April Jones family launches pink ribbon campaign
The family of missing Welsh schoolgirl April Jones have launched a pink ribbon campaign.
The five-year-old’s godmother Mair Raftree told ITV: “What Coral has asked everybody to do is, if they can, either put one on front doors, gates, or to wear a pink ribbon, because obviously that’s a favourite colour for April.”
Breaking down, she added: “Just anybody, please, wear a pink ribbon.”
Margaret Humphries, a family friend, told ITV’s 'Daybreak' that the mood was sombre in the town.
She added: “It is a very rural area and everybody sort of knows what everybody else is doing so we find it difficult to accept this has happened and nobody has seen it.”
Detectives are continuing to question abduction suspect Mark Bridger about the youngster’s disappearance after they were granted a 12-hour custody extension last night.
Bridger, 46, was arrested by officers on Tuesday after cerebral palsy-sufferer April vanished near her home in the mid-Wales town of Machynlleth the night before.
Police were applying to magistrates today for an extension to allow them to continue questioning Mr Bridger.
The court can either grant them a further 36 hours, or allow them more time to make a total of 96 hours since arrest.
Mr Bridger was expected to appear in person at the hearing, but it was not known whether the hearing would be held in open court.
