The jury trying a man accused of murdering five-year-old April Jones in a sexually motivated attack has visited the estate where she went missing, and will also see his home nearby.
Mark Bridger, 47, from Ceinws, Powys, denies abducting and murdering April, who disappeared near her home in Machynlleth on 1 October 2012.
On Thursday, jurors arrived to see key locations in connection with the case.
Prosecutors have told Mold Crown Court that blood found at his home was hers.
'Extensive clean-up'There were blue skies and sunshine as the jury arrived in Machynlleth, with pink ribbons put up to mark April's disappearance still visible.
The jury's first visit was to April's school, Machynlleth Junior School, on the edge of Bryn-Y-Gog estate where April lived and disappeared from while playing with friends.
Jurors were accompanied by several police motorcycle outriders and a police car, and officers stopped traffic going to the area of the estate where they were.
The court heard on Wednesday that April's parents Coral and Paul and the defendant had attended parents' evenings at the school on the evening April disappeared.
The jury then walked from the school to the estate itself, and is due to to visit other locations including Mr Bridger's home.
The next port of call was the war memorial in Machynlleth via the back road from Bryn-y-Gog before jurors were taken to Machynlleth Leisure Centre, where the last known CCTV images of April were recorded.
The court on Wednesday was shown footage of April arriving at the leisure centre with a friend shortly after 16:30.
While she was at the leisure centre, her mother and father went to her school for a parents' evening.
The jurors were also taken to the clock tower in the centre of Machynlleth - close to where Mr Bridger was seen on CCTV on the day April went missing - and Tuffins garage which the court has heard he was seen driving past.
Prosecuting counsel Elwen Evans QC has told the court the defendant burned evidence in his fire at home and used detergent as part of an "extensive clean-up".
But blood stains at various locations around Mr Bridger's house matched April's DNA, she said.
Ms Evans said that when the prosecution referred to a one-in-a-billion match "that is, in fact, April's blood".
Tests on bone fragments at Mr Bridger's house "strongly support" the fact they came from a human skull, she said.
The prosecution had outlined Mr Bridger's movements on the day of April's disappearance.
He had approached two young girls - aged eight and 10 - who were playing on bicycles, the court was told.
One was friendly with his daughter and he invited her for a sleepover but she declined and he drove away.
Earlier in the day he had propositioned three women via Facebook asking two of them to meet up "with no strings attached".
He had also exchanged texts with a former girlfriend about their break-up.
Mr Bridger had told police during interviews he had accidentally hit April with his car and "panicked", the jury was told.
"I didn't abduct her. I did my best to revive her," he said.
The defendant also denies intending to pervert the course of justice.
The trial continues.
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