Without doubt, Nine has put a huge effort into writing about the Joanna Yeates murder case and had Tabak not confessed or DNA from him been found on the victim, this case might very well have turned out completely differently. However, Vincent Tabak did admit to killing Joanna in what appears to have been quite simply a moment of madness.
I don't believe for a moment that this murder was premeditated otherwise he would have gone to much more trouble to hide his victim's remains. As it was, he panicked and drove around looking for somewhere to dump her. He tried to lift the body over a wall and had he succeeded it would have fallen into a quarry and might not have been discovered for some time if at all leaving few forensic clues to find.
I agree with Nine that the body could not have lain where it was found for any significant length of time. This was a public road and the verge was very narrow, even covered as it was in leaves any walker would have found it suspicious.
Not a dog walking area either. It is far too dangerous. However, across the road , there is a car park leading to woods, and I believe this is where people would walk their dogs.
So how did the Birches manage to find her on a grass verge?? They were walking their dogs, You are right mrswah, it is busy, and that is why I cannot understand how Joanna Yeates was found on a grass verge on Longwood Lane close to the quarry entrance...
She had to be somewhere more inaccessible , thats why they used the fire truck, If they were trying to just shield the area, they could have used tarpaulin, as they did at the back of the Flats... But A fire truck with a winch suggests that they need to reach her from a difficult position...
The area that she was discovered changed before trial, she was on a golf course at one point... There were images detailing where she was found,
Police hunting for the missing Bristol architect Joanna Yeates sealed off part of a golf course after a young woman's body was found by a couple walking their dogs on this morning. The discovery was made in the Failand area, about four miles outside the city centre.
Media of course may get details wrong, but that wrong?
If Joanna yeates was actually found on the grass verge as was sated at trial, she simply couldn't have lain there for over 8 days. So was she at another location before? making Longwood Lane the 3 scene of Crime....
If Joanna yeates was moved closer to the time of discovery, which really seems more than likely if we are to believe that Longwood Lane is actually the discovery sight, then Dr Vincent Tabak couldn't have moved her...
He was in Cambridge from the 23rd December 2010 , I believe and then went to Holland from Cambridge to see his family arriving back in Bristol on the 2nd January 2011..
How would Dr Vincent Tabak be able to move her again?? He wouldn't.....
There are 3 forensic tents on Longwood Lane at this time.... None of which were used to cover Joanna Yeates body....They used 7 fire appliances over 4 days, the parents were allowed to walk around the Scene of Crime on the 27th December 2010, there is no way that when the scene obviously hadn't finished being processed that any member of the public would be allowed to walk around or not even if they are family members...
All indicating that where Joanna Yeates had been discovered could not be on that Lane on a grass verge....
Her body had to be deposited over something... We have had a trial, where we are told, whether or nor we believe what Dr Vincent Tabak has stated on the stand, that Joanna Yeates was found on a grass verge on Longwood lane....
The Prosecution have gone with a grass verge on Longwood lane, The defence have gone with a grass verge on Longwood Lane, everything else suggests otherwise...
This is problematic for many reasons... If the real deposition site is else where, what does that say about the evidence that was presented at trial, The DNA, The Blood evidence that are supposed to conclusively prove that Dr Vincent Tabak was the killer of Joanna Yeates...
The obvious piece of evidence that thens puts the rest of the evidence into question is the evidence I believe Tanya Nickson gave,
Forensic scientist Tanya Nickson, who examined bloodstains found on a wall next to where Miss Yeates had been found on Christmas morning on Longwood Lane, in Failand, said the pattern indicated smearing rather than splattering.
She said this suggested that someone had been attempting to put the body over the wall into the quarry below.
Ms Nickson told the jury: "The presence of the blood on the top of the wall may indicate that an attempt was made to deposit the body over the top of the wall."
Tanya Nickson has told the jury of the location of the blood, and suggested that Dr Vincent Tabak was trying to lift Joanna Yeates over the wall so as to hide her body from sight.....
The more likely scenario is that, Joanna Yeates body was discovered elsewhere, and we have Tanya Nickson, telling us something that was NOT possible, bringing into question her evidence ... not only that bringing all of the blood and DNA evidence into question, therefore telling us that what Dr Vincent Tabak stated on the stand was a tale, that someone.. for whatever reason had him believing was true....
It can't have been true.... 7 Fire appliances working on that scene over 4 days suggests that (A) she was in a different location and (B) that they were needed to retrieve something else... They not only used regular fire trucks but, had used a safety boat also... A boat suggesting that Joanna Yeates was more likely in water,than on dry land...
At trial the Fire Service did not attend, anyone following such a case over the Christmas period could not fail to notice the fire service arriving at the scene, all lined up on Longwood Lane, a fire service, who's services were needed over 4 day, the 29th December 2010 being the last day that they were used...
So why were they not at trial?? why didn't The Defence or Prosecution call anyone from the Fire Service to testify to what they were doing at the scene on Christmas day??
It has been a long time being questioned the location of Joanna Yeates body in that area... Testimony from Andrew Mott and PC Martin faithful telling us that they had to stop a body from thawing.... Well where were they when they had been trying to stop this from happening??
We are now left with, a location that doesn't match the defendants testimony, blood evidence that cannot have been where it was claimed, discounting all of the forensic evidence as being collected correctly, each piece of this evidence putting into question Dr Vincent Tabak's testimony on the stand... Showing us we cannot trust what was stated on the stand by him.... As him lying about his Landlord wasn't accurate either, we have CJ's statements to prove that....
Where Dr Vincent Tabak got the information he told on the stand, I cannot say, but virtually all of it was in the media before trial...
Somebody isn't telling the truth.... I know Dr Vincent Tabak didn't tell the truth on the stand, but who else??
If the evidence of trying to implicate CJ, wasn't heard at trial, how was it used when it came to his sentence?? Dr Vincent Tabak, must have remembered helping CJ on that Saturday 18th December 2010 morning, to help push his car up the drive....
Yet Dr Vincent Tabak has apparently no recollection of this when he is at trial... He believes for some obscure reason that he tried to implicate his Landlord, when we know that simply isn't true...
Dr Vincent Tabak appears to have a false memory of events... clearly indicated by him agreeing that he tried to implicate CJ... What other false memories does Dr Vincent Tabak have to the whole episode??
The evidence suggest that they are all false memories (imo) So therefore why must we believe that Dr Vincent Tabak killed Joanna Yeates??
As for the Birches.... little to nothing is known of these people, they did not attend court, their statement was just read out.... Are they the figment of someone imagination?? Where did their statement come from?? The same with Andrew Mott and PC Martin Faithful, who both describe seeing Joanna Yeates that day... What of their evidence at trial, did they omit to tell us the real location of Joanna Yeates body??
Did Tanya Nickson also omit where abouts and on which wall she found her evidence??
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