http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19843337

The man held for the past three days over the disappearance of five-year-old April Jones has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Det Supt Reg Bevan said Mark Bridger, 46, remained in custody for questioning.

Teams have spent the past few days searching the River Dyfi in the mid Wales town of Machynlleth, where April went missing on Monday evening.

Officers said they now required only professional searchers in the hunt.

Det Supt Reg Bevan and Supt Ian John gave an update on the investigation at a press conference in Aberystwyth.


April Jones has been missing since Monday night
Mr Bridger, 46, was initially arrested on Tuesday in connection with April's disappearance and is being held at Aberystwyth police station.

But at a press conference on Friday morning, Det Supt Reg Bevan said: "Mark Bridger has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of April Jones.

"He remains in custody in Aberystwyth and continues to be questioned.

"The arrest does not detract from our efforts to find her.

He must have told them he killed her.

Evil man.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...96_634x400.jpg

Aw,no,what a utterly cruel man to keep them guessing like this.

I'm not too sure this means he actually did it. I think the police are running out of time to question him so they had to either release him or charge him. Though they had until 5pm ish tonight to do so. Wasnt chris jeffries also arrested after being questioned? And look how that turned out...

If she is dead I hope they find her body so her parents can have a proper funeral.... If this guy has done it I hope they can get her location out of him so they can lay her to rest...

Unfortunately there is not much hope now unless they have got totally the wrong guy and she is being held somewhere by someone else..

What an insensitive person Kay Burley is
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012...6pLid%3D130576

She like a sad dog at times

The Police must have known this at least a couple of days or so now then, as I thought it was suspicious when they wanted the public to discontinue their searching in the area, and also when they stated that they just wanted April returned to her family, not that she be found alive? The way they worded stuff made me suspect that they had an inkling that April was dead :( So sad an outcome to all this if she is :( I could not understand also why he would give the little girl a lift in his car when she was already at home? Surely the family must have been informed also? as it would be cruel not to inform them otherwise, leaving them with false hope if they believe April to be dead :( and the press conference being an appeal to find her. It makes me think he had an accomplice then?

Yeah shes really awful

Whether it was him or not, Im sure there was 2 of them. As April was reported to have said 'its ok I know THEM' when getting into the van/landrover/whatever :S

Unless his daughter was there too, weren't they friends? That probably would have come out by now though, I'd imagine it would be easy enough to get the truth out of a little kid

It is so heartbreaking if she said that, not realising anything :( Children are so very trusting, bless them, so it's sad when that trust is taken advantage of :(

I never thought of that actually...it sounds quite bad, but I wonder if his daughter has been questioned, incase this did happen.

The whole thing strikes me as so strange. Why abduct a child in view of witnesses..even if the witness was a 5 year old child

I don't know, maybe he never meant to kill her, maybe he abused her and something went wrong, or maybe it was an accident and he was trying to cover it up?

I just have an awful feeling that the police are putting all their eggs in the wrong basket...and that the person/people who took her is miles away by now and unlikely to be found

I know :( Parents need to be so vigilant in warning their kids about getting into cars with people, even if they know them. I always remember my mother warning me when I was younger and it worked too. I remember walking home from school one day and my friends dad stopped and asked me if I wanted a lift home, I started panicking lol I never got in his car though :laugh:

If he has kidnapped her and then murdered her then he's most likely so messed up in the head and didn't think about any of these things before doing it, what kind of person walks down one of the main roads near the same town he murdered someone in ( if he did ) the day after? it seems like he wasn't bothered about getting arrested

If April is dead, a thought that did cross my mind was as she was abducted, if indeed it was meant to be an abduction? as she was in full view, that he didn't intend to kill her but maybe an accident happened? Not excusing him or whoever else it may be, but as you say it is weird it happened in full view, it could be the reason he wasn't opening up to Police, or that he knows what happened and it is someone close to him who he wants to protect? It's a very perplexing case so far.

I hope not for the parents sake, there would be nothing worse then her never being found

this is one of those that you know wont have a happy ending.
i think one thing we can do on this and other sites across the internet is sign a petition to bring back the death penalty!

What kind of a monster does this to a 5 year old? If it is this guy or if they find someone else, they should never be let out on our streets again, that's for sure.

Is it true that the 'timeline' has changed recently? Just reading through the (huge) DS thread and

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=3988

:S

they are monsters but cases like this will happen again!
who ever gets convicted of this will sit in their cell do their sentence get room and board and then get released.

I hadn't heard either of those timelines tbh. I thought it was a neighbour who said it was Bridger? I didn't think they knew that straight off

Anyone guilty of a crime like that shouldn't be allowed walk the streets again and put other children in danger. The justice system is a joke

This is my fear as well, as they cannot find the body so no DNA evidence at this time , there is nothing to solidly connect this guy to the abduction, if they have his van then again maybe DNA evidence that she was in it at some point, but short of that what is driving their suspicions of him ?

Even with this new charge of Suspicion of Murder he cannot be held in custody any longer than 5pm today. The police may try to get another 24 hrs but after that they need to charge him with Murder or release him.

As Vicky said above I hope they are not way off the mark with this guy, as the real abductor may be miles away by now.

Desperately sad story however you look at it.