We saw James Holmes in court...I wonder if we'll see Bridger's courtcase? Too much not making sense here. I agree with so many posts above - they seem to be wasting time with this guy who, let's be honest, may or may not be involved. Hopefully he will tell them something that could help in locating April soon, or she may be found 15years later, all drugged up and used up. I think the alternative may be better, as horrid as it may be. But if it was my 5yr old...doesn't bear thinking of.

Originally posted by detachedindividual
This is what really worries me the most.

The first reports were of a silver vehicle, and then when they arrested this guy they retrieved his BLUE vehicle from a local garage? That just doesn't make sense to me. Kids know the difference between silver and blue! There has been no explanation that I can see of why they suddenly changed the color of the vehicle they were looking for when they arrested him.

It was dark, kids are stupid and the street lights are orange. I am not surprised they didn't know the colour. I think your really reaching to try and paint some sort of conspiracy angle....

Originally posted by detachedindividual
I can't understand why this guy would still be in custody, when they seem to have no evidence at all of anything. Why has he not caved if he did do something?

How can you possibly know what evidence they have? The fact charges have been brought means they have evidence. You can't just charge someone on a hunch.

Originally posted by detachedindividual
We've seen this happen over and over. Police are under pressure to arrest someone, anyone, and charge them .

See above. You're being overly dramatic and reaching for something here. The CPS won't entertain charges unless there is a realistic chance of conviction, hence they must have evidence of some kind.

Originally posted by thePharaoh
yea but the truth actually is far from that

do you remeber the last case like this, last month....when they let the guy out on bail, then lost him when they found it was him...

they cant be seen to make this mistake again...

peace

Source?

Or I might as well say "Do you remember that thing, well a thing happened which I can't remember and you know, you're wrong, because of the thing, so there..."

C'mon....

Ok , charged with murder yet no body or evidence of murder ...... they knew who they were looking for straight away , Bridger , spotted on a Bridge , mother with crocodile tears , looking for suspect with white van - arrest suspect with dark land rover. yeah , i believe every single thing these clowns say .

Either this is a load of hogwash or Bridger is a known nonce who`s details were not revealed to the people in the local area since the police like to put peadophiles next door to you and your children and tell you that you have no right to know wether they are a nonce or not.

Get his " mugshot " picture up and check out those pentagon shaped eyes .

I personally have little faith in the cops, the organisation is unforunately an excercise in box ticking and ass covering these days- hope they have the right guy though, time will tell

I hope to goodness her poor parents don't read half the comments I have been reading on the internet today, it's just dreadful the assumptions some people make simply because they don't know. And that is the issue here, so much is being witheld from the public, and people feel they 'need' answers.

We can all assume until the cows come home, but until the information is released we shall all just have to wait.

Anyone heard anything more about the case apart from the suspect appearing in court?

It's just dropped out of the news completely, i'd have thought that now that the searches were scaled back, the locals would be back out there in force, just heard nothing about it at all?

Can any of our Welsh members shed any light?

CX.

Case adjourned to January 11th, 2013 - apparently the judge wants the trial to move "quickly" for the sake of the family.

Originally posted by Flavian
I still feel there is something not quite right with this but i have to admit it looks like i was wrong. The parents need closure one way or the other, so if it was him, i truly hope he admits where the body is / what happened to her. I am not hopeful though. At the end of the day, if he is guilty he will gain nothing by showing where a body may be hidden.

I share your feeling that something is not quite right. I live not that many miles from where April was taken, they are said to be still looking and still nothing found, but even here in the local news there isn't anything substantive any more - there are still items intended to keep it in people's minds but nothing that might help anyone to find her. Something that sounded like a lead, to me, was reported by the local paper that a couple in a white/silver van were on the North Pembrokeshire coast, asking children questions earlier on the same day she was abducted. There were a couple of other incidents reported in Carmarthenshire in the same month, describing a similar van. Having said that, I was out on a country lane the other day for about 20 minutes and counted 3 white vans passing. There are a lot of them round here.

I've also been looking into Machynlleth a bit, and a lot of very interesting artistic activities, also "green" activities, go on in and around it. Some quite high-profile people either live there or sometimes attend events there. It occurs to me that maybe she was taken out of Machynlleth all together. There are, for instance, private helicopter pads in at least two places within a short distance of the town centre. The volunteer searchers, early on in October, reported that they found a child's purple and pink (April's favourite colour) drinks bottle on the ground in a very remote spot slightly south of the town, but that they were told not to search the nearby buildings because of dangerous structures, also it was bad weather at the time. I hope and trust that those buildings were subsequently searched, but could she have been there and have been whisked away from there?

An elderly gentleman tragically died in a car accident a few days after April disappeared. He lived almost next-door to her and from what was in the press, he may have been a witness and may have already given information to the police when that happened, though it isn't 100% clear.

I wouldn't want to jeapordise the police enquiries in any way, but feel that if people got their heads together, something more might be found.