Serial Killer Documentary - Mark Bridger

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1:03This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Rost untrimmed are 599 per pound, limit 4 roasts with membership wear applicable, and medium-ripe Hassovicados are 99 cents each, with membership wear applicable. Plus Kellogg cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces, selected varieties, or peppered farm goldfish, 5.9 to 8 ounces, are 190.9 each when you buy three. Limit 3 offers with membership wear applicable. Visit VonsorAlbertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. The entire community came together to help the police search for the missing girl.

2:23There was a real hope that April would be found alive. They were all thinking and of course her parents were thinking she is going to be found. There's no doubt in my mind that she is going to be found. But the search would be in vain. A local 46 year old man named Mark Bridger, who was known to the family, had abducted and murdered April. I said if you all see her later, not come to Kuntbellen, she'll live you back and that was the last one to go. Mark Bridger had undeniably become one of the world's most evil killers. It was a crime that shocked the nation and left a family heartbroken.

3:24In October 2012, five year old April Jones was abducted while playing outside her home on the Brinne-Gogger State in the small town of Mahankloth in mid Wales. As news of April's disappearance spread through the media, police and volunteers scoured the town and countryside. Kicks starting what was to become the biggest search for a missing person in the history of British policing. She's got to be around here somewhere. She's got to be. We will search and we'll go miles. We will travel miles to find her. But April's body would never be found. She'd been abducted and murdered by 46 year old Mark Bridger, a local man and well-known member of the community. April's sister Jasmine was just 16 years old at the time. I kind of just knew him. I remember dad knew him as they hired you, right? A quick sort of chat in the street about cars and bikes and that.

4:24When I was walking past, it was kind of quick hello and off you went. After Bridger's arrest, police searched his laptop and found indecent pictures of children and screenshots of young girls from the area taken from their social media accounts. Local reporter Kiran Jones reported on the case. When you look at what was found on Bridger's laptop, there are a few ways that this case could have been more troubling. When you see images of April Jones, it's clear that Bridger had this grotesque fascination with young girls, with those type of scenarios where young girls were abducted and killed and that absolutely is something that is condemning evidence. This killer's story begins over 50 years ago. Mark Bridger was born in Karshultan Suri on the 6th of November 1965. He grew up in a happy family environment with his parents in two siblings. There weren't any indications for me in terms of Mark Bridger's childhood or his adolescence

5:27that would indicate that he'd go on to do something horrendous. He did seem to be an altogether very average young lad and there were no red flags. His childhood was normal compared to most people. He came from a middle class family. His father was a police officer which he actually looked up to. But by 1984, 18-year-old Bridger had gone off the rails. He dropped out of college and struggled to hold a job down. All the jobs he got, he was a bit of a failure. So by the age of 20, this guy is like, he failed in school, he failed in college, he failed on whatever he wanted to do. In 1984, Bridger had his first brush with the law. He was convicted of theft and firearms offends. Basically, the story that he concocted around this was that he'd planned to go and fire an old pistol at a friend's farm and he'd stolen a car because it was too far for him to walk which does seem to be rather ludicrous. The prosecutions thought that actually something altogether

6:30different had gone on. He was planning to actually carry out an armed robbery with this weapon and this stolen car. So what Mark Bridger is doing from this point is he's getting used to lying, to being comfortable in a lie, to maintaining a lie and this is something he'll do throughout his life. Bridger was placed on probation for two years and he struggled to find work. He lived in a fantasy world, often telling people he had a military background. There were tales that he'd been a soldier, that he'd been a lifeguard, that he might have worked in a meat factory. And when you boiled it down, you realised that nobody really knew. He was wearing military fatigues, wearing camouflage jacket, camouflage trousers, water proof over trousers. Almost like he was, thought he was some kind of action man figure, you know, in driving about any land Rover projecting this image of himself as I don't know a brave father as someone who'd done his duty for his country and that wasn't a reality whatsoever. This is a very common thing that happened not only with killers,

