30/05/2013 BBC News at Ten

Mark Bridger will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Throughout the

trial, he has consistently denied murdering the five-year-old. Mark

Bridger has relentlessly spun a web of lies and half-truths in order to

try and distance himself from the cruelly horrific nature of the crime

he perpetrated. The last pictures of April. Hours

later she was taken, never to be seen again. Her mother thanks the

community for their help. Without their support I do not know how we

would have got through. The last seven months since April was so

cruelly taken from us. conviction has not brought April's

parents the one piece of information that they crave, where Mark Bridger

put her body. One of the Woolwich murder suspect

appears in court, charged under terrorism laws.

Europe tells the UK to stop restricting what benefits can be

claimed by EU migrants. And 500 years after she sank in the

Solent, the Tudor warship the Mary Rose reveals her secrets.

And coming up on the BBC News Channel: Marcuse said he will

restore his managerial reputation at Stoke City, signing a three-year

deal with the club after being sacked by QPR six months ago. --

found guilty of the abduction and murder five-year-old April Jones.

She went missing last October, leading to a huge search by police

and people in her hometown of McKinley in mid Wales. Bridger has

never revealed how he killed April nor what he did with her body. Her

parents have said in a statement, how will we ever get over it? Are

happy, playful little girl. This was April Jones at the swimming pool on

the day she disappeared. Within two hours, April was abducted. Her path

crossed with Mark Bridger, paedophile who had spent months

looking for potential victims online. Today, moments after seeing

Mark Bridger being sentenced, April's parents spoke of the

consolation they felt amid the loss. We are relieved that Mark Bridger

has been found guilty today of the murder of our beautiful daughter

April. April will be forever in our hearts that we are so moved by the

overwhelming support that we have had from so many people from all

over the world. In court, Mark Bridger could only nod as the judge

described him as a pathological liar. The officer who led the police

investigation shared that contempt for him. He was responsible for the

most horrific of crimes, the abduction and murder of a vulnerable

five-year-old child, April Jones. Justice has been done, and Mark

Bridger, and evil and manipulative individual, will have his liberty

taken away from him for the rest of his life. On the estate where she

lived, there are reminders of April everywhere. Surrounded by family and

friends, this was a place where she should have been safe. April was

playing on her bike here, just round the corner from her home, when she

was spotted by Mark Bridger. With no other adults around, he saw his

opportunity. Only her seven-year-old friends saw what happened next. The

friend says that April was happy and smiling as she got into the car.

Panicked by the disappearance, what was to become the largest ever

search in UK police force history. Alongside them, an army of

volunteers. Machynlleth mobilised to try and find the little girl. As it

searched from the sky, the police helicopter picked up March Bridger.

His name had entered the investigation at this stage, but

five hours passed before he was arrested. He told the police he did

not know what he had done with April's body after crushing her in a

car accident. The investigation soon unravelled his story. When police

officers went into his home, they found fragments of a child's skull

in his fireplace. There were bloodstains matching April's DNA and

the slaughterman's former boning knife. His computer was filled with

indecent images of children and clothed pictures of local

schoolgirls. These discoveries have unnerved those who knew Mark Bridger

and considered him a friend. I have known him for 15 years. To think

that the possibility was there was awful. I felt panic, thinking is

there a possibility that he had photographs of my children. The

children of friends. For April's parents, the verdicts may bring

comfort but no answers to the question that paints them the most.

