(100) * Before zipping it up Tabak removed one of Joanna's ski socks
(101)* Tabak took Joanna back to his Flat with the fresh Pizza, he sat with the body and picked up his mobile
phone.(shows a Blackberry)
(102) * What we know is that at 9:25 pm on the Friday evening he text his girlfriend.And in his text he said..
Missing you loads I'm bored V XXX
(103) * Then Tabak carried Joanna's Grey Renault car where he bundled the body into his boot. 25 minutes later
Joannas boyfriend Greg Reardon sent her a text.
(104) * Jo's boyfriend had gone to Sheffield in the afternoon , he text her to say he had arrived there safely as
she'd asked him to do because the weather wasn't particularly good at the time of year.He got no response
to that text .
(105) * Tabak drove to an ASDA supermarket 4 miles from his flat and bought some rock salt beer and crisps.
(106) * He was on CCTV at that supermarket at 10:30pm on that Friday evening. And whilst he was at the
supermarket he sent another text message. Stating again that he was bored" I am at the supermarket
buying a packet of Crisis.. Missing you loads Vxxx
(107) * Whether Crisis was genuinley Crisis or predictive text we dont know.
(108) * Tabak was due to pick up his girlfriend at 1:00am, but he had Joanna Yeates in the boot of his car.. he had
to get rid of it. ( Show s the park street CCTV clip)
(109) * So he drove out of the city to Longwood Lane
(110) * Longwood Lane is a cut through it's a commuter area, and its on the other side of Clifton suspension bridge.
(111) * On eitherside of Longwood Lane is a quarry ( aeril view)
(112) * Tabak parked by a walk dividing the road from the quarry opened the boot of his car and grabbed Joanna
body
(114) * The Police and The forensics had noticed he made a couple of failed attempts to lift her body over a stone
wall by the side of the country lane. Behind the stone wall is a quarry, so he left it by the roadside of the
grass verge. And made an attempt to cover it with some dead leaves and left it there.
(115) * The bike cover used to carry Joanna body has never been found, Tabak then drove back to Canygne Road
(116) * (CJ) As I was on my way out to the gym I met Vincent Tabak and we had a very brief conversation and he
seemed to be in quite an elated mood , he said what a beautiful evening it was there was a light dusting of
snow.
(117) * 5 Hours after he had killed Joanna, Tabak collected his girlfriend and drove home, that night it snowed.
(118) * We know from local CCTV at sports clubs that it started to snow at 2:30am on the Saturday morning and it
was heavy snow fall then up until around 8'O'clock.
(119) * By the following morning Joanna's body was covered in snow and was hidden from view
(120) * The snow had also covered the drive of 44, Canygne Road.
(121) * (CJ) Vincent Tabak helped me move the car that morning because there was snow on the drive and I
needed some help. When I thanked Vincent his reply was.. well what are neighbours for.
(122) * That Saturday he went to another party and was drinking champagne.acting normally to all intense.
(123) * At 10:30am on that Sunday after the murder Vincent Tabak was in his flat and back surfing the net
(124) * He was searching maps and pacifically looking at Longwood Lane. In addition to that he started looking at
searches on Google looking at body decomposition. He put other searches in such as extradition, CPS,
comparison between Murder and manslaughter and what you get if you go to prison.
(125) * While Tabak was on his computer Joanna's boyfriend returned to the Flat.
(126) * The thing about Jo was that she was predictable, she didn't do walk abouts.. Go off and tell anyone where
she going. (Mr yeates) Greg was going away for the weekend and we knew that Jo would be there, um..
er.... to be there when he got back. Her not being there when he got back set all sorts of alarm bells.and
erm... he knew something was seriously wrong. We didn't know what.
(127) * Jo hadn't responded to any texts or phone calls that he'd left.and he found the flat with Jo absent with no
apparent reason for it... her purse all her personal bits and pieces was still there.
(128) *(Mrs Yeates) Greg phoned us and said is Jo Wizz you and I thought well thats a funny question. And then it
all evolved and I knew when (shakes head) I knew immediately she was dead.There was No how or why or
whatever.It was just a feeling.
(129): * The Police considered her disappearance so unusual that they swept the place with CSI teams.
(130) * Forensics of the Flat have continued all morning but now said to have been completed.
