Taking one point at a time. I agree the almost absence of DNA is concerning to say the least. In the circumstances in which Joanna was killed one would expect to find various pieces of a forensic puzzle to fit together. Ultimately however, all that was found was one DNA sample linking Tabak to the victim and then only after a special technique had been used to enhance it. Out of interest, do we have access to the forensic report relating to this find?
In relation to the visit to Asda and to picking up his then girlfriend, is there a timeline available depicting Tabak and the victims movements on the night she was murdered?
Your last point. With the best will in the world I don't see how anyone could 'clean' a crimescene let alone do it in a matter of minutes.
No report I'm afraid John.. That would be perfect if that was available to see... Especially as Lyndsey Lennen had said she turned the DNA around in 48 hours everything as well as the suspects clothes. Surley it would have a date on the report!
Which has always begged the question?
How did she have access to Dr Vincent Tabaks clothing so early on in the investigation?
And why did the Police say it to weeks to enhance the DNA profile???
As we have mentioned the DNA, there was something I came across yesterday...
Clegg: you never answered any of the police questions except about the telephone calls. Why was
that?
I was following the advice of my solicitor who told me not to say anything at all.
Clegg: In your first statement, you lied, Why did you lie?
I was hoping that they didn’t have enough evidence and was hoping they would let me go.
Clegg: When did you realise that they had enough evidence
When I leant that they found DNA on the body.
You met Brotherton and told him why you did.
Did you want to kill Joanna:
No definitely not
Now.... which first statement is he referring too???
Because that sounds like he is in custody... So that cannot be his first statement..
Or is he referring to the Interview in Holland????
Nope it definatley sounds like he is in custody.... Because he goes on to say he was hoping they would let him go!!!
Ok... think i need to look at this as two possibilities to try and make sense out of it!!
So If we start with the first statement being when they Interviewed him in Holland... Then that would make the Holland interview a suspect statement and not a witness statement. The reason I say this is because he then goes onto say
was hoping they would let me go.
And the police had always implied that this was a little trip to get a supplementary statement about a car changing position!!!
Which I never believed in the first place... especially when the police woman says:
At the end of the process
Which sounds like he was being interrogated as a suspect and not a witness, no matter how nicely she believed she had dressed it up!!
Or we look at his first statement as being when they had him in custody at the police station, and as he says he kept quite about most things.. Then that doesn't make sense either...
If he kept quite.. How could he lie???
Why would he say that he was hoping they would let him go?? Must be in custody!!
So he's in custody , saying virtually nothing , yet he was supposed to have lied and even though the prosecution have stated he followed the on going case, so that he could keep abreast of every part of the investigation.. He must have know about DNA..
Clegg: When did you realise that they had enough evidence
When I leant that they found DNA on the body.
Then later he says that once they took a DNA sample in Holland he knew it would be a "sure match??? "
So which is the first statement???????
If in Holland he gave his DNA sample, he must have know that they were checking it against some other sample, whether it was found in the flat or on her body.. So why would he voluntarily give this sample?? To incriminate himself???
Clegg: When did you realise that they had enough evidence
When I leant that they found DNA on the body.
This implies that they are telling him whilst he's in custody that they found DNA on Joanna Yeates, but he was supposed to have searched about frozen DNA in January before his arrest.....
So if he knew they had DNA evidence that would match him why would he even think they would let him go????
The contradictions in the evidence that even the defence has is crazy... Nothing clean cut!!!
EDIT:.... Another statement Dr Vincent Tabak says at trial:
And you went to Holland over Christmas
Yes
Then in Holland the police took your DNA . What did you think would happen?
I was thinking I would be arrested anytime.
Clegg: Do you know what DNA is?
Yes
What did you think if they found DNA on Joanna?
A sure match.
Again if he knew when they took his DNA in Holland why would he say:
When I leant that they found DNA on the body.
So is this Holland Interview his first statement????? He wants them to let him go!!!!
Which in my mind means that they detained him under Dutch Law and the 6 hour interview of a suspect!!!!!!
https://philpapers.org/archive/RAMTMT-4.pdf