:00:43. > :00:46.of murdering April Jones. The man described as a liar was found guilty
:00:46. > :00:52.of abducting and murdering the five-year-old girl and intending to
:00:52. > :00:58.pervert the course of justice. The court heard he lied to save his own
:00:58. > :01:01.skin and that he had a sexual motive. April Jones's family have
:01:01. > :01:09.welcomed the sentence and verdict but still don't know what has
:01:09. > :01:14.happened to her body. We are relieved Mark Bridger has been found
:01:14. > :01:17.guilty of our beautiful daughter April. April will be forever in our
:01:17. > :01:22.hearts and we are moved from the overwhelming support from all
:01:22. > :01:37.eastern the -- over the world. only person who can tell you exactly
:01:37. > :01:40.The case lasted four-and-a-half weeks and 47-year-old Mark Bridger
:01:40. > :01:48.has been found guilty of murdering April Jones in October last year.
:01:48. > :01:51.The court heard details about traces of blood and bone in Mark Bridger's
:01:51. > :01:55.home, but nobody apart from Bridger himself knows exactly how April died
:01:56. > :01:59.and where her body is. April's parents have regularly attended
:02:00. > :02:03.court during the last few weeks to listen to the case against Mark
:02:03. > :02:06.Bridger. They listened to all the evidence in order to try to
:02:06. > :02:13.understand what happened to their little girl. In the end, they were
:02:13. > :02:20.not willing to do an interview but they did release a statement:
:02:20. > :02:28.would like to thank our family and friends and the community of
:02:28. > :02:35.Machynlleth. We did not know how we were going to get through the last
:02:35. > :02:41.seven months since April was taken from us. For the police and Crown
:02:41. > :02:46.prosecution service, the verdict closed a very sad chapter of the
:02:46. > :03:04.months of investigations. It's very sad but I remember the bravery of
:03:04. > :03:08.Coral and the family as they went April Jones disappeared. A
:03:08. > :03:15.five-year-old girl who was playing outside just a stone's throw away
:03:15. > :03:19.from her home. On that Monday afternoon, Mark Bridger had been at
:03:19. > :03:23.this school for a parents evening. April's mother was here a bit
:03:23. > :03:28.earlier. Later, after going home, April asked if she could go out and
:03:28. > :03:32.play. Her parents refueled to begin with, but after -- refused to begin
:03:32. > :03:38.with, but after she persisted they allowed it. Earlier the same
:03:38. > :03:41.evening, April attended a swimming lesson at Bro Ddyfi Leisure Centre
:03:41. > :03:45.in Machynlleth and these are the final pictures of her before she
:03:45. > :03:50.returned home for tea. At around 7pm, April went outside to play with
:03:50. > :03:53.her friends, the last person to see April, apart from Mark Bridger was
:03:53. > :04:01.her seven-year-old friend who told the court she had seen April getting
:04:01. > :04:09.into Bridger's car and that she was smiling. It was a big basis to the
:04:09. > :04:13.investigation at the time. As the trial went on she was in a very
:04:13. > :04:19.difficult position, never mind a seven-year-old child.
:04:19. > :04:25.She responded to the pressure incredibly honest. Her evidence was
:04:25. > :04:31.accurate and honest. In the court, the jury heard the emergency phone
:04:31. > :04:36.call by Coral Jones at 7. 30pm that evening. She said, " My daughter has
:04:36. > :04:43.been kidnapped. ." By now Coral could hardly breathe. The phone was
:04:43. > :04:47.handed to a friend. " She's gone off in a car with somebody. : What's the
:04:47. > :04:54.name of the child that's gone missing? April Jones.How old is
:04:54. > :04:59.she? Five. However, as Coral made the phone call, Bridger's Land Rover
:05:00. > :05:03.was caught on CCTV camera in a local garage. He was on his way out of
:05:03. > :05:08.Machynlleth and heading home. As the news of April's disappearance
:05:08. > :05:14.spread, the police, her parents and friends went from door to door
:05:14. > :05:28.making inquiries. A couple of girls came around to my house to ask if I
:05:28. > :05:35.had seen a young girl in a purple anorak. I hadn't seen her. It was
:05:35. > :05:39.obvious then that hundreds of people were looking for her. As that first
:05:39. > :05:49.night went on, the volunteers continued to arrive to help with the
:05:49. > :05:54.search. That is what something like this does. You can just look around
:05:54. > :06:18.at who is here tonight, so many different ages. We are all here to
:06:18. > :06:23.used at the beginning of the search. There were appeals on YouTube and
:06:23. > :06:29.Facebook and part of the search was coordinated with text messages and
:06:29. > :06:34.Twitter. This page on Facebook shows appeals for help within hours of her
:06:34. > :06:44.disappearance. No doubt Twitter and Facebook helped. It brought people
:06:45. > :06:49.together right at the start. It was a big help at the start.