(131) * searches are going on elsewhere some 30 detectives have been assigned for this case and another 40 staff
have been deployed with what remains still a Missing Persons inquiry.
(132) * After 8 days of searching all that changed... On christmas day morning there were 2 dog walkers around
about 9:00 o'clock walking their dog and they identified a mound. On the side of the road on a verge.
(133) *On closer inspection they could see underneath snow a body of a person.. Forensic experts were called to the
scene, it was identified it was a body and it was believed early on that it was the body of Joanna yeates.
(134) * Her body was so cold, it had frozen to the ground beneath
(135) * (David Yeates) We were woken up by erm.. Police liaison Officer phoning us saying a body's been found, we
believe it to be Jo... I was overjoyed.. we had talked things over and fairly certain in our minds whatever
happened to her she was now dead.
(136) * It was now a murder inquiry and Detectives sealed of Joannas Flat and Interviewed everyone who knew her,
but vincent tabak was not at home. He'd spent Christmas day in Cambridge with his girlfriends parents. and
travelled to Holland ready to spend New Year with his...
(137) *(Ann Redrrop) When he got there he made a telling phone call.. whilst he was out of the country there was
telephone contact with The Police and Ballack (Who's Ballack??) 33:54 in which he with hindsight quite
cleverly sowed the seeds of possibly his landlord Chris Jefferies being more involved in the disappearance of J
Jo.. Than was actually the case.
(138) * Mr Tabak came onto the phone and wanted to provide what was important information to the
Investigation.And that was that on the Saturday morning that was the 18th December He saw.. when he
came out in the morning he saw. Christopher Jefferies car was parked in a different position
(139) * So I was arrested on the 30th December only a few days after Jo's body had been discovered. erm it was
7:00 o'clock in the morning
(140) * Jefferies was taken in for questioning had tabak seemingly diverted Police attention away from himself.
(141) * I sent two of my Officers across to The Netherlands because, Vincent tabak was now in the netherlands with
his girlfriend, for the new year.
(142)* A detective meet with tabak in a hotel, near Amsterdams skripol Airport
(143) * Tabak is an educated very well educated man, when they spoke to him in the Netherlands. He came across
as very nervous. very concerned asking unusual questions. Around Forensics, leaving forensic traces and
DNA, he'd also mentioned he'd been in the Flat when Christopher Jefferies was cleaning it or decorating it...
(144) * The suspicious detective asked tabak to give a sample of his DNA and he reluctantly agreed.It was his
downfall. But he would deny murder claiming he killed Joanna by accident.
(145) * He knew what he was doing ... The correct charge is Murder... And that is why we proceeded to the trial.
(146) * Joanna Yeates frozen body was discovered on Christmas day 2010 by a road south of Bristol . On News
years day her landlord Chris Jefferies was released on Police Bail.
(147) * well they um.. released me after 3 days in custody, because it was pretty obvious to everyone, that they
had no evidence .. None of the Forensic test which they had conducted were in anyway positive.
(148): * Tabak came back to the UK after his break in Holland on the 2nd of January to a stalling Police
Investigation .
(149): detectives called a Police Conference, to reveal that Miss yeates body was Missing a sock, when it was found
near Bristol
(150) * But behind the scenes the Forensics teams were making gradual progress..
(151) * The fact that Jo's body was effectively deep frozen , meant the Police couldn't run no form of examination of
her body..So it took quite alot of time... Meaningful time to get any forensic results.'From Her"... ( when
Ann Redrrop says 'From Her".. she emphasises .. The .. "From Her as two deliberate words .. whilst her chin
moves out to emphasise the fact.)
(153) * But eventually clues began to emerge they found tiny amounts of DNA on Jo's body, and it wasn't her's
(154)* The area's where these profiles were on the back of her knees, which her knees were folded, which is were
she would have been carried... and it was also on the chest area... So there is a likelyhood that they could
have been left there by the offender carrying Joannas body..
(155) * But... The positioning was such that it was... could only have been the person either who murdered her or
moved her body . That would have their DNA there and that was Tabak's..
(156)* Having seen the plan to frame Chris Jefferies backfire , Tabak had been expecting to be arrested when he
returned from Holland, but the knock on the door hadn't come.. And he had passed the time
uncharacteristically popping pills. He said he even considered suicide, but the Police caught up with him
before he could try.