Only Mark Bridger knows what he did with April's body. He has suggested

to a priest in jail that he dumped her in a river, information he has

not been prepared to share with the police. It means that eight months

on, April Jones is still missing. Her body is no closer to being

brought home. Mark Bridger was described in court

as a pathological liar with a clear interest in child pornography and

child murder cases. As the trial revealed, he had been involved in

the number of violent incidents. A liar and a fantasist. The drunk with

a history of violence. A paedophile. His computer contained many pictures

of young girls. In a community still mourning for a child, people are

asking what they really knew about Mark Bridger and what he was capable

of. In the pub, he told stories, claiming a military past, suggesting

he was a member of the SAS, even that he had had to change his

identity because of threats from the IRA. It was all lies. Workmates say

they were used to him bending the truth. We learned after a while that

he had a tell, that he would rub his head like this when he was thinking,

to embellish on something. There were truths, but this community did

not know them. Mark Bridger had past convictions for firearms offences,

causing affray and criminal damage. The former landlord has told the BBC

why he attacked him. I heard this banging on the back door. I went out

and he was all dressed in his bovver boots and his jacket. He was

shouting that I had belittled him in the pub. He pushed me into my bike,

headfirst. And he started beating me about the head. Mark Bridger's past

convictions were not for sexual offences, but when detectives

searched the home he was renting, they make disturbing discoveries. On

his computer, found inside the house, there were pictures of young

girls, including April. There will also images of children being

sexually abused, and photographs of murder victims, including Holly

Wells and Jessica Chapman, the victims of the Soham murders. And it

appears that on the night that April went missing, he had been watching a

horror film here including a graphic rape scene. The former slaughterman

told the court that he drank up to 25 cans of cider day and he has

blamed alcohol for not remembering what happened inside and what

happened to April. He is playing games and he has played games with

the court the whole time that he has been in court, saying things like

you probably did kill her, he probably did run her down. It is

tempting, he is teasing. The fact that he disposed of the body and did

not tell the family, again it is all about power and control. April was

taken from an area where children regularly play. Every day of the

trial, this community learned more about him. It is just horrendous and

horrific, really, the -- for Coral Jones and ball. Even now the full

extent of the crime has not been revealed and he may be the only

person to ever know how April died. Hywel Griffith is there now.

April's parents made a statement to the court that spelt out a

devastating this has been for them and their other children. -- how

devastating. Yes, these were perhaps the most poignant words spoken

today. The impact statement read in court. There were tears as Coral

Jones described her daughter. April had been born prematurely. She had a

hole in her heart and she had cerebral palsy. The care that you

needed meant that April ruled their lives. But on April one, a night

that Coral Jones will never forget, April had been allowed to go out and

play with her friends, which he had done hundreds of times before. But

that night she would never come home. She spoke of the guilt that

she had felt and would have to live with having allowed her daughter to

go out. The statement finished with a difficult question. How will we

ever get over this? There is no answer to that in this community,

but they do want to support the family over the difficulties ahead.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Lee Rigby in

Woolwich. Michael Adebowale was permitted to remain seated because

of the injuries he sustained when shot by police. Eight days on from

the Woolwich killing, high-speed arrival for the suspect who was

released from hospital two days ago. The charging decision was announced

24 hours later. Michael Adebowale appeared in the dock in handcuffs,

with his right hand bandaged. Because of his leg injuries, he was

a -- permitted to remain seated for most of the hearing. He is charged

with the murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich last Wednesday, and also a

second count. He is accused of possessing a 9.4 mm revolver with

intent to cause people to believe that violence would be used against

them or others. The second suspect, Michael Adebolajo, is still in

hospital and yet to be questioned. At the brief hearing today, it was

announced that Michael Adebowale will be prosecuted under terrorism

legislation. He will make a second court appearance on Monday. Then he

will be at the Old Bailey. He was remanded to Belmarsh top security

jail in South East London, not far from Woolwich Barracks. The barracks

commander here has made a statement thanking the local community for all

their support over the past week. After the first court appearance

today, tomorrow the focus switches to a coroners Court in South London.

There the inquest into the death of Lee Rigby is due to open. Bashar

al-Assad has said that Russia has been supplying him with weapons, but

wouldn't confirm whether any Russian missiles had already been delivered.

