Bristol Murders (Sutton True Crime History)

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During the trial a press contingent, including this reporter from the Bristol Post, was given access to Jo and Greg's flat after the jury had viewed it. Speaking on 29 December about the murder investigation Yeates's father said, "I fear that whoever has done this will never hand themselves in, but we live in hope that the police will catch who is responsible. Around 300 people protested in Bristol city centre, with banners reading "All Lives Matter" and "We are NOT FAR RIGHT". Spotting a chance to frame Jefferies, he contacted Avon and Somerset police and suggested the landlord had been out and about in his car on the night of Yeates's death. Speaking to reporters at the scene yesterday afternoon, Inspector Tola Munro said: "We’re working hard to establish the full circumstances which led to this man’s death and while our inquiry is at a very early stage, we’re confident this is an isolated incident between two people known to each other.

Vincent Tabak, a 32-year-old Dutch architectural engineer and the occupant of a third flat in the building, was arrested on 20 January 2011. Both were also convicted of conspiracy to kidnap, perverting the course of justice, preventing the lawful burial of a body and possession of two stun guns. Detectives also began tracking the movements of several hundred registered sex offenders living within their jurisdiction to determine the individuals' whereabouts on 17 December. On Christmas morning, at about the time Tabak and Morson – who remained ignorant of her boyfriend's crime – were opening their gifts, Yeates's body was found by a dog walker, covered in leaves and a pile of snow next to a quarry wall at Longwood Lane, Failand, three miles from Clifton.Tabak says she screamed, and to stop her he gripped her throat with his right hand and put his left over her mouth. Police examined surveillance video from Clifton Suspension Bridge (left), but were aware that Avon Bridge (right) could have been used to avoid CCTV coverage. At the end of October, police released further details about the arrests being made in connection with the incident.

In February 2016, a wooden bench was unveiled in Watts's memory, located in Goat's Field, close to her home. It was the prosecution's case that Watts was suffocated in her bedroom during a "sexually-motivated" kidnap plot carried out by Matthews and Hoare. However, on 8 February, he told Peter Brotherton, a prison chaplain, that he had killed her and intended to plead guilty.Two people were charged with the murder of five-week-old Sean Clark, who died in Warmley back in 2018. Below we look at some of the other crimes committed in past decades that, for now, remain a mystery.

He talked to her about Jefferies but seemed, in Thomas's words, "overly interested" in the forensic examinations police were carrying out. Jefferies was released on police bail on New Year's day and Avon and Somerset police found themselves on the back foot, having to deny they were back to square one. Jo Yeates was a landscape architect who had only recently moved to Bristol when the company she and her boyfriend Greg Reardon worked for moved from Winchester to Bristol earlier that year. St Luke's Church in Barton Hill was found on fire by patrolling police officers at approximately 11.

The lawyers representing Christopher Jefferies say "his name has been blackened, and his privacy invaded" during the Joanna Yeates murder investigation".