April Jones' evil killer Mark Bridger attacked in jail as little girl's family warn sicko ‘deserves everything he gets'
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April Jones' killer Mark Bridger has been targeted in jail for a second time
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April was snatched by twisted Bridger while playing near her home in Machynlleth, Powys, in October 2012
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In the first attack, soon after he was jailed, Bridger needed stitches for facial injuries from being slashed with a knife fashioned out of a razor.
The latest attack left Bridger with grazes to his hands.
The Prison Service said his assailant was on report ahead of a hearing to decide his punishment.
Last night, April's half-sister, Hazel, said: 'He deserves everything he's getting.
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'He literally deserves it all.'
Despite one of the largest police searches in British
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Bridger, who rented a flat nearby, was given a whole-life term in 2013 for child abduction, murder, perverting justice and the unlawful concealment and disposal of a body.
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Hazel said: 'I've got kids myself now and it's scary to know there are people like that living on your doorstep.
'I am glad he's in prison for life.
The father of murdered schoolgirl April Jones had tragically died - 12 years on from his daughter's heinous abduction
'He's going to carry on getting hurt.'
April and Hazel's father,
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'He died not knowing where my sister was,' Hazel added.
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