On October 1, 2012, 5-year-old April Jones disappeared outside her home in Wales. Ten years after the facts, his relatives spoke in a report broadcast on Channel 4.
It is a tragic story that took place on October 1, 2012, in Machynlleth, Wales. That day, april jones, a five-year-old girl disappeared while she was playing outside. Very quickly, a witness reported that he had seen him board a vehicle in his estate. Quickly, the police began a massive search to try to find her, Prime Minister David Cameron having himself launched an appeal to the public.
If the little girl’s body has never been found, a man named Mark Bridger was arrested the day after he disappeared. Aged 46, he had been tried for murder after the discovery of fragments of human bones in his fireplace, consistent with “a younger individual” and blood matching DNA by April Jones. The police had concluded that the young Welsh girl would have suffered injuries which she could not have survived.
April Jones relatives speak out 10 years after her murder
While the main suspect was found guilty of kidnapping and murder and labeled a pedophile, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Ten years after the events, his relatives spoke in a documentary to Channel 4. His mother Coral thus revealed the probable tragic conditions of the death of her daughter. “He mistreated her” she revealed before continuing: “They found his DNA in his pants. Then we thought he cut her to pieces and burned her, after all he did to her“.
For her part, her big sister Jazz revealed that Mark Bridger had images of her and April on his computer, in addition to many pornographic images. She also explained that the man tried to add it on facebook, a year before the death of his sister. After the tragedy, the family was completely broken up and Jazz and his little brother had to grow up without being able to count on their mother, who quickly plunged into a long depression.