Mark Bridger: Vile child killer brutally attacked in jail

The vicious killer of five-year-old April Jones has been brutally attacked in jail for a second time.

Mark Bridger, 59, was convicted of the abduction and murder of April in 2013 after snatching her while she was playing near her home in Machynlleth, Powys in October 2012.

The search for April’s body was one of the biggest in British history, but her remains were never recovered.

Bridger was attacked by another male inmate at HMP Wakefield, leaving him with grazes on his hand.

A prisoner service spokesperson told The Mirror, “A prisoner has been placed on report for inflicting minor injuries on a second prisoner at HMP Wakefield”.

April’s half sister, Hazel Jones, said “he deserves everything he’s getting”.

Hazel now has her own children and said it’s scary to know people like Bridger are “living on your doorstep”.

Bridger was also convicted of preventing justice and the unlawful concealment and disposal of a body.

He was handed a whole-life sentence, with Justice John Griffith Williams calling him a “a paedophile” and a “pathological and glib liar”.

Justice Williams said Bridger “set out to find a little girl to abuse”.

“There is no doubt in my mind that you are a paedophile who has for some time harboured sexual and morbid fantasies about young girls, storing on your laptop not only images of pre-pubescent and pubescent girls but foul pornography of the gross sexual abuse of young children,” Justice Williams said during Bridger’s sentencing.

This marks the second attack against Bridger while he has been imprisoned.

The first attack occurred in 2013, soon after Bridger was jailed.

The murderer was slashed across the face with a makeshift knife, made from a razor by convicted murderer and rapist, Juvinal Ferreira.

Bridger needed stitches for facial injuries.

Paul Jones, April and Hazel’s father, died last month from a brain disease, and Hazel said he died not knowing where April is.