Her father expressed his fears that Joanna may have been abducted from her flat after returning home. The yellow marker on the road indicates where the body was found on the verge source: The Telegraph. On Christmas Day, their worst nightmare was confirmed. By the 28th, the pathologist determined that the cause of death was strangulation. There was no evidence that Joanna had been sexually assaulted. Joanna was fully clothed, however was not wearing a coat and had one sock missing.
The sock was a long, grey ski sock; it was not found in her flat or anywhere near where her body was discovered. The sock became an important part of the investigation, detectives believing that the killer may have kept it as a trophy. Christopher Jefferies, a year-old retired English teacher at local private school Clifton College, was well known in the community. He was active with the local Liberal Democrats, helping out in election campaigns and was also heavily involved in the Neighbourhood Watch scheme in Clifton.
Jefferies was an eccentric character, sometimes making bold statements such as dyeing his hair blue. Former students described him as an unconventional but inspiring teacher. The neighbours told investigators that Jefferies had said he had seen Joanna, however, Jefferies clarified that he had not specifically seen Joanna, but rather had only seen three people.
However, Jefferies was arrested on suspicion of murder early on the morning of December 30th The media had a field day over the arrest of Jefferies.
There really was no other reason for this other than the fact that Jefferies was, admittedly, odd-looking and eccentric. After being questioned by detectives for 2 days, Jefferies was released on bail on January 1st, Understandably, once he was no longer a suspect in the murder investigation, Jefferies sued eight UK newspapers for libel. His lawyer spoke out on the matter:. Vincent Tabak was a year-old Dutch national who was working in Bristol as an engineer.
He lived in the flat next door to Joanna and Greg with his girlfriend, Tanja Morson. He was cooperative and nothing of interest in the investigation was found during the search. Tabak and Morson travelled to Cambridge to stay with her family on the 24th.
Tabak was accused in court of having committed the attack based on sexual thrills, which seemed far more feasible when it emerged that Joanna had sustained 43 injuries in the lead-up to her death. It took sufficient force to kill her. There was no sign of a use of a ligature. He might have let go but he did not. He knew that Miss Yeates was in pain and struggling to breathe. Despite that, Vincent Tabak continued to hold and squeeze her neck to kill her. The court heard that following the murder, Tabak placed Joanna's body in the boot of his car and drove to Asda where he was filmed on CCTV buying beer, crisps and rock salt.
While sentencing Vincent Tabak the judge, Mr Justice Field, called the murder a "dreadful, evil act", and deemed the defendant "very dangerous", "thoroughly deceitful, dishonest and manipulative". David and Teresa Yeates did not attend court on the day of the verdict, after finding the anticipation too difficult to endure.
They released a statement afterwards, however, saying: "The best we can hope for him is that he spends the rest of his life incarcerated, where his life is a living hell being the recipient of all the evils, deprivations and degradations that his situation can provide. We so miss her happy voice and seeing her living life to the full. Sign up to our newsletter to get more articles like this delivered straight to your inbox.
Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. And Just Like That has a release date and trailer! Meghan on the money saving trick she still uses. Your first look at Hocus Pocus 2 is here! Best Christmas decorations for Getty Rex. Some of the reports about Jefferies led to him launching a series of libel cases and winning damages from eight publications. Tabak and his former girlfriend, Tanja Morson, had been in the Netherlands over Christmas, a jury later heard.
Tabak was arrested on 20 January and eventually pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Yeates, but not her murder. He claimed during the court case that Yeates had invited him over, according to reports by The Guardian , and that he had tried to kiss her after she made a flirty comment, but she screamed. As such he said he covered her mouth to try to quieten her and put another hand on her neck.
It emerged that Yeates was killed by strangulation. After she died, the prosecution told the court how Tabak had put her body in the boot of his car and drove to a country road just outside Bristol, where he left her body on a verge near a quarry.
They have suggested Tabak might have been spying on Yeates and may have found an excuse to knock on her door that night rather than being spontaneously invited in. The attack may have started in the hallway, which was found in a chaotic state. It could have continued in the bedroom: one of the earrings Yeates is thought to have been wearing was discovered beneath the duvet.
There is also the possibility that something may have happened after Tabak carried Yeates's body back to his own flat. Certainly, according to the prosecution, there was a delay of more than an hour before he put her body into the boot of his car and drove it away.
Finally, what police and pathologists discovered when they examined Yeates's body suggested more went on than Tabak admits to recalling. She had suffered 43 injuries, including wounds to her face, throat and arms.
Though her jeans had not been tampered with, her T-shirt had been pulled up above her breasts and part of her right breast exposed. A sample of Tabak's DNA was found on her chest, however scientists could not establish what it came from.
The bottom line is that nobody apart from Tabak can say what happened — and he claims his memory of exactly what happened remains sketchy. Not at all sketchy are the last known moments of Yeates's life. They have become all too familiar. She vanished eight days before Christmas after leaving the Ram pub on Park Street in Bristol, where she had been enjoying after-work drinks with work colleagues. It was cold and snow and ice lay thick on the pavements.
Yeates bought a tomato, mozzarella and basil pizza from a supermarket and picked up two bottles of cider from an off-licence. Police believe she got back to her Clifton flat, which was already decorated in readiness for Christmas, at about 8.
Within moments — at about 8. And then silence. Yeates's boyfriend, Greg Reardon, returned from a weekend away on the evening of Sunday 19 December to find Yeates missing, though her mobile phone, keys, purse and coat were there. At Tabak answered and denied all knowledge.
His denial led to — in Tabak's own words — a "week of hell" for Yeates's family and friends. Over the next seven days police and family issued a series of increasingly desperate appeals for help in finding her.
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