7:32but it happens with other people as well. You tend to make up for your failings by creating things that will impress other people. You want people to not look at you like, okay dude, you're a loser get out. So he starts making these stories to try to bring himself up in front of others. Like I've been to the army, I did a tour of Vietnam or I did a tour of Iraq. Mark Bridger and secrecy do go hands in hands. You've got the Mark Bridger that he's presenting to the outside world who's this kind of heroic figure who's travelled the world who's this alpha male. But actually on the inside you got somebody who is fundamentally ashamed of themselves and that's something that they want to keep secret. He doesn't like who he is. He isn't the kind of man that he thinks he should be, but he's become so comfortable in inlying and elaborating and exaggerating that he just continues to do that. In 1990 Bridger moved away from his home in the south of England

8:32and relocated to Mahangcloth, a market town near the Welsh coast. Mahangcloth in North Wales in Paris is that it's a tiny rural community where everyone knows pretty much everybody else, where no one would appear to be threatening in the least. Bridger moved from job to job including working as a lifeguard and in an abattoir. I think Mark Bridger was somebody who had a significant history of failing at things, of failing at jobs, of failing at relationships and of developing a bit of a reputation in the local community. And I think what he was doing by moving to Mahangcloth was basically starting over wiping the slate clean and trying to control the amount of information that people had about him and his life. By the age of 20 Bridger had fathered his first child, but he'd left his partner before the birth to start another relationship. It was a pattern that would repeat itself. He has a total of six children with four different women,

9:35but none of those relationships seems to stick around. It was always there, gone, often with the women not really knowing a great deal about him. He doesn't manage to hold down a relationship in the same way, he doesn't manage to hold down a job and when he doesn't get what he wants, he tends to start using violence. In 2004, Bridger was charged with battery against his girlfriend, and just three years later, he was convicted of assault after punching a man in the face. By October 2012, Bridger was living alone. So he now didn't have a job, didn't have the girlfriend with the baby, and now got away from his father and mother. So it's a triple whim there. My guess is that he was feeling extremely low. So it could be that his interest for little kids started then. He does start to kind of withdraw and spend a lot of time on his own, spends a lot of time on his laptop computer, and on that computer, there are images of children in the local community who are

10:40known to him. There are pictures of child abuse imagery on his laptop. He's pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable and what's not acceptable of what's legal and what's illegal, and it's all becoming incredibly blurred. This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Rose untrimmed are 599 per pound, limit four roasts with membership were applicable, and medium-ripe half-sovacados are 99 cents each, with membership were applicable. Plus Kellogg's cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces, selected varieties, or peppered farm goldfish 5.98 ounces are 190.9 each when you buy three, limit three offers with membership were applicable. Visit vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home, or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having

11:44an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgentcare kit.com. This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Roast untrimmed are 599 per pound, limit four roasts with membership were applicable, and medium-ripe half-sovacados are 99 cents each, with membership were applicable. Plus Kellogg's cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces, selected varieties, or peppered farm goldfish 5.98 ounces are 190.9 each when you buy three, limit three offers with membership were applicable. Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Just a few miles across town from Mark Bridges Cottage, five-year-old April Jones could often be seen playing on the street in front of her family home. April's character is really bubbly, really happy, constantly smiling, constantly laughing. So if you ever feel sad or down,

12:46she'd basically be there and she'd make you laugh and then sit and it's got like a really contagious smile like you just see her smile so you don't want to smile. She's just a happy fun bubbly little girl. April's bike was a constant companion. For a young girl who had cerebral palsy she didn't let her disability slow her down. We taught her to ride the bike from her age so she'd be on a bike constantly so she'd never ever be without a bike. If she wanted to go out or if we were going to get down straight to the shop it was on her bike. You couldn't get it to walk it was on her bike and that was that. On Monday, October the 1st 2012 the two sisters were together at the local swimming pool with their mum, Coral. Every Monday April you get to the lesson so I'd always meet Mum and April in the lesson so when I got off the bus, taking people in to get changed, and then to the lesson and on the meter afterwards. So she's finished swimming lesson and it's about half an hour.

