
tick a lot of boxes. The Army is almost a quintessential what | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
sociologist would call hegemonic masculine construct. It's the ideal | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
male type, the person capable of looking after himself, capable of | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
defending himself, plus it allowed him to explain, I imagine, gaps in | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
his own autobiography. It also made him quite a hero. That's - that | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
comes across in terms of the types of jobs he chose. One of those much | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
reported jobs was as a lifeguard, here at the brie Dyfi ledgeure | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
centre. In 1990 Bridger was one of a group of trainees hoping to become a | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
permanent member of staff. The manager at the time remembers him | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
making a bright start. He said he'd come to the area from somewhere near | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
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London, I rae call, following an unfortunate incident in the fire | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
brigade where he used to work. He told me that he'd been up a ladder | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
rescuing someone from a burning building and something had gone | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
wrong and he'd fallen off the ladder with the person he was rescuing and | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
they'd died. At that point, he was so upset he left the fire brigade | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
and moved to this area. But Bridger couldn't hold down the job. He'd | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
gone from very capable and efficient to, I suppose, unreliable and also, | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
I upon deared about the fire brigade incident, because although I had no | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
reason to disbelieve it, it just seems improbable given his age. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
After just five months, Mark Bridger had left. He stayed in the area, | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
drifting from one job to another. He'd most recently worked as a | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
labourer after finishing as a slaughterman for three years. Before | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
that, he worked for a plant hire company in Aberystwyth. Derek Waller | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
worked with him and saw through his lies. We learned after a little | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
while he had a tell. He would rub his head like this when he was kind | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
of, almost as if he was thinking to embellish something or other. A | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
little immature for his years. But nothing, nothing at all that would | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
make you feel I need to steer clear of this person. That bit sticks in | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
my mind about being on a second storey of a building. There was an | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
explosion and he was blown backwards out of the window and landed on the | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
floor on his breathing apparatus behind him. That hurt his back and | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
he couldn't carry on with his job in the fire brigade. Mark Bridger's | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
story of being a heroic firefighter was another fantasy. In 1984 he | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
joined the London Fire Brigade, but never completed his training and | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
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disappearance, police had their man, but there was no sign of April. The | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
truth was they were already too late to find her alive. What sort of man | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
could commit such a crime? Was there anything in his upbringing that | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
could explain how he could be capable of murdering a child? Mark | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Bridger was born in Sutton south London was railed in suburban | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
Croydon. His father was a police officer and he attended mainstream | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
schools. All in all, a respectable upbringing. This is the road where | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
Mark Bridger grew up in the quiet, middle-class suburb of Croydon in | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
south London. Neighbours remember a respectable, normal family. Mark | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Bridger was described as a boy who tended to keep himself to himself | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
and he didn't play with other children on the street. By the time | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
he was 19 Mark Bridger had a conviction for attempting an armed | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
robbery of a grocer's shop in London. He now claims he had never | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
intended any such robbery and his fake gun, just happened to be in the | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
car. But we've found reports at the time that paint a more damning | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
picture. The shop is long gone, but this is the street a couple of miles | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
from Mark Bridger's home, where he'd gone to carry out his armed robbery. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
He was equipped with what was later described as a robber's kit, | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
including a balaclava and a fake handgun. But before he could act, he | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
was caught in a stolen car. He later confessed everything and in court, | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
the judge decided to give him a second chance. It was probation | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
rather than Princess Dianasen for Mark Bridger. -- rather than prison | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
for Mark Bridger. Perhaps looking for a fresh start he moved to | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
Machynlleth in 1990 and married a local girl. The marriage didn't last | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
but he didn't seem to be single for long. He had a number of | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
revelationships over the next 20 years. He wasn't sleazy or trying it | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
on with anybody, he just always seemed to a female friend, | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
companion. Yeah, just always seemed to be with someone. But detectives | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
were uncovering a hidden side to Mark Bridger. His computer contained | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
indecent images of children and revealed a fascination with child | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
abduction and murder stories. think it is evident that in the time | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
