Overview

• Bridger was set upon by another inmate at HMP Wakefield last week, sustaining grazes to his hands.
• The Prison Service has placed his attacker on report pending a disciplinary hearing.
• Bridger is serving a whole-life sentence imposed in 2013 for abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones.
• Despite the UK’s largest missing-person search, April’s body remains undiscovered, prolonging her family’s trauma.
• Hazel Jones, the victim’s half-sister, endorsed the assault and the family’s suffering deepened after their father died without ever learning April’s whereabouts.