13:47Went in, got a change, come back out she's walking out, went back home. I went to the youth club and I said I live here I'll see you later and I'll come to take you into bed and I'll finish and I'll live you back and that was the last one sort of. On the evening of October the 1st 2012, five-year-old April Jones was playing outside the front of her family home on the Brynnygog estate in Mahankloth mid Wales. April's mum and dad, Coral and Paul had just returned from a parents evening at the local school. It was still like that day. So I went to the April out a little bit longer because of the good school report and there was three of their friends and her and her other friends cycled their other friend back home and then it was just her and her friend they were coming back. At around 7.20pm, Coral grew concerned that her daughter had been out a little too long. She sent April's brother out to look for her.

14:48And then Harley came running back with the bike saying she's gone she's not there, she's been taken and then that's when it kind of all escalated. So you think something's me? Hello. And what makes you think and the door has been turned down? She's gone off in a car with somebody from the picture in the car with something. So what's the name of the child that's gone missing? April Jones. How old is she? Five. Detective Superintendent Reg Bevan was part of the investigation team. When the call first comes in, it's a crime and action and effect. So April's mum makes the initial call to say there are daughters gone off in a vehicle. That is treated as an abduction kidnap and the initial response is very much to secure the area, try to identify the last person to see it and identify people who were in the area at the time.

15:53Detectives immediately questioned April's young friends who'd seen her get into a car with a stranger. They gave this basic description of a small front and a large rear to a vehicle and they couldn't be more specific but these are children, young children. But it was key piece of evidence, particularly when they talk about how she got into the right hand side and they were quite sure of that. I think the real crucial detail that they were able to drill down very, very quickly was that April may have gone into what would ordinarily appear to be the driver's side which indicated perhaps that it was a left hand drive vehicle. I think that was very, very quickly seized upon us, something that was unusual, something that could perhaps be decisive in the investigation. Because other than that initially there didn't seem to be a great deal for the police to go on because she'd been seized very, very quickly, very, very discreetly with only children as witnesses. Meanwhile the local community in Mahankluth rallied round the Jones family and assisted the police

16:59in their search for April. News of her disappearance quickly spread on social media. I'm really, this searchers' small town you just wouldn't think of it. I think we have a population about two and a half thousand maybe a bit more maybe a bit less. Five, six, seven. The amount of people that came out of the houses and just started searching of all sort of ages, all sorts of ages. It was just incredible to even see like they've all kind of come out just look for my sister and it's kind of breathtaking in the way to see the amount of people and how close Makhers have close communities. From the very first day I think the police were using the word unprecedented in terms of the scale of the search and that was certainly true. I remember arriving in Mahankluth and immediately hearing the constant swashing of rotor blades seeing boat teams coming in from mountain rescue scene cavers every conceivable emergency service, every conceivable specialism was there very, very quickly and then you had

18:00public element of the search where people were splitting into small teams dividing up an area on a map and going out and fanning out and covering what area they could. People at the most rudimentary level going out with torches and calling a clause name. So you had an unprecedented police search involving I think in the end dozens and dozens of forces covering dozens and dozens of square kilometers. Despite an exhaustive search by police and volunteers stretching into the early hours April could not be found the small town was in shock. I remember one of the people I spoke to said it can't have been somebody from the area because we all know one another, we all trust one another. It almost defies belief when that sort of thing happens in a small rural community because somehow you immediately think that everybody knows everybody else's business and that it's impossible. How can a child disappear into thin air in a tiny Welsh village

19:01in which everybody pretty much knows everybody else. But that's the devil in plain sight, isn't it? Witness reports of a distinctive blue land Rover on the Brinneighogger State gave the police a crucial lead in their investigation. It was said on the night that she got into a car that was on the wrong side and straight away everyone knew we were looking for a left hand drive and there's only one person in Montleth who had a left hand drive and that was Mark Bridger. Where we used to live he kind of lives like at the end sort of just a bit of everyone and he's kind of oh hi a year right in the street sort of thing. I didn't know his name, I just knew his face, he's always in combat arouses always. Mark Bridger was named by some of the residents living locally in the House Tires investigation and then once he's been named and when you compare the description given by the