leading up to the incident, he is somebody who is losing control. His | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
relationship has broken down. He appears to be struggling financially | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
and I think that on the night in question, he clearly is someone who | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
has got an unhealthy interest in children and I think the opportunity | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
arose. It is unfortunate that April Jones was in the wrong place at the | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
wrong time. The day Bridger took April, he'd | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
been dumped by his latest girlfriend. Also that day, he'd | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
approached two other girls, aged eight and ten, inviting them to a | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
sleepover with hills daughter. -- his daughter. Day three, as the | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
search continued April's distraught mother begged for help. April is | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
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only five years old. Please, please help find her. Pink ribbons appeared | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
across Machynlleth as a symbol of solidarity and hope. An ordinary | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
community showing its support for a family going through torment. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
Reverend Kathleen Rogers had only that year taken on the | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
responsibility for the parish. a good community. It's a typical | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
Welsh, small, country community. peaceful place? Yes. Yes.A happy | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
place? Yes.Up to that night. Up to that night. Then?There was this | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
big, black, heavy cloud over this town and over the community as well, | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
over the villages around Machynlleth as well and this cloud, the longer | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
it went on, this cloud was, felt as if it was pushing us into the | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
ground. It was awful, that first week was awful. She found her | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
self-trying to support a community -- her self-trying to support a | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
community as the eyes of the world looked on. I had an e-mail of | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
somebody who was in, I think Australia, and she said that I live | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
in a Smallvilleage and we've put pink rib orns around the village and | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
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was was saying nothing. The search would continue for another seven | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
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village of Ceinws that the search moved on Thursday, October 4. Mark | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Bridger was known to have been living here most recently. Police | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
searched the house from top to boss op and the evidence that they found | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
here was sufficient to charge him with April's murder. Police found a | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
trail of April's blood at the cottage, a burnt knife and fragments | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
of skull in the log-burning stove. There were signs he had tried to | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
clean up and burn any evidence that April had been in the house. The | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
conclusion drawn by detectives was that Bridger had killed her. But | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
still, he wouldn't say what he'd done with her body. It raises | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
left left without closure. That puts him | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
in the same category at Ian Brady doesn't it? It does, it does. What's | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
interesting, though, about Bridger and his public statements, unlike | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
Brady, is Brady is a paranoid schizophrenic and is clearly a | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
psychopath and is mentally ill. Mark Bridger doesn't strike me in that | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
way. Therefore, I think it would be not unexpected for Bridger, at some | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
stage in the future, to be table to talk about actually what caused this | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
particular crime and where April's body might be, hidden, buried or | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
left. A week after April disappeared, Mark Bridger was | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
formally charged with her murder. Until that point, everybody was | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
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looking for April. Not for April's body. It changed everything. That | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
one event in the whole process changed everyone's way of thinking. | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
The community struggled to come to terms with the news. Mark Bridger | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
appeared to live quietly in his community but there were flashes of | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
the darker side of his personality too. A violent and calculating side. | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
One person who crossed his path was his former landlord. The two of them | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
happened to be drinking in this pub that night. There was a history of | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
bad blood between them, although nothing was said until Bridger's | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
former landlord left and made a sarcastic aside. Bridger took huge | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
offence and decided to wait to take his revenge later that night. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
At quarter to one... In the morning? In the morning, I heard this banging | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
on the door, the back door. I got out. He was all dressed in his | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
bovver boots and his jacket right up to his chin. He was shout shouting | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
I'd belittled him in the pub. I couldn't believe it. He pushed his | :21:23. | :21:32. | |
way in. He was mouthing off to me. He pushed me into my bike head | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
first. He started beating me about the head. His former landlord, who | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
didn't want his face on camera, is convinced that Bridger had carefully | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
planned the attack. He's a crafty, connive conniving so-and-so. He knew | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
with my arthritis I could hardly pick a cup up, you know, at that | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
