April Jones: 'Please, please, please help find her' pleads mother This afternoon police sealed off a stretch of river downstream from where Mark Bridger was arrested. Officers in boats and canoes have spent the afternoon combing the bank. A farmhouse two miles from the Dyfi river has been sealed off. April Jones and Mark Bridger (PA) The appeal came as it emrged that April was a regular playmate of two of Mark Bridger's children, Sophie, nine, and Connor, 13, who had been with her just hours before she was taken from near her home in Machynlleth, north Wales. Mr Bridger, 46, had split from their mother Elaine, but often returned to the Brynygog estate in Machynlleth to visit them and was a friend of the Jones family. Neighbour Amy Fenner, 21, said: "It's not the first time they have been in his vehicle. They had got into the van two days before the abduction. The father-of-six, who has an ex-wife and three former partners living in Machynlleth, fathering six children, is being interviewed by police following his arrest on suspicion of April's abduction yesterday afternoon. Mark Bridger's Land Rover Discovery