20:03children of his vehicle of the vehicle that April Jones got into and then some work that we were able to do behind the scenes with the analysts we were able to link at Land Rover Discovery to Mark Bridger and then all of a sudden things start to fall into place. The following morning choose the October the second the small market town of Mahankloth awoke to a media swarm. April had now been missing for 12 hours. I've been seeing this from the very beginning we still have hope. It was a fast moving very emotional place people were desperate people were filled with hope and people were galvanised to go out there and to find someone and those people that were there generally beyond perhaps knowing the family or knowing the area or knowing them in passing had no personal connection in a lot of cases they wanted to go out and find a vulnerable child

21:03and there was lots and lots of hope and just sheer determination people saying I can't sleep, I can't go home, I can't rest, I can't do anything while I know that somebody is out there and that was incredibly stark and incredibly moving. The police were desperate to find Mark Bridger and they soon had a major breakthrough. His distinctive blue Land Rover had been found at a local garage. It had been dropped off that same morning. It didn't really disclose too much about his demeanor other than he dropped it off suggesting it had been involved in an accident and they were quite happy to have a look at it and from what they'd seen it didn't appear to have been involved in any kind of road accident. The police continued their manhunt. They hoped that finding Bridger would lead them directly to April. We were still hoping that she'd be alive so it was very much speeders of the essence so you had to ensure that you were doing as much as you could as quickly as

22:06you could in an effort to identify where she was. Having dropped off his car the morning after April's disappearance Bridger met a search party looking for the five-year-old. He was hiding in plain sight. Mark Bridger had effectively stumbled upon a search party and wished them good luck and claimed to have been out searching all night which was when you reflect on that deeply, deeply troubling, deeply shocking. Despite it being a small town, detectives had discovered multiple addresses linked to Bridger whose transient lifestyle had made finding him extremely difficult. We had some previous addresses that we knew he'd lived at or we may still be living at and we were sending teams of officers around to those addresses to try to locate April. On some occasions there was no answer. We were forcing entry into these properties with quickly searching in a hope to find in it so it was a very fast-paced, fast-moving investigation

23:06to try to locate him. As the search for April entered its 19th hour her oldest sister Jasmine began to fear the worst. Anyway, I've gone out back alive. Something in me just said she's not going to come home alive. By 3 p.m. on Tuesday, October the 2nd, 2012, five-year-old April Jones had been missing for almost 20 hours. Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgentcare kit.com slash blue urgentcare kit.com slash blue. You're on a job in a meeting slammed and a customer calls. If nobody picks up, that call goes to

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25:11getting into his car the previous evening. The police had finally traced Bridger to a cottage called Mount Pleasant on the outskirts of Mahanklif. They forced their way through the door. So when the first officer's driver Bridger's home is fire as lit, it is very hot in there. There is a strong smell of detergent bleach cleaning fluid and the initial forensic examination then starts at that point, but it's clearly looking more and more suspicious that something has happened at that address. Just half an hour later at 3.30 pm, Mark Bridger was spotted by a patrol car on the A487 road heading back into Mahanklif on foot. So when he is seen walking down the road, officers pull up alongside him and speak to him, confirm that it is Mark Bridger and he immediately makes a disclosure to the officers that April is dead and that he's run over it by accident.

26:15I think Mark Bridger's selfishness really did come out when he was picked up by the police and he said to them, I need to talk and the police said, okay, but can you wait until we get to the station? And he didn't. He just proceeded to basically engage in this lengthy monologue about what had gone on about how he felt and basically when he was saying, I need to talk. He wasn't just saying that. He was saying, you need to listen to me. It was another way of him trying to exert control over other people. It's something he's always doing all of the time. In the police car on the way to the station, Bridger continued to tell officers his side of the story. He gave a very strange, fantastical description of what had really happened to April. I ran over with my land Rover and she was underneath the wheels and I didn't know what to do and there was no pulse and no sign and she wasn't moving and well any normal person surely would have ran the police or the hospital 999 at that instant wouldn't they? Well you see I didn't know and I didn't mean to. I mean I was going to just