President Assad in a recorded interview on Lebanese television

tonight, claiming that Russia is fulfilling its missile contract with

Syria. Though it doesn't seem though Russia's controversial air defence

system has yet arrived. TRANSLATION: We are negotiating with

the Russians on many types of weapons. Parts of these negotiations

have been fulfilled, and we and the Russians are continuing to implement

these contracts. It is these sophisticated Russian S 300

surface-to-air missiles that everyone is focused on. They would

let Syria should down incoming aircraft and missiles, a potential

threat to future is Israeli airstrikes or any international

no-fly zone. Just as the outside world tries to organise a peace

conference, the stakes in this conflict are getting higher. The

peace talks are tentatively planned for mid-June in Geneva. The

obstacles are mounting. It's by no means clear the two warring sides

will sit down together. Both are hinting at preconditions. And

internationally tensions are rising. Britain and France are talking about

arming moderate rebels. And Russia seems intent on sending President

Assad his missiles. Now other countries are getting directly

involved in the fighting, too. In recent battles over the strategic

town of Qusair, Syrian rebels, many of them Sunni, have found themselves

outnumbered and surrounded. Not only by Syrian government troops, but by

Hezbollah fighters, the Shia movement from across the border in

Lebanon which has close ties to Iran. We've always feared about the

Syrian crisis turning into a proxy war. It hasn't happened yet but it's

closer this week than it was weeks ago. The real danger is it becomes

deeply sectarian between Shia and Sunni. That will affect the politics

of the Middle East from Lebanon and right through. It's partly because

negotiations may be in the offing that the fighting and posturing over

the conflict in Syria is getting more intense. But as more weapons

and foreign fighters prepare to pour into Syria, the danger is that any

peace talks may be undermined before they've even got going. The US

authorities have intercepted a threatening letter to President

Obama, it is said to be similar to ones containing traces of rising,

which have been sent to the high-profile supporters of tougher

gun controls. Gun murders have reached 11,000 a year, according to

latest figures. Events like that Sandy Hook shootings prompted the

president to push for tighter gun controls. Frank Gardner has been to

a hospital in Los Angeles, where he has been talking to victims of gun

violence. Nightshift at LA County Hospital. A man has been brought in,

shot on the streets. Hurry up, right now, guys. Down in ER, they treat a

quarter of all recorded gunshot wounds in greater Los Angeles. This

is one of the busiest trauma clinics in all America. The most serious,

life-threatening cases, where there is internal bleeding, are taken

straight up to the operating theatre. He's a mail that was shot

about an hour and a half ago. He's got two gunshot wounds. This patient

lived. But in a city with over 400 known criminal gangs, guns and

violence go hand-in-hand. This is the reality of daily gun crime here

in the United States. A drive-by shooting like this is never going to

make headlines like the recent massacres. In the few days we've

been here in this hospital, we've seen a constant stream of gunshot

wound victims being brought in. And that is because many of the getting

caught up in the crossfire of a gang war that is being fought on the

streets just outside this hospital. The LAPD estimate there are 45,000

gang members in Los Angeles. Most of their guns are privately owned. Down

in South Central LA, I went to meet two reformed gang members, now

trying to defuse tensions in their community. Guns are a serious issue.

Until we get some control of not only the weaponry itself but the

majority that use the weaponry, we are going to be fighting a serious

war that will take all of our reserves and energies to get in

front of. Lorraine Moreland knows there's more than most. He was such

a good boy, just a loving kid. lost two sons to gun violence. She

will never forget that first phone call. You are just, it's going to be

all right, that's my baby, that's my boy. He didn't make it. You didn't

get to the hospital in time? Back in the hospital, I met a man

who cheated death. Carlos survived being ambushed by a gang with a

pistol then stabbed and blasted with a shotgun. I thank God for my life.

I'm talking to you. We are here. they left you for dead? Guess.Do

you think they thought you were dead? Most likely. Being shot like

that, yes. Being shot 16 times. death toll from LA's gun crime is

down by two thirds from the early 90s. And yet tonight, as every

night, the trauma team will be bracing themselves for more gunshot

wound victims. You can see more on that report on Newsnight on BBC Two

at 10:30pm. The European Commission has demanded that the UK lifts

restrictions on what benefit immigrants from the EU are allowed

to claim. It has referred the UK to the European Court of Justice. The

work and pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has said he will fight

the case every step of the way, and called it a blatant land-grab. Every

day, EU citizens come to Britain to live and work. Under treaty rules,

the UK shouldn't treat them any differently than they do their own

people. Another European Commission is taking the British government to

court, complaining that UK is not playing fair over to benefits.

need in the single market rules which followed by everyone. That is

how the single market can function. The labour market is part of the

single market. We also have to ensure the free movement of workers

on equal terms. The rules governing the rights of EU citizens to claim

benefits in Britain have been described as opaque, confusing and

evolving. But bear with me. First of all, to get any UK benefits, EU

migrants must pass a habitual residence test, to prove they really

do live here legally. Similar rules cry -- apply across the EU. But here

in the UK that's not enough to qualify all benefits forced to get

out of work benefits they must pass a further right to reside test.

