April Jones' family keep up online anti-porn fight
The family of murdered five-year-old April Jones have said they will keep fighting for internet search engines to filter out images of child porn.
In a message posted on their Facebook page, April's parents, Coral and Paul, her sister Jazz and brother Harley said they will keep fighting for April's Law to be introduced in 2014.
The message said: "Happy new year to you all. Thank you all for your help. I hope you will all back my family to keep fighting in 2014 for April's Law for the internet. Love to you from the Jones family."
The petition has also gained 2,093 signatures online. In a statement April's father Paul said: "Over the past decade or so numerous children have been abducted, murdered and subjected to horrendous sexual abuse. In the vast majority of cases the abductors have been proved to have been viewing child pornography through searches made via internet search engines.
"We call on the Prime Minister to take action towards stamping out child pornography on the internet, by forcing search engines to filter out any web page that contains child pornography, links to child pornography or that promotes child pornography in any way."
The couple met David Cameron last year to discuss the issue and as a result Google and the Microsoft search engine Bing signed up to ensure 100,000 search terms would return no results that included illegal material and would trigger warnings that child abuse imagery is illegal.
April was abducted from outside her home in Machynlleth on October 1, 2012, by Mark Bridger, who had been looking at child sex abuse images online. Bridger, 47, from Ceinws, near Machynlleth, murdered April in a sexually motivated attack.
Bridger was given a whole-life sentence last May, the length of which he plans to appeal against later this year.
Meanwhile, Jamie Reynolds, who murdered Telford teenager Georgia Williams, is resigned to spending the rest of his life in jail and will not appeal against his whole-life sentence, his solicitor has said.
David Cameron has promised to ensure murderers can be kept in jail for life amid suggestions that the Government could introduce 100-year sentences.