27:22lean her up against something. Well she wasn't lent up against something she disappeared. He created the stories in his head. Maybe he even believed it himself. You know, some people will do, some people, they are so desperate to be accepted by others and in life that they will create the stories and they are so into it and it's so desperate that they will believe those stories themselves and that's where you get the compose of liars. So he might have even believed himself because he is actually telling those stories to the police. He seems to think that what's happened is quite blurry but what he does remember is that he drove off with her body somewhere but after that he says it's all blank I can't remember what happened. Bridger's bizarre account of events led detectives to believe he might be lying and that April may still be alive somewhere. So although when Markbridge is first detained he says that he's killed it he's run over it. We obviously hadn't found a body so there's still some hope

28:26that you may be able to find her alive. So the thrust of searching as many places as possible and continuing to search the countryside didn't stop. The following day the 3rd of October 2012 April's mother Coral Jones appeared in front of the world's press. Her daughter had been missing for over 36 hours and so the atmosphere in the room awaiting that was quite extraordinary and when the door opened there was the briefest sense I remember even now of complete silence, complete shock, complete captivation almost and as Coral walked into the room then obviously the noise began the shutters of the cameras began to click to see up close merely a few feet away somebody going through what Coral and her family were going through was astonishingly painful. It's been 36 hours since April was taken from us and this is someone who knows where he is

29:37and can't help but please find her. Where at the address for any news? April is only five years old. Please please help find her. When you see first hand the impact it has on the family you can only imagine what Coral and the rest of the family have gone through but it's when you see them face to face and you're sitting next to them in some of those press conferences it is heartbreaking and you know it just makes you more resolved to try to do all you can. But as police forensic teams began an intricate search at Bridges' home it soon became clear that April Jones would never be found alive. We do know from the detailed forensic examination of his home is that she probably died there we found her blood at that address significant amounts of her blood clearly he'd attempted to clean the place which is part of the reason the initial

30:43officers found that overwhelming smell of bleach he'd straddle clean up several parts of the house there was blood in the lounge and in the bathrooms and the wood burner was lit we believe because he was looking to dispose of incriminating evidence. From a policing and prosecution perspective the key piece of evidence in a murder inquiry is almost certainly going to be having a body and they didn't have that in this instance so they were very very reliant on not just on the human witnesses that they had which were in many cases friends of April's who'd seen the abduction take place but incredibly up to date forensic technology which enabled them to pinpoint fragments of bone found in the wood burner at Mark Bridges house although there was bone it was burned to such a degree that we weren't able to match it forensically through any DNA profile albeit we know it is human from the pathologist and the scientist that examined it subsequently.

31:44Forensic teams also found a burnt boning knife in Bridges' home that disturbing discovery at Mount Pleasant Cottage shocked the entire community. They're almost certainly was no longer any chance of a happy ending to this story of positive outcome of April coming home to her family and that was very very powerful and when you saw the tiredness that people understandably felt two three days of hardworking searching not going to sleep to have everything that they'd worked for crushed in that way was deeply deeply disperting for everybody and it was clear quite quickly that they needed to be then that further little bit of perspective and of rowing back a little bit from the media and from everybody that was there just to give people not just the family but the people in the town that have been so affected that little bit of space and that little bit of freedom to to grieve and to process everything that had happened. For a while I was searching for April and

32:45they were hoping she'd come back alive and I think it was a couple days later or something rather that it turned into a search for the body and I kind of knew that it must have been some horrific crime for them to search into a body and then in the sort of town we live in where there's rivers flowing through there's forestry everywhere I kind of knew it must have been something quite bad of why you kind of would have found a child's body around the sort of area straight away. After three days of questioning on October the 5th 2012, Mark Bridger was arrested on suspicion of murder but the 46-year-old continued to protest his innocence. In interview he's very mature fact in his answers and he says that he's run over her accidentally and that he gets out of his vehicle and sees that he's run over her and he picks her up and he thinks believe she's dead he does try resuscitating her but at each stage when you're then able to rebut some of his story

