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Jon Brain reports from Mold Crown Court, where a recorded police interview with April's friend was played in court
A friend who was playing with five-year-old April Jones before she went missing told police she had a "happy face" as she got into a vehicle.
April disappeared near her home in Machynlleth, Powys, on 1 October, 2012. She has never been found.
The jury at the Mold Crown Court trial of Mark Bridger, 47, who denies her abduction and murder, has been played a police interview with April's friend.
The seven-year-old girl said a man got out of a Land Rover then April got in.
In the interview with a police officer made the day after April went missing, the girl said: "Me and her [April] were playing."
End Quote April's friendAll the windows on it were quite clean they were. The vehicle was clean but the tyres weren't"
She said there was a "man by his van" and she described how she saw April "by the Land Rover van".
"I saw her by the person that was waiting by the van," she said.
Asked if she had seen the Land Rover there before, she said: "It looks familiar because I have seen [two other people] in it before."
Later in the interview, she said: "She [April] didn't say that she was going to go in it."
She went on to say: "The man didn't take her in the van. She got in the van having a happy face."
The interviewer asked her to draw a Land Rover and she continued to draw as the interviewer asked her questions about the vehicle.
She said the wheels "were quite big" and remembered them being muddy.
"All the windows on it were quite clean. The vehicle was clean but the tyres weren't," she said.
Asked who she saw in the Land Rover, she said: "A man."
"The man got out of the van. He was waiting outside the van for someone... I don't know why she wanted to go because her mum and dad told her not to go into cars like that," she said.
She added: "She got in the car. She wasn't crying. She was happy. She got in the back of the van and it just drove off the same way it came."
She said she did not hear any talking because "I was too far away to hear it".
The friend said April got into the vehicle through the driver's door because the two back doors were locked and "they were broken".
Asked how she knew they were broken, she said: "April tried to open them, she did, and they wouldn't work... so she had to get through that way."
"That's what I actually saw," she said.
She said April's brother arrived a few minutes later and said it was time for her to go home.
She gave April's bike to her brother and went back to their homes.
The alarm was then raised.
'Brown hair'Describing the man, the girl said: "He had green or blue eyes, brown hair I think... I think he was wearing a jacket or a jumper... he was wearing some jeans and he was wearing some trainers..."
Asked in more detail about the man's appearance, she said: "I think he had brown hair. I'm sure he had brown hair but I'm not sure about anything else."
She said he was "definitely outside" the vehicle and was standing between the Land Rover and a BT van.
The girl has begun to give evidence via video link from Aberystwyth. Two screens in court show her watching the proceedings. She had a teddy bear on the desk in front of her.
The judge Mr Justice John Griffith Williams said: "It's very important that you tell us the truth. Will you do that?"
"Yes," she said.
Defence counsel Brendan Kelly QC began by asking a woman sat in the room with the girl to show her pictures of Bryn-Y-Gog, the estate where April lived.
Earlier, as the day's proceedings got under way the judge, Mr Justice John Griffith Williams, reassured the girl before asking her: "Can you remember some months ago, going to Newtown and being interviewed by a police officer?"
"Yes," she replied.
The judge said: "What we're going to do is, we're going to watch that film and you are going to watch it as well. It's rather long and so we'll be taking a lot of breaks, just to help you."
Mr Bridger stared up at the screen on the wall to his left. There were three security guards in the dock with him.
April's parents, Coral and Paul, were in court on Tuesday.
On Friday, the jury heard about her parents' last moments with her.
A statement from her mother read out in court said she had been allowed out to play after "a little bit of a tantrum".
Coral Jones said that after 20 minutes it was getting dark and cold so she wanted her daughter to come back into the house.
She sent April's brother to look for her and he came home in a "hysterical state" saying she had been seen getting into a car with a man.
Mrs Jones immediately called police before she and her husband Paul searched the Bryn-Y-Gog estate, where they live.
Prosecutors have told the court that the defendant killed April in a sexually motivated attack and traces of her blood were found at his cottage.
Prosecuting counsel Elwen Evans QC said the defendant burned evidence in his fire and used detergent as part of an "extensive clean-up".
But blood stains found within the cottage matched the DNA of the five-year-old, she said.
The defendant told police during interviews he accidentally hit April with his car and "panicked," the jury was told.
The accused man also denies intending to pervert the course of justice.
April's disappearance sparked the biggest police search in UK history.
The case continues.
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