April Jones murder trial jurors shown last images of 5-year-old going to leisure centre cafe and skipping with friend Footage showed to jury showed April skipping and smiling after a swim Mum Coral Jones told police she allowed April out at 7pm on October 1, 2012 'I told her I didn't want her to be long. This was the last time I saw her Less than two hours later April was allegedly taken and killed Suspect Mark Bridger, 47, was followed by police helicopter and filmed Former abattoir worker denies kidnap and murder These are the heartbreaking final CCTV images of April Jones running and skipping just before she was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by suspect Mark Bridger. The jury in his trial was today taken through the footage, captured on cameras from the leisure centre in Machynlleth, where hundreds of volunteers would convene hours later to search desperately for the missing five-year-old. April visited the centre to go swimming after school on October 1 last year with her half-sister, 16, and the seven-year-old friend who witnessed her being driven away from the Bryn-y-Gog estate just an hour and a half later. The images were shown as statements by the heartbroken parents of schoolgirl April Jones revealed how they didn't want her to go out to play on the fateful night she was kidnapped and murdered. Upsetting: April Jones was shown on CCTV inside her local leisure centre after going swimming. The time shows almost 5.30pm and within two hours she had disappeared Video: April is then seen heading through the doors after swimming with her sister and best friend - the last image that exists of the missing schoolgirl Heartbroken: April Jones's parents Paul and Coral (pictured today) had not wanted their daughter to go out to play on the night she disappeared, the jury heard today A jury today heard it was only when April, five, had a 'tantrum' that they gave in and let her go out on her bike for 20 minutes. In her statement to police, her mother Coral, 43, told of the night when she last saw 'happy and smiling' April alive. She had picked her up from a swimming lesson with her best friend and texted her husband Paul, 41, to make them spaghetti on toast for tea. Trial: Mark Bridger arrives at court today, where he denies kidnapping and murder 'April cleared her plate which is unusual because she's not normally a good eater, she said. 'She and her best friend then sat down to watch april's favourite Disney film Tangled on Sky. April wanted to go out to play but me and Paul said no. She kept on and on and had a bit of a tantrum and we eventually gave in. I zipped up her coat and she went off to play on her bike. 'I told her I didn't want her to be long - I think that was about 7pm. This was abut 7 o'clock. This was the last time I saw her. It was about 7.20pm and wanted April to come back home - she had been out about 20 minutes it was getting dark and colder. I sent her brother out to get her in and within a very short time he came running home in an hysterical state. 'When I calmed him down he said April's best friend said she had got into a car with a man and she had gone.' It came as footage of Mark Bridger walking his dog in the hours after he is alleged to have abducted and murdered missing schoolgirl April Jones was shown to the jury during his trial today. April's father, Paul Jones, said she was "quite stubborn" and begged to go out and play. Neither Coral or I were keen for this to happen. The night was drawing in," he said, adding that he was "cross" because she had dragged her bike through the house on her way out. Minutes later it emerged she was missing. Sketch: Murder suspect Mark Bridger lowers his head in the dock, where he is using headphones to help him follow proceedings Emotional: Parents Paul and Coral Jones at Mold Crown Court today, which heard they did not want their daughter to go out to play on the night she vanished Mr Jones, a stay-at-home father, suffers from a degenerative eye condition and could not help with the searches. "I felt so helpless," he said. [Her friend] said something about a van and when she said that I went around the corner to look. I went back home and I just paced. I think I just paced waiting for news for 24 hours. Mr Jones told the jury he had known Bridger since about 1992 because he had children with the sister of the mother of two of Bridger's children. He said Bridger was about 32 when Elaine, his girlfriend, was in her teens. Bridger broke down briefly as his statement was read out, whimpering as Mr Jones said he could not grasp how any father could harm a child. "I can't think of any reason Mark Bridger would take April and hurt her," he said. He is a father too. Police kept the former abattoir worker under surveillance with a helicopter and later swooped on his white-washed cottage, where they believe the five-year-old may have been killed. Images: The jury were show Mark Bridger leaving his house and walking his dog on the day after April Jones disappeared Filmed: Bridger was first filmed as he left his cottage on October 2, before they zoomed on him walking down the hill from his home Footage: A camera at the Tuffins garage spotted Bridger's car, which may have contained April at the time, the court heard On the first day of prosecution evidence at Mold Crown Court, the jury of nine women and three men were shown CCTV from shops, garages, banks, buses and offices in Machynlleth, which enabled officers to track Bridger's movements in the hours before April went missing. CCTV shows the girls going into the café at the leisure centre at 4.39pm before April excitedly ran ahead down the corridor towards the changing rooms. At 5.40pm, April was then seen emerging with her older sister, who playfully swung her from side to side as they walked towards the exit and left for home. Meanwhile, other cameras in Machynlleth had caught Bridger driving his Land Rover into town. The prosecution say April was snatched by Bridger at just after 7pm that evening when she was playing on her bicycle close to her home with the friend she had been swimming with. The first shot, taken from a Spar shop, showed Bridger buying cider and wine on night before the alleged abduction. Mark Bridger tried to befriend April Jones's teenage half-sister on Facebook before he killed the five-year-old, the court heard. MB sends X a friend request. X to MB: "Sorry, who are you? I don't know you. MB to X: "Are you [her name]? I played darts with your mum many years ago. Paul [her stepfather], I've known for many years. X to MB: "Yeah, I am her daughter and yeah, he is my dad but I'm still not too sure who you are and why you are adding me." MB to X: "I'm [two of April's friends"] dad. Elaine's ex. X to MB: "Yeah, but that still hasn't really told me why you are adding me. You know my mum and dad, I don't know you. MB to X: "OK, I'm just trying to find old friends." X declines MB's friend request. The next day he was seen driving to and from town, visiting a council office before returning home to view vile child pornography and send Facebook messages to local women asking for "no strings" encounters. He was again spotted driving to town at 4.48pm, as April was about to start her swimming lesson. At 7.19pm, moments after April was taken, Bridger's Land Rover is seen on cameras speeding away from town in the direction of his home in nearby Ceinws, where fragments of juvenile skull and blood stains matching April's DNA were later discovered. Bridger admits killing April but says he accidentally "crushed" and drove off with her before going mentally blank, forgetting what he did with her body. In a series of desperate messages, the slaughterman told the 15-year-old he knew her family and was "trying to find old friends." But the girl refused to accept his friend request after she spoke to her mother, who "told her not to accept it." The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also wrote a series of curt replies to Bridger saying "I don't know you" and asked him: "Why you are adding me?" The court has previously been told how Bridger collected a gallery of photographs of the girl from the internet, telling officers he thought she could be an up and coming model. The pictures were saved on his computer along with those of April, her other half-sisters and murder victims including Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. They were stored in the months before he killed April, and kept with vile child pornography and animations of abused girls. Bridger first made contact with the girl, who is now 17, in June 2011, asking her to be his friend on Facebook. She told police about the messages when she was interviewed after April's disappearance, adding that she declined the request. Yesterday the jury in the trial of the former abattoir worker were taken by coach to the 47-year-old's white-washed cottage, and led through the rooms where the five-year-old may have been murdered. Inside police say they found blood and bone fragments from missing schoolgirl April Jones. The jurors were shown around the cottage - and shown photographs after police scoured it for clues. The coach driver waited a short while before setting off for the next leg of their viewing - a lay-by where a prosecution witness saw Bridger on the morning of October 2 with a black bin bag. He told detectives he was going to the toilet.