Gallery: Mark Bridger convicted of murdering April Jones

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Published May 30, 2013 1:30pm Updated December 9, 2019 8:37pm

Mark Bridger has been found guilty of abducting and murdering April Jones, as well as concealing her body.

The 47-year-old has been described as a ‘violent, cold-hearted murderer’ who ‘relentlessly spun a web of lies and half-truths’.

He was convicted after a five-week trial, with jurors requiring just over four hours to return unanimous guilty verdicts at Mold crown court.

April’s parents were in the public gallery to watch Bridger, from Ceinws, be led away from the dock. The five-year-old’s body has still never been found.

We look back at what was the biggest search operation in British policing and the trial itself.

BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE. Handout Dyfed-Powys Police image of Mark Bridger at council offices. Former slaughterhouse worker Mark Bridger has been found guilty of abducting and murdering five year old April Jones. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 30, 2013. See PA story COURTS April. Photo credit should read: Dyfed-Powys Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

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BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE. Handout Dyfed-Powys Police image of Mark Bridger at council offices. Former slaughterhouse worker Mark Bridger has been found guilty of abducting and murdering five year old April Jones. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 30, 2013. See PA story COURTS April. Photo credit should read: Dyfed-Powys Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder. (Credits: Dyfed-Powys Police)

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File photo dated 16/5/2013 of DC Fred Hunter from the media crime unit holding a bike belonging to April Jones' friend, (who cannot be named), in Mold, north Wales, as the jury has today viewed a car belonging to murder suspect Mark Bridger and the bike that was being ridden by schoolgirl April Jones on the night she went missing. Former slaughterhouse worker Mark Bridger has been found guilty of abducting and murdering schoolgirl April Jones. Lynne Cameron/PA Wire (Credits: Lynne Cameron)

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