He did say that he turned off the oven and the TV, and that he hung his coat on the stand in the hall, so he would have , at least, left fingerprints.
Caroline has explained the coat, but fibres of his black coat were found on Joanna.
But Lickley said traces of DNA matching Tabak's were found on Yeates's breast and on her jeans, underneath her knees, indicating he probably held her by the legs as he carried her body.
Traces of Yeates's blood were discovered in the boot of Tabak's car, the court heard. Fibres found on Yeates's body indicated she had come into contact with Tabak's black coat and his silver Renault Mégane, the prosecution claimed
I would say He killed her, then went back to his flat to plan his cover up, he had got a decision to make does he leave her body there or does he remove it from the flat. Removing it distances himself from the scene. The narrative being he’s left the door open, he tells you this in his statement, if he shuts it he can’t get back in, he then carriy’s her body into his flat, if he didn’t do this he would have said “I took the bicycle bag to put her body in inside the flat” so he’s telling the truth about bringing the body to the flat because then he would have said “ I then carried it to the car” but no he took the body into his flat and then put the body inside the cover then he takes it to the car. He then leaves the door open so he can go back in to switch the oven off and tv off. This would be Easy for him to switch off and not leave prints, either with a remote control, or at the plug socket switch, or at source, wearing gloves or with an instrument.
By Leaving the body in the flat it would have been risky and would have been a murder investigation straight away, crime scene evidence sought and looked for straight away, but Joanna was a missing person and lots of people go missing so it wasn’t as urgent straight away, so vital evidence would have been lost due to this.. This gives him time to distance himself from the crime and scene, but he would still worried what evidence he might have left inside the flat because once he had closed the door to the flat he would not be able to get back in.
Joanna must have made it back to the flat, her coat boots keys and phone and the Tesco receipt all being found in the flat, items she had on her in the evening, she still had the same clothing on what she went out in that night when she was found, minus her coat and boots ect,it was freezing cold and snow, not a chance would she have gone out with these items and forget the rubbish about a receipt making device and Tabak being related, because that tells me, this is someone not wanting to believe what happened, I’m sorry but there is a big difference in not understanding what happened and not wanting to believe what happened.
If you want to Forget about his confession, forget the DNA and the fibres and the blood in the car, I think the evidence on the computer would have been damaging enough for him, he knew this and so did his defence that’s why he tried for manslaughter, once he admitted guilt they didn’t need to show he had done it, they had to prove it was murder and not manslaughter. The police would have know down to the second when he had looked at things on his computer, Caroline is the computer expert, they would only have to check with his service provider the searches he had done as well on the device. His computer revealied he searched about Jo’s murder before she was reported missing, six days later he’d searched how fast does a body begin to decompose, days after he’d googled the area she was found, he checked local rubbish collection, extradidition arrangements between Holland and UK, hourly updates on the investigation, don’t forget the snuff video the morning of the murder. But do Forget this monster and don’t feel sorry for him, instead Feel sorry for poor Joanna and her parents boyfriend and friends, they are the victims not this monster who decided to take the life of a poor innocent young girl for his own gratification.