April Jones’ friend tells trial ‘she got into Land Rover’
A seven-year-old friend of April Jones describes seeing the missing schoolgirl “get into a grey Land Rover”, on the fifth day of the trial of her alleged murderer Mark Bridger.
A DVD of police interviews with the girl, who cannot be identified because of her age, was played to the jury at Mold crown court. They were filmed the day after April’s disappearance from the Bryn-Y-Gog estate in Machynlleth.
The little girl also appeared in the court via video link.
In the recorded interviews, she told police she and April had been playing, and then she saw April “by a Land Rover van”.
‘Happy face’
“I saw her by the person that was waiting by the van,” the girl said. “She did not say she was going to go in it. I know they (April’s parents) wouldn’t let her go at that time.
“The man didn’t take her in the van – she got into the van, having a happy face she had and she wasn’t upset.”