While they have yet to recover a body police yesterday (6/10/12) formally charged Mark Bridger with the abduction and murder of missing Welsh schoolgirl April Jones. He has also been charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice. Although it will be difficult to prove without a body the murder charge means that the police no longer think there is any chance of April Jones being found alive.
Now that he's been charged more details have been released about the accused Mark Bridger. Apparently he was born in Croydon while his father was working as a Royal Protection Officer for the Metropolitan Police. The family then moved down to East Sussex close to Brighton before Mark Bridger moved to Wales in the 1990's. Sadly that means I think that it is extremely unlikely that April Jones' body will ever be recovered. It has either been dumped into a tidal river that will take it out into the Atlantic ocean or it is being kept somewhere the police will never find it in order for the whole case to be used as a basis for a very funny conversation about whether the Croydon nursing home will leave my grandmother enough money to be buried in Wales.
So although they've been able to bring certain pressures to bear I think it's time for the media to scale back their coverage of the story in order to allow the residents of the small Welsh town to come to terms with what is likely to be forever an open wound.
10:10 on 7/10/12.
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