Not necessarily, there would have been lots of vehicles moving around by then. Since the police have searched his house and garden, unless they're totally incompetent either he spirited the body away from the village and buried it, threw it in the river or he didn't do it.
If she got into the vehicle at 19:00, how far away could he already have been when her family reported her missing? The major search didn't start until after 22:30 when the police issued a statement expressing serious concern about her whereabouts, after which there was a LOT of traffic as volunteer searchers started to roll in.
He could have 'sold-on' the little girl to someone - though I would expect there to be some trace amongst his electronic devices.
When you can buy a "disposable" phone and number for next to nothing, as well as "disposable" use email addresses from Hotmail/Gmail/yahoo/etc, I wouldn't expect there to be a trace of any kind on his own phone(s) if he was up to something like that.
Macchynlleth is a drab little market town situated at the junction of the Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth , Dolgellau and Towyn roads, the sort of place where kids should be able to play out amongst the tight knit houses and the nearby heavily rural countryside.
This is no big city environment
Macchynlleth to the secluded sand dunes at Borth is all of fifteen minutes drive, put a dinghy out onto to the Dovey with a slab of slate and a sack - doesn't bear thinking about - but he could have dumped her out to sea and be home in an hour.
I have walked my dogs there at times - it really is that close. The same is true of the road to Aberdovey and up the coast towards Towyn.
Up the valley above Corris there is a typical welsh ribbon lake at the bottom of the valley - same thing there - but not as infinite as out to sea.
Then get stuck into the quarries and the mines in the mountains, let alone the forests. It would take an army and all the technological gizmos going to attempt to cover that lot.
Obviously none of us know the evidence behind the decision to prosecute, but it must be compelling, but if April had been a regular rider in that Discovery before, then DNA will count for nothing.
They have some stronger reason for holding him, and if he is pulling the psychological power trip of "not telling" then he deserves everything he will get.
I knew someone was going to come crawling out of the woodwork with that. Why am I not surprised it's you, Mr Lefty Sprogget?
In the legal sense, I am fully aware that he is innocent until proved guilty.
Have you heard of : "The law is an ass"?
Thanks for the unpleasant personal remark. Quite uncalled for, but if it makes you happy to refer to others as cretins, it says more about you than about them.
...a 5 year old should be in bed at 7pm...its not a question of safety.
It has been reported that she had been allowed to play out late as a reward for receiving a glowing report from her school earlier in the day. That to me, implies that normally, she would have been indoors at that time. I do agree that in normal circumstances, a 5 year old should be inside the family home at that time of the day.
As others have pointed out the areas where a body could be hidden within a short period are many and varied. For example the national cycle route 8 can be accessed with a vehicle off the A487. Within a very short period you are into a remote densely wooded area on high ground. Those wooded areas would be a nightmare to search.
I didn't say he couldn't have disposed of her body i said
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"But he only had 21 hours! I imagine that its very difficult to dispose of a body in just 21 hours in a manner that makes it impossible to find. I believe that the poor girl must be in the river or washed out to sea.
He would have been seen, you cannot get out of a small village no matter how remote without being seen.
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He would have been seen, you cannot get out of a small village no matter how remote without being seen.
Like TEEEJ I know that area very well indeed. You, on the other hand, clearly don't. The simple answer is yes you can.
If you don't 'make' your luck you may just get lucky and not be seen especially in a rural community. If you work deliberately and know your ground then it becomes a whole lot easier. I live in a rural village, I can get in and out of the village relatively easily without being seen if I want to.
If my life/freedom depended on it, I can think 'off the cuff' of ways I could do it with ease and security. From the centre of Machynlleth you don't even need 21 minutes to get into remote rarely used areas, let alone 21 hours.
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He has been charged as a murder suspect, but also with the unlawful concealment or disposal of a body.. The CPS have decided that the Police have enough to go on, that suggests to me that this bastard is guilty as hell and is playing the "I'm saying nothing copper.. (Insert smug evil grin)" power trip.. If you were 100% innocent, and the coppers had you as a suspect, wouldn't you be able to prove in a convincing fashion, your whereabouts at that given time?? I know I bloody could! My computer would show usage, my phone would have been on and been able to be traced, my bin would be full of whatever I had for dinner, my friends would have seen my, strangers, neighbours and every bugger else would have seen me at some point.. when did you last do anything in your town and not see a soul.. Unless you didn't want to be seen??
Today it emerged that Mark Bridger, the suspect accused of murdering April Jones is related to her family.
Bridger, 46, is the uncle of the little girl’s two half sisters.
Detectives looking at the complex relationships of Mr Bridger’s past, discovered that he had fathered two children with a woman called Elaine Griffiths. Mr Bridger and Elaine had Connor and Sophie in the 1990s.
Around the same time, Elaine’s sister Karen had two daughters - Hazel and Abby - with April’s father Paul Jones. He subsequently married April’s mother, Coral.
The connection means that Mr Bridger’s children are cousins to April’s half sisters.
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