The man accused of murdering schoolgirl April Jones admits that he “probably” killed her and got rid of her body but does not know where the corpse is, prosecutors said Tuesday as his trial got under way.
Mark Bridger, 47, is accused at Mold Crown Court of abducting and murdering the five-year-old, who went missing from her home in Machynlleth in mid-Wales last year. Her body has never been found.
In her opening comments, prosecutor Elwen Evans told the jury that Bridger was seen putting April in his Land Rover.
“It’s the defendant’s case that he admits that he drove her away. He admits that April is dead. He accepts that he killed her or probably killed her.
“He accepts that he must have got rid of her body.”
But she added that he “does not know, that he cannot remember” where the body is.
Evans added that traces of blood with a DNA match to April were found at Bridger’s home by police, particularly near a wood burner in the living room. A badly burnt boning knife was found next to it, she added.
The lawyer also said Bridger “had an interest in child murder and rape cases” such as images of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, the two schoolgirls killed in Soham, Cambridgeshire in 2002.
The former lifeguard from Ceinws denies the charges against him.
April accused 'probably' killed her: prosecution
