The father of April Jones, a schoolgirl who was killed, Paul Jones, passed away without ever discovering the corpse of his daughter.
In 2018, six years after April was abducted in Machynlleth, Wales, in one of the most horrifying child abduction cases in British history, Jones, 55, died following.
A protracted struggle with a brain ailment. On October 1, 2012, five-year-old April disappeared after being seen boarding a vehicle close to her home.
The disappearance garnered national attention, including an appeal from then-Prime Minister David Cameron, and led to one of the biggest police searches in UK history.
Mark Bridger, then 46, was arrested as a result of the inquiry. The day after April’s disappearance, he was taken into custody after matching the description of the guy who was seen operating.
The vehicle. Bridger first entered a not guilty plea to the allegations of murder, perverting the course of justice, and kidnapping a child. He subsequently acknowledged,