Police Search for April Jones nearly complete

[pdq1]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...es-mid-wales-19930032

Does this show police methods are totally unsatisfactory in finding a missing body or could it point to the fact the body no longer exists?

[Graham-W]

No. It means they haven't found her in Machynlleth.
However, "Officers from across the UK, the ambulance service and coastguard are continuing to search for April."

[excelsior-1]

the article says the search in the town is nearly complete.

if no body is found - the search will proceed to other areas.

they are committed to finding her.

[Prudie]

It shows they cannot find a body in Machynllech that's all. In that area of Wales she could be anywhere.

[marval]

I do so hope they find her. It would at least give her family the chance to lay her to rest.

[sir.prize]

Police searching for April Jones are now focusing their efforts in Ceinws.
Mechanical diggers have been brought in to dig up ground near to April Jones suspect Mark Bridger's house.
Police today deployed the heavy machinery as the search for the missing five-year-old intensified.

Perhaps suspect Bridger has said something.

[stokemaveric]

the police have been looking into the maze of mineshafts that are within the area,as 1 local says it would take a lifetime to search the vast array of shafts,another theory is that bridger may have dumped the poor litle soul in the river and that with the recent amount of rainfall she may have been washed into the irish sea and may never be found,unless bridger tells all the police are up against it im afraid... they should hang the b***ard..

[hc4361]

stoke, that is ludicrous. He hasn't been found guilty and if he is guilty and hanged he will never be able to say where she is.

[DTCwordfan]

it depends how he chucked her body in the river, if it was he and if it was a river. Anyway, a body resurfaces in about nine days in seawater......so if she is there, well then there is hope of finding her. The Irish Sea is not that shark infested, much that people would like to believe it is.

[stokemaveric]

i meant after he had been found guilty hc...

[DTCwordfan]

aah, stoke, but then the boys in prison wouldn't enjoy the use of him for their "relief" and generally abuse him and make his life a living hell.....

[Gromit]

// The Irish Sea is not that shark infested, much that people would like to believe it is. //

What a strange statement. Do people generally believe the Irish sea is full of sharks? I've never heard that from anyone. And why would they wish it were? All very odd.

[chaptazbru]

Still not feeling well DT ?? x

[sandyRoe]

Waterboarding would have loosened his tongue. BUt in these days of the Police and criminal evidence Act, PACE, that was never likely to be used.

[Answerprancer]

What I'd like to know is this: presumably this Bridger character has admitted murdering the girl, so why then is he not telling where the body is. Maybe they should torture the c***.

[chaptazbru]

sir.prize is saying on here that they are now digging up the area around his home, so maybe he has said something ?

[emmie]

I hope he has for everyone's sake, what a bstard to keep quiet for so long.

[DTCwordfan]

nice to see that you haven't gained your sense of irony, gromit. Keep it up.

[Barmaid]

There are a number of possibilities

1 He didn't do it so he can't say
2 He did do it, but in saying where her body is it amounts to a confession to murder. He has nothing to gain by this because at the moment the CPS are faced with running a trial based potentially only on forensic and circumstantial evidence.

[sandyRoe]

If he knows where the body is, and tells, he condemns himself to a life sentence. If he keeps quiet he might get off.