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time. He knew that I was not in a good state. So your impression, | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
then, when he came to the house was that it was quite calculating, was | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
it? Definitely. Bridger pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
bodily harm and was sentenced to four months in prison suspended for | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
18 months. There was a great deal of planning in relation to what he did. | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
That does imply that he had quite a fragile ego, that maintaining his | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
sense of self, maintaining his sense of face in the community was very | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
important to him. Hundreds took part in a procession the Sunday after | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
April's disappearance, which culminated in a church service in | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
the town. Loving father, we thank you for your guidance during these | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
past difficult days... She was just a sweet little thing with a | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
beautiful smile. Smiling?Yeah, every time I saw her she was always | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
smiling. Yeah, a sweet little child. Who would want to hurt a little | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
child? There is no answer, is there? We can't have the answer. In the | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
middle of this, the family had to cope with the loss of April and the | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
eyes of the world were on them. For them, there was to be no respite | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
from Bridger. Then in January, in a cruel twist, he admitted to probably | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
being responsible for April's death. He's someone who at an earlier | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
hearing admitted he was probably responsible for her death and yet, | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
his plead pleading -- he's pleading not guilty. That tells me a great | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
deal of how murderers are treated especially the murderers of children | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
in prison. It might be to do with the way he can explain his behaviour | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
to other prisoners so as to make his life slightly better inside than it | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
would be if he simply came straight out and said - I murdered a very | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
young child. He would be regarded as the lowest of the low in jail. | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
Mark Bridger's trial began, the full horror of what might have happened | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
was revealed by the prosecution. Sexual images of children, a | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
fascination with child abduction, April's blood in Bridger's house. | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
For the community, this was worse than they'd feared. It's the shock | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
waves of realise realising what could have gone on in April's last | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
moments, it's just something you want to run scream ago way from | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
really. -- screaming away from really. I can hardly believe that | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
such a monster could be acting as normal. It just was all there in | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
stark reality that, no, bless her, she wasn't going to come back and | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
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it's hard. It's very hard. On the day April should have been | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
celebrating her 6th birthday with her family, they took the brave | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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decision to invite the community to come together to celebrate and | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
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Bridger, a man would told tall stories about his life. A man with a | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
checkered love life, a series of failed jobs, a man with criminal | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
convictions. Is this the profile of a man who would abduct and kill a | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
child? What was the trigger that's going to move a pretty typical, | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
anodyne offender into somebody who is capable of abducting a child and | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
killing her? Usually when I deal with predatory paedophiles who have | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
abducted children, I'm dealing with somebody whose record wouldn't be | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
about seven offences, but would be about 70 offences dating back to | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
their childhood, dating back to their teenage years. They will have | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
had long periods of time in Young Offender Institutions and in | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
prisons. I don't have that with Mark Bridger. You would have expected to | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
have seen some previous offending that would have given an idea of the | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
escalation. In this case, that hasn't bob the case. So o -- hasn't | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
been the case. On that basis this case will now inform future research | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
I guess. It is the first time I have ever come across an individual such | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
as Mark Bridger and I hope that I don't have to come across anybody of | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
don't have to come across anybody of don't have to come across anybody of | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
the same make up again. Mark Bridger's lies have been | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
exposed. The judge told him he's a paedophile who's harboured sexual | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
and morbid fantasies about young girls. He's the man who broke the | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
hearts of April's parents. In the moment that justice was done, they | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
retained their composure and dignity just as they did later outside. | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
We'd like to thank our family and friends and the community of | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
Machynlleth. We would like to take this time to be with our family and | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
try to come to terms with the loss of April. For her family, closure | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
will only come when Bridger reveals one of his darkest secrets - where | :27:57. | :28:07. | |
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events of last October have left their mark, but this is a community | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
determined not to be diminished. is the daughter of Machynlleth. And | :28:16. | :28:22. |