Jobless British and Irish citizens pass this one automatically. But

people from other parts of the EU must prove they are genuinely

looking for capable of work. And that may rule them out of some

benefits, including sickness and disability benefit and the pension

credit, which are, by definition, for people who are not looking for

work. Public concern about so-called benefit tourism by immigrants has

led MPs from across the political spectrum to criticise the European

Commission's legal challenge against the UK. Conservative ministers are

also determined to show that they are not going to allow bureaucrats

in Brussels to dictate to Britain about its welfare policy. This is a

land grab by the European Commission, it's a land-grab too

far. They are trying to use freedom of movement to take control, I

think, of an area of welfare payments which was never in the

treaties. This 62-year-old Polish woman was a clean and carer in the

UK for ten years. After the work dried up, she applied for benefits

but failed the right to reside test. Supporters say if she'd been British

elsewhere in the EU, she would have been entitled to welfare. Is a

British citizen is living in another member state of the EU and that

person is in difficult circumstances and there is a benefit that is

equivalent to these benefits over there, the British citizen will get

that benefit. But when citizens of other EU member states are here and

they apply for the benefits, they are often refused because of this

disgruntled Tory test. Some say Britain is widely in the dock, for

not treating people in ways it demands for its own. Others, that

this is a challenge to the sovereignty of the UK. In several

years time, a judge may decide who is right. That move by Brussels

against the UK as part of a wider crackdown by the European

Commission, but it also includes taking action against Spain for

refusing to provide free merchant he helped lead EU citizens, including

British holidaymakers. We report from Malaga. Bring on the sunshine.

A much-needed break on the beach, a short hop from home, with all the

comforts of home. Or so thought Ray and Rosemary Burton when they were

last on holiday here. They headed to this hospital when he became

seriously ill. Ray showed them his European health card. The EHIC is

free for all EU citizens and should guarantee treatment in public

hospitals across the EU. presented our EHIC cards but we were

asked for credit cards and then later asked for insurance details.

They were quite firm in not wanting the EHIC card. It's not just them.

One woman needed surgery in Ibiza for a twisted bowel. Her card wasn't

accepted, the hospital is charging her �21,000. In Alicante, a British

woman with a head injury was charged �2500. Her daughter had to fly to

Spain to demand and get a refund. Millions of British people come to

this part of Spain every single year on their holidays. The British

government says that for most of them, if they have to use these

health cards, the system does work. But there is concern about when it

doesn't work, and not just for British people but for holidaymakers

from across Europe. So today, Spain's health officials has been

ordered by the European Commission to fix the system. The Spanish

government insists there's nothing wrong, but it will cooperate with

Brussels on this. From the shores of Spain to the streets of Britain

then, the European Commission -- European Commission today flexed its

muscles. It's law is to ensure that countries follow the rule of the

single market, rules which have been signed up to buy every EU country,

but whose interpretation is often bitterly contested. It's nearly 500

years since Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, sank during a battle

in the Solent. Her new home was unveiled today, a purpose-built �35

million museum 30 years after she was raised the seabed. In the heart

of Portsmouth's historic dockyard, the final stage of a symbolic

journey. The belle of the Mary Rose had arrived at her new home. This

was another chapter in the story of a ship lost for centuries, which

came home on an autumn day in 1982. There is the wreck of the Mary

Rose. It has come to the surface. But raising the Mary Rose was just a

start. Preserving and displaying her would be equally challenging. Henry

VIII had watched his flagship founder during a battle with the

French. Only 25 of her 400 crew survived. In the decade since the

Mary Rose was raised from the seabed, she has remained alongside

HMS victory, sealed in a plastic tent and sprayed with water and

preservative chemicals. The challenge facing the architect was

how to build this 21st-century museum around the Mary Rose, whilst

maintaining that environment and protecting the ancient dock which

has become her home. This month, after 30 years of treatment, the

sprays were turned off. Around the ship, a transformation had taken

place. A new home which includes a reconstruction of the ship is

missing port side, packed with the Canon, cargo and possessions that

offer a perfect snapshot of Judah life. I'm staggered. Never have so

many wonderful to do things ever been brought together before. You

come in... I feel that I am Carter at the tomb of Tutankhamen.

traffic -- the treasure trove leads us to the lives of the crew.

Advances in scanning technology have enabled visitors to meet some of

them face-to-face. This evening's razzmatazz marked decades of