Funeral of April Jones to go ahead as inquest ends

The parents of April Jones can at last begin to plan their daughter’s funeral after an inquest into her death was concluded.

The five-year-old was snatched outside her home in Machynlleth, mid-Wales, last October before being murdered by Mark Bridger.

The 47-year-old refused to tell police what he had done with April’s body — although officers recovered fragments of her skull from his fireplace.