April Jones trial: Sobbing and gasping for air, mother called 999 to beg for help Mrs Jones made the 999 call at 7.29pm on Oct 1. She said: "Please, please, I think my daughter has been kidnapped ... my daughter was with her friend and she has been kidnapped." Clearly panicking and unable to continue, the call was taken over by a neighbour, Valerie Jones, who said: "Well apparently what happened, she's gone off in a car with somebody, somebody's picked her up in a car or something." The neighbour then tells the emergency call operator that April was taken in a "big grey car that a man was driving." She said April's mother, father and a neighbour were "panicking" and out looking for her. The neighbour went on: "Everybody's just scattered everywhere to go and look now, and I'm just by the house." The operator was heard to ask to speak to April's mother again, but by that point she could be heard sobbing and struggling for breath in the background. At 7.37pm, the first officer arrived at the scene and the emergency call was terminated. Mrs Jones and her husband Paul sat in the public gallery throughout the proceedings as Mold Crown Court was told the sequence of events after April was reported missing. Police, mountain rescue and hundreds of volunteers flooded into the area and began what became the biggest search in British history. The court was told that following his arrest on Oct 2, Bridger told police he had enjoyed an extensive military career, which included service with the SAS. This had a direct impact on the way the search was organised, the court was told. Miss Evans said: "The defendant appears to have spent a lot of time outdoors, participating in what he calls survival and bushcraft. He claimed to know the rugged terrain around Machynlleth well, and that's been a significant feature in police determining the size, scope and scale in their search for April. The defendant told people he had a career in the Armed Services, including serving in the SAS and had excelled during his military service. Military records have, of course, been checked. His account of any career in the Army, in the Forces, was a lie and a fantasy. He just never served in the Army. In fact, Bridger worked in an abattoir between 2009 and 2012. More recently, at the time of April's disappearance, he was working as a labourer for a local guesthouse that was being renovated. Next week jurors will hear evidence from April's seven-year-old best friend, who cannot be named for legal reasons. Miss Evans said her evidence would contradict Bridger's claims that he accidentally killed April when he knocked her down in his car. She said: "He said he ran April over so that she was crushed and so she lay pinned under the front tyre. He pulled her out gave her mouth to mouth, put her into the car then drove off to get medical help, which in the event he did not. Miss Evans said April's friend's account would describe how he talked to her before she got into the car "happy and smiling." Bridger denies abduction, murder and actions intending to pervert the course of justice, namely destroying, concealing or disposing of a body. The trial continues.