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THE FORMER HOME of the man found guilty of murdering April Jones has been demolished.
Mark Bridger was jailed for life last year for the abduction and murder of the five-year-old Welsh girl.
He had claimed that he accidentally ran over April, who had cerebral palsy, as she played near her home in October 2012 and could not remember what he did with the body.
Her father, Paul, said the demolition of the house today was “closure”.
“It’s a closure, and the end of a chapter, and perhaps we can move on a bit,” he told BBC News.
His wife, Coral, added that the past two years have been tough, but that the family “just remember the happy times, not the nightmare”.
She said that they had been to the scene before, but today ‘opened up a wound’.
Police found a huge cache of pornographic images of young children on Bridger’s computer, his trial heard. He also had images downloaded from Facebook of April’s teenage half-sisters.
April’s body has never been found despite hundreds of members of the public joining the police search of the mountainous area criss-crossed by rivers near her hometown of Machynlleth in mid-Wales.
Blood and tiny bone fragments found at Bridger’s cottage were a near-perfect match with April’s DNA.
The house was later bought by the Welsh government.
Additional reporting by AFP.
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Pity the bast€rd wasn’t in it, as it was being demolished.
But how long is life for?
Fitting
He could have done with a wee dose of Frans medicine, cuela bula
Strange how we tend to associate the acts of people with buildings or places associated with the criminals or their crimes. We all do it so I can understand why they tore the house down, but realistically there was nothing different about that house than any other in the area, that a horrific crime was committed there was the responsibility of the murderer, not the house in which he lived & murdered.
I don’t know if the family still live in the area, but I can imagine if they pass by the house it must feel like stabbing to heart knowing what most likely happen there. Houses represent a lot more than bricks and stones, no one would ever want to live there.
I agree, and I wouldn’t want to live there either, just find it strange is all.
I have witnessed a building demolished in my area where trauma has occurred not all houses in the estate are associated with the man in involved but it’s easy not to see where the little girl was de stressed for the family
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