April Jones

What happened to April Jones? When the five-year-old girl went missing and how killer Mark Bridger was caught. April disappeared on 1 October 2012 after being ...

When he moved to Machynlleth he claimed he used to be in the Army, but this was proven to be false. He fathered six children by four women, and was married to the mother of two of his children for a number of years before getting divorced. He had a number of convictions for minor offences dating back to the mid-80s. On 14 January 2013 Bridger pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering April, but accepted that he was “probably responsible” for her death. The police search for her body was headline news – and yet to this day it has never been found. The first officer on the scene spoke to a child witness who reported seeing April getting into a grey vehicle.

What happened to April Jones? Find out the disturbing story of the little girl who went missing from Machynlleth ahead of Channel 4's documentary…

On 1 October 2012, April Jones, who had a mild form of cerebral palsy, vanished from outside of her home in Machynlleth, Wales. Find out what happened to the little girl here… MORE:

April Jones, a five year old girl, disappeared from her home in Machynlleth, Wales in October 2012, launching the largest missing person search in UK ...

A 46-year-old English man, Mark Bridger, was subsequently arrested. The five year old girl had been seen getting into a vehicle near her family home. A [suspect](/topic/suspect) was soon found but the search for April dragged on for months.

April went missing from her home in Machynlleth in 2012 and her body was never recovered as Channel Four show set to delve into horror crime that disgusted ...

However, the jury took just a day to return a guilty verdict with the judge calling him a "paedophile". Blood in the home was also found to be a DNA match for April. Bridger was charged with child abduction, murder, and attempting to pervert the course of justice on October 6. Bridger claimed he had accidentally run April over and that he had no recollection of what he did with her body due to panic and alcohol. But this is disputed by police who believe he scattered her remains in the countryside. He had a string of convictions dating back to the mid 80s. The first episode on Monday will focus on the day April went missing and how people from all over the UK descended on her hometown of Machynlleth in north Wales to help with the search. The father of six children to four women, Bridger was arrested less than 24 hours after April's disappearance. Over the following days hundreds of people joined the search teams but the case was designated a murder inquiry on October 5. The search went on for over six months and was eventually called off on April 22, 2013. April, who suffered from cerebral palsy, had been out playing with a friend on the night of October 1, 2012. [abduction and murder ](https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/all-about/true-crime)of April Jones, the five-year-old girl who went missing from her home on October 1, 2012.

The Disappearance of April Jones, which airs on Channel 4 at 9pm tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday, recalls how the town of Machynlleth came together after ...

Ten years on from her murder, a documentary has been made about the case, which stunned the quaint market town where April lived. April Jones, five, (pictured) disappeared from outside her home in Machynlleth, Wales, on October 1, 2012. She adds: 'She developed cerebral palsy from the hip down. "I'm off", trying to find my daughter.' After a high-profile search operation was launched to find the schoolgirl, 46-year-old Mark Bridger from Surrey was charged with her murder. Recalling her call to 999, Coral said: 'You panic. April Jones went missing from outside her home in Machynlleth, Wales, on 1 October 2012 as she was playing with her friend. I've got two Welsh kids, I'm not having an odd one",' Coral recalls, laughing. He was convicted and sentenced to a whole-life jail term the following Spring. I'm not having an English baby. They were on about sending me to Liverpool and I said, "you're not sending me to Liverpool. The mother of five-year-old April Jones who was abducted from outside her home and murdered in 2012 pays tribute to her 'little Thumbelina' whom you'd 'never want to let go' in a clip from a documentary about the child's murder.

in 2013, Bridger was found guilty of the five-year-old's abduction and murder in Wales – but her body was never found. Bridger Mark Bridger is taken away ...

When he moved to Machynlleth he claimed he used to be in the Army, but this was proved to be false. When he was 19 he was convicted of firearms offences and theft. In 1991 he was convicted of criminal damage, affray, and driving without insurance. He had a number of convictions for minor offences dating back to the mid-80s. On 14 January 2013 Bridger pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering April, but accepted that he was “probably responsible” for her death. The police search for her body was headline news – and yet to this day it has never been found.

This is a respectful addition to the true crime genre, packaged like a drama but involving April's family and the local community.

The tiny town is central to the story, because it is so close-knit that April’s disappearance was deeply felt by everyone. It takes the time to build up a picture of Machynlleth in Wales, where five-year-old April Jones was abducted in October 2012. But The Disappearance of April Jones (Channel 4) is a documentary so compelling that I couldn’t tear myself away.

The programme details when April went missing from her Welsh hometown.

Replying to one of the documentary crew, @Games said: "That's my issue, slick slick slick. However, the style of the programme seemed to upset some viewers as they took to social media to criticise the pacing and overly Netflix-style. The serial drama style intro and 4:3 ratio are both strange creative choices. @Andy said: "I don't think this required a theme tune and opening titles. In fact, I find a theme tune and opening titles highly inappropriate. Shabby." @Cupie said: "Can't watch that #AprilJones doc any more. She reported April missing at 7.29pm after failing to locate her and reported a missing child. No need for the drama element. Around 20 minutes after her mum allowed her to leave the house, Coral set out to search for her. A new documentary aired on Channel 4 on Monday (December 12) night detailing the tragic disappearance of five-year-old April Jones. What followed was the biggest police search in history, hundreds of the town's people went out looking for April.

Her killer, Mark Bridger, was later jailed for life for kidnapping and murdering April, but her body has never been found. Ten years on, a new three-part ...

April vanished from outside her home in the picturesque Welsh market town of Machynlleth back in 2012.

I know that sounds selfish, but I was 16 and I didn't have a mother for the last few years of my childhood. I was on my own, really, trying to look after my little brother (just ten at the time), trying to help my dad. I had just lost my sister, and then I lost my mother too. People from all over the UK descended on Machynlleth to help search before a manhunt was launched to track down local resident Mark Bridger. April's mum Coral said: "She came back and her friend then had dinner at our house, they wanted to take their friend home on their bikes. April Jones' family's heartbreaking final words to her have been revealed 10 years after the five-year-old was abducted.

April Jones, 5, was abducted from near her home in October 2012, sparking a vast search and a personal appeal from then-Prime Minister David Cameron, ...

The mum said she told her girl “no problem” and told her to “come straight back”. Bridger was arrested the day after April vanished, as he matched the description of the male that eyewitnesses said had spoken to April and drove away with her in his car. The mum-of-three said her daughter had left after playing with friends and she told her to come straight home. In the first episode of the three-part documentary called The Disappearance of April Jones, Jazz speaks of the last time she spoke to her younger sister, April’s mum Coral and her sister Jazz have also shared the final things they said to April, back in 2012 on October 1. [five-year-old girl](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/family-april-jones-5-murdered-28653698) who was [murdered](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/murder) a decade ago have shared the heartbreaking final words they said to her.