Mark Bridger trial: CCTV images of April Jones shown in court

A jury has been shown CCTV images of April Jones at a local leisure centre, just a few hours before she went missing.

Two clips of her at the location, where she went swimming earlier in the day, were played.

One video showed her running into a foyer with a friend and then entering a cafe before heading towards a set of changing rooms.

The other clip was taken from a later period and showed the five-year-old leaving the changing room with another girl.

The accused, Mark Bridger, was also shown on CCTV.

He was tracked as he drove to and from his home and into town in his Land Rover.

Bridger had wept in court as a jury heard the frantic moments when the parents of April learned she was missing.

Police statements given by Coral and Paul Jones after their daughter disappeared on October 1 were read out at Mold crown court.

Former slaughterman Bridger, 47, is accused of abducting and murdering the schoolgirl in a ‘sexually motivated’ attack.

Mrs Jones, 43, described her last moments with April before she went to play with a friend next door after a swimming lesson.

‘Paul and I said no, she wanted to take her bike to her friend’s next door,’ she told police.

‘She kept on and on and had a little tantrum and I eventually gave in so she went next door to play.’

Twenty minutes later, Mrs Jones sent April’s older brother out to collect his sister as ‘it was getting dark and a little colder’.

‘Within a very short time he came running home and he was in a hysterical state,’ she added.

‘When I calmed him down he said that April’s friend had seen her getting into a car with a man and that she had gone.

‘I immediately went over and asked April’s friend what she had seen.

‘I was told that April had got into a car with a man and he had driven off.’

She called police straight away before beginning a search of the Bryn-Y-Gog estate with a friend.

‘I went out and searched around the estate, everywhere I could think of,’ she said. ‘I even looked in the bins.

‘I asked a friend to drive me around in my car. I was frantic, trying to find her.’

Former abattoir worker Bridger denies abduction, murder and intending to pervert the course of justice by disposing of, concealing or destroying April’s body.

He says he accidentally killed April when he ran her over and does not remember what he did with her body.