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5yr old girl missing in Wales

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http://news.sky.com/story/991959/search-intensifies-for-missing-five-year-old
A local search team is calling for more volunteers in the hunt for a five-year-old girl believed to have been abducted.
April Jones was playing with friends near her home in the Mid Wales town of Machynlleth at around 7.30pm on Monday when she went missing.
She was last spotted by another child getting into a van, wearing a purple knee-length coat with grey fur around the hood, a white polo top and black trousers, said police.
Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed her disappearance on its Twitter account.
At 10.40pm the force posted a statement saying: "We are increasingly concerned for a missing five year old, April, who was last seen playing on her bike in Machynlleth at about 7.30pm.......

I heard this story late last night and hoped it was a mother/father/child tug-o-war situation.

Sadly, the police in Wales are intensifying their search and treating this as an abduction. I feel sick to the pit of my stomach thinking about what this poor girl may be going through.

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NIMAN

py2006 wrote: »

If this guy is not charged or found to have no involvment his life is destroyed now. This is what really annoys me about the media. They seem to latch onto somebody and print and display his name and image. I think this is totally wrong until they are charged and found guilty.

If you recall the woman who was murdered in London last year, the media latched on to her eccentric ex-lecturer and not only mentioned his name but showed photographs and filmed him leaving his house etc. As it turned out this guy had nothing to do with it but his name will be forever associated with the case.

It seems to be more prevalent in the UK but maybe it is just as bad here.

Was it not the Police who released his name and photo?

If he is never charged with anything, I'd say he will get hefty compensation.

MJ23

LizT wrote: »

Are you serious? It's about a five year old girl who has possibly been abducted and murdered and you're wondering why it's getting coverage??

Why so much coverage here though?

howamidifferent

MJ23 wrote: »

Why so much coverage here though?

Because normal people have empathy for suffering of others?

lukesmom

But can you actually charge somebody with murder if no body has been found?

Canard

The point MJ23 is making, I assume, is that theres a lot more coverage than usual. Jeez. And I agree! No one said it's bad, it's a question, and a fair one at that.

Halloran springs

howamidifferent wrote: »

MJ23 wrote: »

Why so much coverage here though?

Because normal people have empathy for suffering of others?

Yeah but the levels of interest displayed on this thread go beyond empathy and almost crossing the border into morbid fascination

cgpg5

Patchy~ wrote: »

The point MJ23 is making, I assume, is that theres a lot more coverage than usual. Jeez. And I agree! No one said it's bad, it's a question, and a fair one at that.

I remember the Soham murders of ten years ago got a lot more coverage here but I guess that was due to the fact they didn't have a suspect from early on and at the start it felt like the two girls had just vanished into thin air

Thrill

Halloran springs wrote: »

Yeah but the levels of interest displayed on this thread go beyond empathy and almost crossing the border into morbid fascination

In what way?

J. Marston

He's been charged now.

Thrill

Mark Bridger charged with murder

cgpg5

Charged with Murder, abduction and perverting the course of justice

hairyprincess

Bastard

Biggins

lukesmom wrote: »

But can you actually charge somebody with murder if no body has been found?

Yes if there is enough other related evidence (DNA, statements, timings of location spotted in area, etc) available.

lukesmom

Hope he gets tortured in jail and drops the soap repeatedly. Bastard!

Let's hope they find April Jones so her poor mother can at least bury her and let the little one rest in peace

Thrill

He is to appear in Court on Monday morning, charged with murder

Biggins

He must be refusing to tell where the body is still.

bohsboy

Filthy animal.

foxy06

You would think he would tell them where she is. Scumbag

Pj!

He's obviously not admitting to the murder. Why on earth would he tell them where the body is?

The evidence against him must be strong though. Police put him in the public eye very early on.

Jellicoe

Careful. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt in a court of law. That is the golden thread of justice.

You don't want her killer getting off.
We want to make sure they rot in goal for the rest of their life.

rogieop

lukesmom wrote: »

Hope he gets tortured in jail and drops the soap repeatedly. Bastard!

Let's hope they find April Jones so her poor mother can at least bury her and let the little one rest in peace

you think he will actually see any of the "normal" jail population?

He will be housed in with all the other ****ing paedophiles and they can all talk about their fantasies together.

BorneTobyWilde

So how will this work
Will he be out until trial, or sent to prison now?
And how long before trial comes to court,

SantryRed

rogieop wrote: »

you think he will actually see any of the "normal" jail population?

He will be housed in with all the other ****ing paedophiles and they can all talk about their fantasies together.

How is he a padeophile?

skepticalone

SantryRed wrote: »

How is he a padeophile?

DONT FOOL YOURSELF ,what kind of normal person with no sexual inclinations twords a child abducts and murders her ? Just face the fact that there are sick sick predators out there .

drunkmonkey

How can there be a murder without a murder victim/body, Did he claim to have killed her?
Abduction charge I can understand but a murder charge without a body I can't?

Rayne Wooney

drunkmonkey wrote: »

How can there be a murder without a murder victim/body, Did he claim to have killed her?
Abduction charge I can understand but a murder charge without a body I can't?

What is the abduction charge based on? I thought the kids said she got into a van and that was it?

Dampsquid

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

What is the abduction charge based on? I thought the kids said she got into a van and that was it?

You would need the parent's consent to lawfully take a child, not just the child's consent.

SusieBlue

All the RIP April facebook pages are sickening.

Aprils older sister Jasmine left a comment on one of the ones that has been active since Thursday asking for the page to be deleted, and it got nearly 30,000 likes.

Yet the Admin (who by the looks of his/her posts is no older than 12) won't shut down the page. Her poor family

kfk

drunkmonkey wrote: »

How can there be a murder without a murder victim/body, Did he claim to have killed her?
Abduction charge I can understand but a murder charge without a body I can't?

Murder charges and prosecutions can be made without a body.

Rayne Wooney

Dampsquid wrote: »

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You would need the parent's consent to lawfully take a child, not just the child's consent.

Yeah I get that, but was it actually confirmed that it was his car that she got into with him in it?
I thought it was just speculation as the kid who saw her getting into a vehicle said it was a 'van'