:06:49. > :06:51.volunteers came from everywhere. Many local people were given the day
:06:51. > :06:56.off by their employers in order to help with the search. Natural
:06:56. > :07:09.leaders came to the fore to ensure there was some kind of organisation
:07:09. > :07:12.as the whole community tried to find the little girl. Although we were
:07:12. > :07:16.searching for a little girl who was missing, I don't think I've had such
:07:16. > :07:22.a feeling before, everybody worked together. There were people who
:07:22. > :07:27.didn't know each other, but we all worked as a team. It was a strange
:07:27. > :07:31.feeling. At her school, staff, parents and pupils had been shaken
:07:31. > :07:40.by the little girl's disappearance. Some of the children were among
:07:40. > :07:52.those who saw April last before she disappeared. It hit us hard, the
:07:52. > :07:57.staff, parents and the pupils. They're very shocked. The search
:07:57. > :08:01.intensified as more volunteers turned up to help. Leaflets were
:08:01. > :08:04.distributed and police decided to enlist the help of professional
:08:04. > :08:07.search teams. It was the largest search of this kind in British
:08:08. > :08:22.policing history. Some people saw Mark Bridger the morning after the
:08:22. > :08:30.abduction. He said he had been looking for her. He went through the
:08:30. > :08:33.line of searchers. He said he'd been looking this morning. At the time,
:08:33. > :08:38.Bridger wasn't an official police suspect. During the search he was
:08:38. > :08:42.filmed by a police helicopter camera walking his dog near his home in
:08:42. > :08:49.Ceinws. During the hours that followed the police received
:08:49. > :08:54.information which led them in Mark Bridger's discretion. We had
:08:54. > :09:03.evidence from the child witnesses. We had information about the kind of
:09:03. > :09:12.vehicle it was. It was a left-hand drive, which is quite unusual in the
:09:12. > :09:17.Machynlleth area. We were investigating on the estate and the
:09:17. > :09:20.investigation was leading us towards Mark Bridger. At 3pm on the Tuesday
:09:20. > :09:24.afternoon the police went to his home to arrest him. The house was
:09:24. > :09:28.locked and they had to enter by force. According to the detectives
:09:28. > :09:32.who were there, the house was very warm and there was a strong smell of
:09:32. > :09:38.cleaning products. Traces of blood were also discovered in the living
:09:38. > :09:42.room and bathroom. Later the same day, Mark Bridger was arrested as he
:09:42. > :09:45.walked down a main road near Machynlleth. According to the police
:09:45. > :09:53.he immediately said he knew why he was being arrested and insisted it
:09:53. > :09:58.was an accident and that he didn't know where April was. He was
:09:58. > :10:02.emotional at the time. He's been emotional at different times
:10:02. > :10:09.throughout the case. It depends what's being said and what's
:10:09. > :10:13.happening. An arrest was made earlier today at 3. 30pm of a
:10:13. > :10:20.46-year-old local man on suspicion of abduction. He remains in police
:10:20. > :10:23.custody. He's at Aberystwyth police station. We will be interviewing him
:10:23. > :10:28.this evening. While Bridger was being interviewed the search
:10:28. > :10:32.continued. An appeal was made for information from anyone who had seen
:10:32. > :10:36.him the previous evening, the night April disappeared. Mark Bridger's
:10:36. > :10:41.Land Rover was central to the investigation. The morning after
:10:41. > :10:44.April dice peered Mark Bridger brought his Land Rover Discovery to
:10:44. > :10:51.this local garage in order to have work done on the engine. According
:10:51. > :10:55.to one member of staff, he seemed very emotional as he talked about
:10:55. > :10:58.all the searching for April. While in custody, Mark Bridger said he had
:10:58. > :11:04.knocked April over accidentally with his Land Rover and that he had put
:11:04. > :11:09.her in the car in order to go and find help. He said he had no memory
:11:09. > :11:15.what have happened after that. At the end of the second day, April's
:11:15. > :11:20.family decided to release a statement: " We are devastated and
:11:20. > :13:43.our lives have stopped. Please, please, if you have our little girl,
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:13:43. > :13:47.24 hours after April Jones went missing, a local man, Mark Bridger
:13:47. > :13:50.was arrested in connection with her disappearance. Here in Machynlleth
:13:50. > :13:57.there was still no sign of the little girl, despite the efforts to
:13:57. > :14:03.find her. Concern was increasing and the search intensified. There's a
:14:03. > :14:10.friend for little children above the at bright blue sky -- above the
:14:10. > :14:31.bright blue sky, a friend whose love will never die.
