A convicted murderer serving a life sentence has admitted attacking April Jones’ killer, Mark Bridger, in one of Britain’s most secure jails.
Juvinai Ferreira wounded the child-killer in Wakefield Prison just months after Bridger was sentenced to life in jail for abducting and killing five-year-old April.
The 22-year-old pleaded guilty to attacking 47-year-old Bridger, who snatched April near her home in Machynlleth, Wales, last year, when he appeared at Leeds crown court via video-link.
According to reports at the time of the attack, on July 7, Bridger needed hospital treatment to a face wound after he was slashed with a makeshift knife.
Ferreira, originally from Gambia, was imprisoned for murdering Elaine Walpole in Dereham, Norfolk, in April 2008.
He bit and stabbed the 47-year-old mother-of-three after befriending her in a shop. Prosecutors at the time suggested he was ‘sex-crazed’.
In court today, Ferreira looked bored and propped his head up with his hand for most of the proceedings.
At one point in the 20-minute hearing he asked one of his guards: ‘I thought this was going to be quick?’
And, after Judge Christopher Batty told him the case was going to be adjourned, Ferreira said to him: ‘Can you just not sentence me? I can’t keep coming back. Just give me anything and move on.’
Judge Batty told him he needed a pre-sentence report to assess his level of dangerousness and decide whether a second life term was appropriate. He will be sentenced for his attack on father-of-six Bridger on October 2.