(157)* When Tabak was arrested he wasn't staying at Flat 2.. his norma address with his girlfriend , but they were
staying at another address in Bristol.In The Redland area of Bristol which is a couple of miles away from
Bristol. We arrived there around 6 O'clock in the morning.. erm and er , he was in a state of shock as was
his girlfriend.
(158) * Tabak was questioned for 96 hours.
(159):* At no stage did he admit Murdering Joanna Yeates. What is of significance is that when he was in custody,
we seized his.. The Renault Megane car.. We knew hed been driving on the Friday evening , that was his
girlfriends car.. When we examined the car we found specks of blood on the rubber seal just inside the
boot..
(160) * Vincent Tabak was charged with the Murder of Joanna Yeates,and his trial date was set.. But.. he was taken
to london To The Old Bailey for a preliminary hearing where he entered a plea..
(161) * he actually pleaded guilty to her manslaughter...... That day... Now that was the first time that Vincent
Tabak had taken any responsibility at all for the death of Jo.. And (shaking her headand noding at the same
time) he admitted that he was the person that killed her....
(162) * But all concerned wanted a murder conviction
(163) * our case was... he knew what he was doing ... (head nodding) The correct charge is Murder and thats why
we proceeded to the trial then took place in Bristol in October
(164) * Each and every step in this murder investigation has been followed, showed little sign of letting up as the
man accused of killing Jo Yeates arrived in court..Inside the queue to see Vincent Tabak appear was so long
court staff struggled to accomodate the visitors..
(165) * During the trial Tabak showed little emotion... most of the time he spent in the dock with his hhead in his
hands or with his head bowed below the level of the doc... Er.. But... when he came to give evidence in his
defence.. He broke down... and cried and apologised across the court room to Jo's parents.. and family
who were sat just feet from him.. Moments earlier he'd explained and showed with his hands how he had
gripped her neck and throttled her .. And begged for their forgiveness.
(166)* I can't understand why people forgive people who have killed... chosen to kill somebody.. I mean it's not a
car accident which is pretty dreadful.. He chose to kill Jo he could have walked away... he chose to kill her
(167) * he had the power of life or death.. to act as god towards my daughter. He took away Jo's primary Human
right... How can you forgive somebody for that... I do not understand..
(168) * And the jury were in No mood for Clemency... They took 2 days to reach their verdict.. On the 28th of
October 2011 Tabak was found guilty of Joanna Yeates Murder.. He was jailed for life , with a minimum
term of 20 years..
(169) * We knew he'd killed Jo.. he sort of admitted killing Jo.. and erm... No.. I really wasn't... My feeling towards
him was cold. Whether he exists or doesn't exist.... . I don't care ( Mr Yeates speaking)
(170) * If I though that he cared ,i'd have a feeling towards him, but I don't think he does so...
(171) * ( DCI Phil Jones) I think it was David Yeates said to me , that Vincent Tabak's trial for us coming to Bristol is
like walking into a soap opera.. it was a particular difficult time for them and it always will be...
(172) * The media circus had been intense.. after the trial both the Police and the press faced critisisim..
(173) * well during the time that I was in Police custody.. all sorts of extraordinary articles and erm.. Alligations
appeared in the press.. At the time I certainly (CJ has a wry smile on his face) wasn't aware that the press
was the least bit interested ( almost laughing) in the fact that I had been arrested . The libels were so
extreme in many cases that no of the papers that were sued contested.
(174)* Following the release of her body.. Joanna Yeates family held her funeral at St marks Church of Ampfield
Hampshire.. And had her buried in the church yard..
(175) * It now pans to a shot of a small cross in the ground with the inscription " Joanna Claire Yeates, died 25th
December 2010 aged 25 years"
(176) * Life does go on for people who didn't know Jo.. our family I feel sure that all my family think about Jo over
Christmas because that was when she was found.... There's not a case of the world stopping , just
remembering..
Then it shows a flash card that says...
"On The 2nd march 2015 Vincent Tabak was convicted of possessing indecent images of children that were on his computer at the time of his arrest for Murder. He was sentenced to 10 months to run concurrently with his life sentence..
The odd thing then is that they run the credits , and it finishes with... Crackit productions for channel 5... crackit Production LTD 2014... ( how does that work???)
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