:14:31. > :14:35.the grace of God. The April Jones story was now appearing on TV
:14:35. > :14:39.channels around the world and the media was trying to update the story
:14:39. > :14:49.by the hour. Her mother appeared for the first time appealing for help to
:14:49. > :14:56.find her daughter. It's been 34 hours since April was taken from us.
:14:56. > :15:05.There must be somebody out there who knows where she is and can help the
:15:05. > :15:23.police find her. We are desperate for any news. April is only five
:15:23. > :15:26.years old. Please, please help find police concentrated on the river and
:15:26. > :15:36.its banks, however there was also concern that her body had been
:15:36. > :15:39.carried out to sea. The body of a young five-year-old girl, it had
:15:39. > :15:51.been thrown into the river during the floods, there were serious
:15:51. > :15:56.floods at the time. Within a day she would have been in the sea. There
:15:56. > :16:05.was a small chance she would wash up somewhere. I remember years ago, a
:16:05. > :16:11.little girl falling into a local river and her body was found in
:16:11. > :16:16.North Wales. That's going back a few years, though. Pink ribbons could be
:16:16. > :16:19.seen everywhere, in the school where April was a pupil, her mother asked
:16:19. > :16:22.everyone to wear pink because it was her daughter's favourite colour. It
:16:22. > :16:27.was a difficult time for the children and their parents. The
:16:27. > :16:35.colour was a sign of hope that April would return to school savoury.
:16:35. > :16:45.dealt with the children in a very sensitive way. My daughter came home
:16:45. > :16:49.from school and obviously asked questions, but the staff at the
:16:49. > :16:55.school kept them informed about what was going on. There wasn't a lot of
:16:55. > :17:02.fuss, not a lot of crying. It was very matter of fact. I suppose
:17:02. > :17:06.that's how a child's mind works. days after April's disappearance,
:17:06. > :17:24.hundreds of local people marched through the town to show support for
:17:24. > :17:30.take ton Aberystwyth Magistrates' Court where he received a hostile
:17:30. > :17:38.welcome. He was charged with April Jones's murder, abducting a child
:17:38. > :17:43.and intending to pervert the course of justice. The following evening, a
:17:43. > :17:49.week after April's disappearance, hundreds of Chinese lanterns were
:17:49. > :17:52.release into theed sky above the town of Machynlleth. The -- into the
:17:52. > :17:58.sky above the town of Machynlleth. The community was still hoping to
:17:58. > :18:02.find the little girl. But when the case against Mark
:18:02. > :18:06.Bridger started at Mold Crown Court, seven months after April Jones had
:18:06. > :18:09.dice peered, despite all the searching, there was no sign of her.
:18:09. > :18:13.Mark Bridger denied murdering her and said he killed her accidentally
:18:13. > :18:17.after knocking her over in his Land Rover and then he put her in the
:18:17. > :18:22.back of the Land Rover but had no memory of what happened then. Mark
:18:22. > :18:25.Bridger moved from Surrey to Wales over 20 years ago. He worked in
:18:25. > :18:31.several different places and had lived in a number of different
:18:31. > :18:35.places, including Porthmadog, and ballament after settling in
:18:35. > :18:40.Machynlleth he claimed he had been in the Army but admitted in court
:18:40. > :18:44.that was a lie. One of Mark Bridger's former landlords, who
:18:44. > :18:47.doesn't want to be named, was badly beaten by him. Mark Bridger received
:18:47. > :18:56.a four-month suspended sentence for the assault. The man said that
:18:56. > :19:02.Bridger was a violent man. He's a crafty, connive conniving so-and-so.
:19:02. > :19:08.He knew with my arthritis I could hard hardly pick a cup up at that
:19:08. > :19:17.time. He knew I was not in a good state. For some people who had known
:19:17. > :19:25.him for years, what had happened came as a shock. I thought he was a
:19:25. > :19:34.very tidy bloke, no problems. It surprised me when he left suddenly.