33:50by saying well there's no forensic evidence to show that she's come to any harm in your vehicle or we could put her inside the vehicle with fingerprints he would always suggest what she wasn't bleeding so when you're asking well how do you know that she's dead then you know he was saying you know well I knew she was dead. His story didn't make sense. The reason why people hold back information about murder can vary from one case to the next but for me the central element is often control when somebody has been convicted of murder when somebody has been sentenced to a very lengthy term in prison they don't have control over many things at all the one thing that they do have control over is the knowledge of of what happened or of what they did to their victim of where their victim is and often that's something that people won't want to part with very easily. Nothing that he said we could back up with any evidence or forensic recoveries. In fact everything led quite the country he had abducted April from outside near to her home and had driven her

34:55back to his house immediately and she probably met her and very soon after that. He could have been curbing it for a long time but on that day he overpowered them and once she was in the car then that was it then he goes into a different state of mind and then he can't stop it anymore it will be very hard for him to stop. The following day October the 6th marked bridge was charged with the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones. It's an absolute shock with it and you don't know what to think and then you start in your mind question and do you really know someone you know you could have known this person like 15-20 years but then you come to the fact of do you really know them. And so the shock to the community and of course to April's parents to realise that not only were they living with but they knew the man who abducted their daughter is even more terrifying.

35:58The search for April's body continued for six months until the police called it off in April 2013. The fact that no body was found didn't alter the course of the investigation you know we're still treating her as a murder there's a huge impact on the family obviously but the search continued for months and months afterwards because we had to be sure that in that area that we'd searched everywhere we possibly could in an effort to find her. So although we're confident that she probably died in his house what he's done with the body after that only he knows. Hi this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything that's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit it includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses so if you wake up sick at home or on the road you already have what you need it's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home say 45 dollars with code blue at

37:02urgentcare kit.com slash blue urgentcare kit.com slash blue. On April the 29th 2013 the trial of Mark Bridger began at Mold Crown Court. The 47 year old was charged with the abduction and murder of five year old schoolgirl April Jones. Seven months after her disappearance her body had still not been found. There was real hope that the truth of what happened to her would emerge during proceedings. I think from the very first moment that Mark Bridger appeared in court he was a pathetic figure somebody that appeared to be feeling sorry for himself that almost couldn't realize the gravity of the situation in which he found himself as though he somehow was the victim when absolutely he wasn't he was the offender he was the person that had done this barbaric inhuman thing. He just kind of hung his head in shame he never once looked over ever like not even

38:05slight ground to his eyes didn't move his head just kind of hung his head in shame. Bridger pleaded not guilty he was sticking to the same story he told police back in October 2012 claiming that April's death was an accident. Mark Bridger used this cloak of amnesia almost to say that he couldn't it couldn't account for what had happened he accepted that he was behind April's death but not that he intended in some way to kill her and it concocted this fanciiful story about potentially having knocked her over with his car something that was never born out in any of the evidence somehow claiming that he then couldn't recall what he'd done with her body that he was drinking lots and that the whole thing could have been a nightmare this was someone that was prepared to go as low as they possibly could desperately trying to save their own skin in view of all evidence to the contrary. So at the beginning I was kind of shocked like

39:05oh he'd hit her off the bike but she knows well too well not to go near the road when there's a car she knows this really well and she knows to look left and right and everything we've always always talked about from a young age and then he started saying he panicked and he just drove off with her and he's kind of he's got kids around her ages around April's age so kind of think you wouldn't panicked you'd kind of in a sense as a parent you'd know what to do so towards the end of it you're just like oh shut up just shut up really you're just making yourself look for during the trial police helicopter footage emerged from the morning after April's abduction it showed a calm looking Bridger he's seen kind of casually out walking his dog as if nothing had happened and I think what we've got here is somebody who's who's struggling to figure out what is the appropriate way to behave here what are people going to be looking out for what are they going to be expecting to see most normal people would look up at the helicopter and wonder

40:09what was going on he knew exactly what was going on he knew exactly what he'd done with April and at that stage you know the net was closing in on him and he was he was trying to blend in on the 15th of May the jury was shown evidence from Mark Bridger's laptop it was a key moment in the trial Bridger had begun to assemble a collection of particularly nasty child pornography as well as photographs of local children including April and her elder sister at his trial the prosecution made a considerable play of the fact that these images were on his computer and suggested that he may not have been seeking specifically to groom April it could have been another member of the family or another of the girls that were on his computer but that he was certainly seeking to groom someone some young girl there are two types of people or offenders that would look at different kinds

