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of murdering April Jones. The man described as a liar was found guilty

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of abducting and murdering the five-year-old girl and intending to

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pervert the course of justice. The court heard he lied to save his own

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skin and that he had a sexual motive. April Jones's family have

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welcomed the sentence and verdict but still don't know what has

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happened to her body. We are relieved Mark Bridger has been found

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guilty of our beautiful daughter April. April will be forever in our

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hearts and we are moved from the overwhelming support from all

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eastern the -- over the world. only person who can tell you exactly

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The case lasted four-and-a-half weeks and 47-year-old Mark Bridger

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has been found guilty of murdering April Jones in October last year.

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The court heard details about traces of blood and bone in Mark Bridger's

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home, but nobody apart from Bridger himself knows exactly how April died

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and where her body is. April's parents have regularly attended

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court during the last few weeks to listen to the case against Mark

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Bridger. They listened to all the evidence in order to try to

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understand what happened to their little girl. In the end, they were

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not willing to do an interview but they did release a statement:

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would like to thank our family and friends and the community of

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Machynlleth. We did not know how we were going to get through the last

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seven months since April was taken from us. For the police and Crown

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prosecution service, the verdict closed a very sad chapter of the

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months of investigations. It's very sad but I remember the bravery of

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Coral and the family as they went April Jones disappeared. A

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five-year-old girl who was playing outside just a stone's throw away

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from her home. On that Monday afternoon, Mark Bridger had been at

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this school for a parents evening. April's mother was here a bit

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earlier. Later, after going home, April asked if she could go out and

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play. Her parents refueled to begin with, but after -- refused to begin

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with, but after she persisted they allowed it. Earlier the same

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evening, April attended a swimming lesson at Bro Ddyfi Leisure Centre

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in Machynlleth and these are the final pictures of her before she

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returned home for tea. At around 7pm, April went outside to play with

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her friends, the last person to see April, apart from Mark Bridger was

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her seven-year-old friend who told the court she had seen April getting

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into Bridger's car and that she was smiling. It was a big basis to the

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investigation at the time. As the trial went on she was in a very

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difficult position, never mind a seven-year-old child.

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She responded to the pressure incredibly honest. Her evidence was

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accurate and honest. In the court, the jury heard the emergency phone

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call by Coral Jones at 7. 30pm that evening. She said, " My daughter has

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been kidnapped. ." By now Coral could hardly breathe. The phone was

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handed to a friend. " She's gone off in a car with somebody. : What's the

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name of the child that's gone missing? April Jones.How old is

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she? Five. However, as Coral made the phone call, Bridger's Land Rover

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was caught on CCTV camera in a local garage. He was on his way out of

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Machynlleth and heading home. As the news of April's disappearance

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spread, the police, her parents and friends went from door to door

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making inquiries. A couple of girls came around to my house to ask if I

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had seen a young girl in a purple anorak. I hadn't seen her. It was

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obvious then that hundreds of people were looking for her. As that first

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night went on, the volunteers continued to arrive to help with the

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search. That is what something like this does. You can just look around

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at who is here tonight, so many different ages. We are all here to

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used at the beginning of the search. There were appeals on YouTube and

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Facebook and part of the search was coordinated with text messages and

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Twitter. This page on Facebook shows appeals for help within hours of her

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disappearance. No doubt Twitter and Facebook helped. It brought people

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together right at the start. It was a big help at the start.

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volunteers came from everywhere. Many local people were given the day

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off by their employers in order to help with the search. Natural

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leaders came to the fore to ensure there was some kind of organisation

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as the whole community tried to find the little girl. Although we were

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searching for a little girl who was missing, I don't think I've had such

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a feeling before, everybody worked together. There were people who

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didn't know each other, but we all worked as a team. It was a strange

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feeling. At her school, staff, parents and pupils had been shaken

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by the little girl's disappearance. Some of the children were among

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those who saw April last before she disappeared. It hit us hard, the

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staff, parents and the pupils. They're very shocked. The search

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intensified as more volunteers turned up to help. Leaflets were

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distributed and police decided to enlist the help of professional

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search teams. It was the largest search of this kind in British