:19:34. > :19:43.He was a very pleasant and natural person. He enjoyed a joke. I never
:19:43. > :19:54.would have thought he could have done such a thing. I thought I knew
:19:54. > :19:58.him. But obviously I didn't. He kept chickens in the house and things
:19:58. > :20:06.like this. He was moved out of the house he was renting because of
:20:06. > :20:10.that. He didn't stand out as anyone different. He was a hard worker. I
:20:10. > :20:14.don't think he was ever out of work. However, a completely different
:20:14. > :20:19.person was portrayed in court. Bridger had a sexual motive. His
:20:19. > :20:24.relationship with his partner ended on the day that April disappeared.
:20:24. > :20:29.He also had pornographic images of children and pictures of Soham
:20:29. > :20:34.murder victims Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on his computer.
:20:34. > :20:39.became very obvious early on he had illegal and indecent pornographic
:20:39. > :20:49.images of children on his computer. They weren't the worst, but they
:20:49. > :20:57.were pretty bad. By looking at that and what had happened in the hours
:20:57. > :21:03.before the incident, it became obvious it was having an influence
:21:03. > :21:09.on his behaviour. Emma Janes is a forensic psychologist who has worked
:21:09. > :21:15.on a number of high profile cases. She spends much of her time working
:21:15. > :21:20.in the field of child protection. The images on his computer are very
:21:20. > :21:24.disturbing because there are images of local girls, girls that he knew.
:21:24. > :21:28.They were actually part of April's family. They were images of April
:21:28. > :21:33.herself. But there were also images of girls who had been victims of
:21:33. > :21:43.rape and murder. So this tells me Mark Bridger is not only obsessed
:21:43. > :21:46.with young girls. He is also -- he also has a penchant for dead girls.
:21:46. > :21:54.About Bridger's defence that he can't remember what he did with
:21:54. > :21:58.April? Defenders do sometimes Lee key components of their crimes, but
:21:58. > :22:03.has that happened to Bridger? I would urge extreme caution in
:22:03. > :22:09.believing a man who for 23 years has maintained he was in the military
:22:09. > :22:14.and he's never been in the military. He is clearly a fantasist. It also
:22:14. > :22:18.tells us he does remember that he ran April over. Throughout the
:22:18. > :22:23.trial, the emphasis on forensic evidence was important. Traces of
:22:23. > :22:29.blood at Bridger's home and no forensic traces of April on his Land
:22:29. > :22:36.Rover. The evidence in the house is very important. It gave a direct
:22:36. > :22:47.link because it proved she had been in the house. Her blood was found in
:22:47. > :22:57.the house. It gave the team a chance to go to Mark Bridger and say, well,
:22:57. > :23:04.she was in your house. We could ask him why he was saying something
:23:04. > :23:07.else. The forensic evidence was very important. Mark Bridger had indecent
:23:07. > :23:10.images of children on his computer but he had no history of sex
:23:10. > :23:14.offences against children, which is unusual in a case like this. It's
:23:14. > :23:17.now possible that the police will investigate again to ensure that
:23:18. > :23:21.Bridger didn't commit sexual offences against children in the
:23:21. > :23:32.past. There's nothing to say that he has committed other crimes, but
:23:32. > :23:37.maybe he has. The police will have to collect the evidence. If we get
:23:37. > :23:42.the chance to lock at another case, we will in the -- look at another
:23:42. > :23:45.case, we will in the usual way. Although Mark Bridger is facing life
:23:45. > :23:50.imprisonment for the murder of April Jones, her family don't know exactly
:23:50. > :23:54.how she died and what happened to her body. I would like to take this
:23:54. > :24:12.time to be with the family and try to come to terms with the loss of
:24:13. > :24:18.to come to terms with the loss of hold your baby? And say goodbye? And
:24:18. > :24:22.also, they've got no answers. What happens when you've got no answers
:24:22. > :24:28.is you fill those gaps with your imagination and given what they've
:24:28. > :24:32.had to listen to in court, the images they are seeing in court, I
:24:33. > :24:39.can only imagine what must be running through their minds. No
:24:39. > :24:42.parent should have to go through that, because it's torture. Back in
:24:42. > :24:47.Machynlleth, it will take a long time for the community to come to
:24:47. > :24:52.terms with what happened here on October 1 last year. Our priority
:24:52. > :24:57.over the next few months is to concentrate on the staff and pupils
:24:57. > :25:00.at the school as we look forward and at the school as we look forward and
:25:00. > :25:04.at the school as we look forward and not back. But it won't be easy. We