41:12of things on the internet pornography for example the first type is the people who will be satisfied by the photographs by the films by reading stories maybe but at the end of it that's it it's like that's good enough they can turn off the computer and they forget about it but there are certain other types and Bridger falls into this category is that at the end that is not enough he'd also been looking at website reports of previous child abductions and you start in the build a picture now of a pedophile a dangerous evil man who for whatever reason has gone from minor offending and tipped over into you know the most serious crime on May the 30th 2013 the jury took just four hours to unanimously find Mark Bridger guilty of murdering April Jones judge mr justice Griffith Williams sentenced him to life imprisonment with a whole life order

42:14he was immediately sent to Wakefield prison he will never be free again for them to stay around say life and never to be released from prison it's like wow so it's just you can't explain the feeling of it because it's good that he's never going to be released from prison and he's never going to be able to hurt anyone again well when Bridger was sentenced the judge referred to him as a pathological liar and a pedophile and I think both of those descriptions are accurate Mark Bridger was somebody who was very comfortable in a lie he would lie as easily as he would breathe and if you look at some of his behavior in the final months before April's death he was collecting images of children on his laptop he was engaging in behavior that was incredibly bizarre so he was a pathological liar he was a pedophile he was a very dangerous man the murder of April Jones ruined the lives of not just her family but an entire community

43:16the Jones family were very clearly a respectable family people that were well-known in their community and there was that shock element this could be anyone's child it wasn't somebody that was put in harm's way it was a girl who was playing on her bike outside her home with her parents blessing like she would every day they would call her in for a dinner she would sit at home and tell them about her day at school and how well she was doing everyone can identify with that whether they have children or not it's a brutal thing that rips out a family's heart and that really really touches people there was people that we hadn't spoken to who had little kids around sorts of age and they were really affected on the estate we live kids were outside all time playing and then you didn't see kid for two years outside playing in a final cruel act mark bridge has never revealed the location of April's body I think the key question for many people in

44:20this case is will mark bridge ever give up the information about what happened to April Jones about where she is to to enable her parents to to basically say goodbye to her properly and unfortunately I don't think he will I think mark bridge or is somebody who will always have self preservation as his number one priority and he's just simply not going to to put himself in a position where he's got no power left it's difficult not getting a body back because when you have a body back you can lay them to rest you can say you're goodbyes but when you've got bone fragments and ash it's not it's not the same at all because you can't say you're fine like a bice and mark bridge is such a pathological liar and he believes his own lies he believes he sound the truth these he's never going to tell you he's never going to say what really happened that day that evening and what he's done with the body and you kind of have to come to terms with

45:24that and you kind of have to accept that you're never going to be able to fully say goodbye and you're never going to be able to fully lay April to rest on November the 17th 2014 Jasmine Jones stood alongside her parents and watched as the probable site of April's murder Mount Pleasant Cottage was bulldozed to the ground you've changed you've completely changed you're never going to be who you were I mean when I have kids I could be completely different to whether to what I thought I was going to be because of this event you've just completely changed you're never going to be who you were and the demons you've had to fight along the way it is they've changed you beat for the battery for the worse but the positive thing is we've come out stronger we've come out we've stood together because the community have gathered around and been so positive in the face of such a grotesque crime it's not been something that's been allowed to define them April Jones is not remembered for how she

46:28died but for being a beautiful young girl who was happiest in her community and in her family so what happened to her will always be a part of the history of Mcunleth that will never be laid to rest or put to one side but the fact that people do not want to be defined by this do not want to be remembered purely as the place where this act of evil happened will mean that they can go on and they can grow and they can develop Mark Bridger is a perverted killer who selfishly snatched and killed an innocent five-year-old for his own gratification he has constantly lied and still refuses to admit where April is buried Bridger has shown no remorse for his actions or explain the reasons for the murder we should forget his name and instead remember the smiling face of April Jones the girl whose life he cruelly took away at such a young age

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