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policing history. Some people saw Mark Bridger the morning after the

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abduction. He said he had been looking for her. He went through the

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line of searchers. He said he'd been looking this morning. At the time,

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Bridger wasn't an official police suspect. During the search he was

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filmed by a police helicopter camera walking his dog near his home in

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Ceinws. During the hours that followed the police received

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information which led them in Mark Bridger's discretion. We had

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evidence from the child witnesses. We had information about the kind of

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vehicle it was. It was a left-hand drive, which is quite unusual in the

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Machynlleth area. We were investigating on the estate and the

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investigation was leading us towards Mark Bridger. At 3pm on the Tuesday

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afternoon the police went to his home to arrest him. The house was

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locked and they had to enter by force. According to the detectives

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who were there, the house was very warm and there was a strong smell of

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cleaning products. Traces of blood were also discovered in the living

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room and bathroom. Later the same day, Mark Bridger was arrested as he

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walked down a main road near Machynlleth. According to the police

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he immediately said he knew why he was being arrested and insisted it

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was an accident and that he didn't know where April was. He was

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emotional at the time. He's been emotional at different times

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throughout the case. It depends what's being said and what's

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happening. An arrest was made earlier today at 3. 30pm of a

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46-year-old local man on suspicion of abduction. He remains in police

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custody. He's at Aberystwyth police station. We will be interviewing him

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this evening. While Bridger was being interviewed the search

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continued. An appeal was made for information from anyone who had seen

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him the previous evening, the night April disappeared. Mark Bridger's

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Land Rover was central to the investigation. The morning after

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April dice peered Mark Bridger brought his Land Rover Discovery to

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this local garage in order to have work done on the engine. According

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to one member of staff, he seemed very emotional as he talked about

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all the searching for April. While in custody, Mark Bridger said he had

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knocked April over accidentally with his Land Rover and that he had put

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her in the car in order to go and find help. He said he had no memory

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what have happened after that. At the end of the second day, April's

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family decided to release a statement: " We are devastated and

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our lives have stopped. Please, please, if you have our little girl,

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24 hours after April Jones went missing, a local man, Mark Bridger

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was arrested in connection with her disappearance. Here in Machynlleth

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there was still no sign of the little girl, despite the efforts to

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find her. Concern was increasing and the search intensified. There's a

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friend for little children above the at bright blue sky -- above the

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bright blue sky, a friend whose love will never die.

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the grace of God. The April Jones story was now appearing on TV

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channels around the world and the media was trying to update the story

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by the hour. Her mother appeared for the first time appealing for help to

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find her daughter. It's been 34 hours since April was taken from us.

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There must be somebody out there who knows where she is and can help the

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police find her. We are desperate for any news. April is only five

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years old. Please, please help find police concentrated on the river and

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its banks, however there was also concern that her body had been

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carried out to sea. The body of a young five-year-old girl, it had

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been thrown into the river during the floods, there were serious

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floods at the time. Within a day she would have been in the sea. There

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was a small chance she would wash up somewhere. I remember years ago, a

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little girl falling into a local river and her body was found in

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North Wales. That's going back a few years, though. Pink ribbons could be

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seen everywhere, in the school where April was a pupil, her mother asked

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everyone to wear pink because it was her daughter's favourite colour. It

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was a difficult time for the children and their parents. The

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colour was a sign of hope that April would return to school savoury.

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dealt with the children in a very sensitive way. My daughter came home

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from school and obviously asked questions, but the staff at the

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school kept them informed about what was going on. There wasn't a lot of

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fuss, not a lot of crying. It was very matter of fact. I suppose

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that's how a child's mind works. days after April's disappearance,

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hundreds of local people marched through the town to show support for

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take ton Aberystwyth Magistrates' Court where he received a hostile

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welcome. He was charged with April Jones's murder, abducting a child

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and intending to pervert the course of justice. The following evening, a

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week after April's disappearance, hundreds of Chinese lanterns were

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release into theed sky above the town of Machynlleth. The -- into the

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sky above the town of Machynlleth. The community was still hoping to

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find the little girl. But when the case against Mark

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Bridger started at Mold Crown Court, seven months after April Jones had

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dice peered, despite all the searching, there was no sign of her.

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Mark Bridger denied murdering her and said he killed her accidentally

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after knocking her over in his Land Rover and then he put her in the

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back of the Land Rover but had no memory of what happened then. Mark

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Bridger moved from Surrey to Wales over 20 years ago. He worked in

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several different places and had lived in a number of different

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places, including Porthmadog, and ballament after settling in

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Machynlleth he claimed he had been in the Army but admitted in court

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that was a lie. One of Mark Bridger's former landlords, who

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doesn't want to be named, was badly beaten by him. Mark Bridger received

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a four-month suspended sentence for the assault. The man said that

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Bridger was a violent man. He's a crafty, connive conniving so-and-so.

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He knew with my arthritis I could hard hardly pick a cup up at that

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time. He knew I was not in a good state. For some people who had known

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him for years, what had happened came as a shock. I thought he was a

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very tidy bloke, no problems. It surprised me when he left suddenly.

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He was a very pleasant and natural person. He enjoyed a joke. I never

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would have thought he could have done such a thing. I thought I knew

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him. But obviously I didn't. He kept chickens in the house and things

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like this. He was moved out of the house he was renting because of

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that. He didn't stand out as anyone different. He was a hard worker. I

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don't think he was ever out of work. However, a completely different

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person was portrayed in court. Bridger had a sexual motive. His

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relationship with his partner ended on the day that April disappeared.

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He also had pornographic images of children and pictures of Soham

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murder victims Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on his computer.

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became very obvious early on he had illegal and indecent pornographic

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images of children on his computer. They weren't the worst, but they

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were pretty bad. By looking at that and what had happened in the hours

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before the incident, it became obvious it was having an influence

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on his behaviour. Emma Janes is a forensic psychologist who has worked

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on a number of high profile cases. She spends much of her time working

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in the field of child protection. The images on his computer are very

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disturbing because there are images of local girls, girls that he knew.

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They were actually part of April's family. They were images of April

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herself. But there were also images of girls who had been victims of

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rape and murder. So this tells me Mark Bridger is not only obsessed

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with young girls. He is also -- he also has a penchant for dead girls.

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About Bridger's defence that he can't remember what he did with

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April? Defenders do sometimes Lee key components of their crimes, but

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has that happened to Bridger? I would urge extreme caution in

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believing a man who for 23 years has maintained he was in the military

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and he's never been in the military. He is clearly a fantasist. It also

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tells us he does remember that he ran April over. Throughout the

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trial, the emphasis on forensic evidence was important. Traces of

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blood at Bridger's home and no forensic traces of April on his Land

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Rover. The evidence in the house is very important. It gave a direct

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link because it proved she had been in the house. Her blood was found in

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the house. It gave the team a chance to go to Mark Bridger and say, well,

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she was in your house. We could ask him why he was saying something

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else. The forensic evidence was very important. Mark Bridger had indecent

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images of children on his computer but he had no history of sex

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offences against children, which is unusual in a case like this. It's

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now possible that the police will investigate again to ensure that

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Bridger didn't commit sexual offences against children in the

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past. There's nothing to say that he has committed other crimes, but

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maybe he has. The police will have to collect the evidence. If we get

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the chance to lock at another case, we will in the -- look at another

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case, we will in the usual way. Although Mark Bridger is facing life

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imprisonment for the murder of April Jones, her family don't know exactly

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how she died and what happened to her body. I would like to take this

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time to be with the family and try to come to terms with the loss of

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to come to terms with the loss of hold your baby? And say goodbye? And

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also, they've got no answers. What happens when you've got no answers

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is you fill those gaps with your imagination and given what they've

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had to listen to in court, the images they are seeing in court, I

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can only imagine what must be running through their minds. No

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parent should have to go through that, because it's torture. Back in

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Machynlleth, it will take a long time for the community to come to

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terms with what happened here on October 1 last year. Our priority

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over the next few months is to concentrate on the staff and pupils

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at the school as we look forward and at the school as we look forward and

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at the school as we look forward and not back. But it won't be easy. We

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