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- [Chris] December 2010

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started as a perfectly
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The thing that changed everything

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was the weekend when
Joanna Yeates disappeared.

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- [Richard] She's vanished,

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literally vanished into thin air.

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- [Reporter] It was an awful journey

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for the family of Joanna Yeates.

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In front of cameras invited
to record the moment,

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they went to the place
where her body was found.

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[camera clicks]

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- [Darren] The press
interest was immense.

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- Joanna Yeates.

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- Joanna Yeates.
- Joanna Yeates.

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[cameras clicking]

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- [Interviewer] Are you able
to give us

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any detail of what
it was you told them?

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- I'm afraid not, No.

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Anything that I have said,
I have said to the police,

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and I'm not prepared to make
any comments to the media.

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- [Lisa] The press absolutely
annihilated Chris Jefferies.

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[cameras clicking]
It was open season.

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- [Chris] Much to my astonishment,

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I was arrested on
suspicion of Jo's murder.

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- [Bambos] The police
were clearly affected by

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what was being written in the papers.

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- [Richard] 10,000 pounds
Jefferies is your man.

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- [Sandhiya] How on earth
can he have a fair trial?

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- [Darren] It was just that
insatiable need

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to get the exclusives.

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It was detracting from the
hunt for Jo Yeates' killer.

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- [Lisa] This was no longer about Jo.

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It was all about the story.

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It was almost like
she'd been forgotten,

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like her death was incidental.

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[dramatic music swells]

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[phone ringing]

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- [Responder] Go ahead, caller.

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- [Greg] Okay, basically,
I'd gone away for the weekend

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and I come back to find
my girlfriend's not here

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when she was expected to be,

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and all her important
stuff is still in the flat,

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such as her wallet, her keys,
her phone, her glasses, everything,

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and basically I've
just found that now,

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thinking that she'd come
home late and she'd be here,

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but she isn't.

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- [Responder] And what's
her name, please?

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- [Greg] Joanna Yeates.

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[solemn music continues]

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- My name is Richard Bunston.

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In 2010, I was a detective

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on Avon and Somerset's major
crime investigation team.

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Joanna's boyfriend Greg
had been in Sheffield

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and was calling her and
texting her repeatedly

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for a couple of days
with no response.

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Greg came back to the
flat, rang her phone,

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and it was ringing in her pocket.

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Her keys were there.

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Her shoes were there.
Her coat was there.

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She's vanished, literally
vanished into thin air.

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[solemn music]

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Every missing person is
investigated in the same way.

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You look at movements,
you look at phone use,

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you look at friends,

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you look at the last people
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and you build a timeline,
and Jo was no different.

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- We started inquiries
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Greg had been where
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It was very easy to ascertain

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that he'd been up in Sheffield,
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She and Greg had a very
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that they'd been having any
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- We didn't know if there
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drugs or alcohol issues.

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Unfortunately, their flat is close to

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Clifton Suspension Bridge,
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location for people to
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- But there was absolutely nothing.

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She was happy at work, was
popular with her friends.

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There was absolutely no
reason for Jo to go missing.

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- [Richard] The night
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we eventually pieced together
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She went from work to meet
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and then visited a couple
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- She'd gone to the
shops, bought some cider,

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told her friends that she was
gonna be baking all weekend.

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- We were able to find the receipt

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for items that she'd purchased
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so the assumption therefore
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and has gone missing from home.

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- My name is Christopher Jefferies.

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I was Joanna Yeates' landlord.

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My flat was on the first floor

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on the other side of
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[eerie music]

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When Joanna Yeates disappeared,

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the first thing that
her boyfriend Greg did

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was to give me a ring.

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[phone ringing]

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Greg wanted to know whether
I had any idea at all

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as to where she might be.

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I had met Jo once or twice

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after Jo and her boyfriend moved in.

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I can't claim to have
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because she'd only been
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at the time of her disappearance.

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There was one occasion.

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There was a leak into her
flat from the flat above,

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so I was contacted to
see what could be done.

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[solemn music]

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She was very, very pleasant.

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She was perhaps a little bit nervous.

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I say she was a little bit nervous

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because she was just
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at letting me into the flat.

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- Everyone in that building

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needed to be treated
as a potential suspect.

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- I was interviewed by the police

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following Jo's disappearance.

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On the night that Jo disappeared,

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I had arrived back in the
evening at about nine o'clock.

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I had been to the gym.

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I went straight into my flat

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and I spent the rest of
the evening in the flat.

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The police searched the
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- People, they were baffled as
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there was no sign of a break-in.

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- I had keys to the flat.

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- But there was absolutely

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no evidence or clues
or idea where she was.

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- Like any big city.

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Bristol had more than its
fair share of missing persons.

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There are so many of those
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and not all of them end
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Jo's disappearance was
completely out of character.

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We need to publicise this.

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We need to try and find Jo
and find out what's happened to her.

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[notification dings]

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- A press release from
Avon and Somerset Police

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arrived in our inbox,
which notified us

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that Joanna Yeates had been missing

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after a night out in Clifton.

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[solemn music]

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- You engage with the media

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because you need the public's help.

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The dream scenario is that
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you get the messages out there,

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and all being well, very quickly.

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the person concerned is found

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and they're found safe and well.

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- But the job of a crime
reporter isn't necessarily

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just to regurgitate what
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but actually to tell the
public the whole story

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as much as they possibly can.

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- As a local crime reporter,
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and I recall going up to
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trying to speak to neighbors,
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if anyone had seen
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- My flat was on the first floor.

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Joanna had rented one
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on the other side of the building.

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[buzzer buzzes]

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- I remember buzzing on the
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He didn't come down.

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He just answered on the intercom,
but he didn't want speak.

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- [Christopher] I was
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as far as possible.

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- Jo's friends had
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to try and find her.

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- This is only 15 years ago,

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but the social media landscape
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it was a garden.

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That was really one of the
first instances in a major case

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that we have seen people use
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- But as social media
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the most effective way

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to get those kind of
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quickly and effectively
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- On the 21st of
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did their first media
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- If you've got to the
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the family are sitting
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you kind of know that there
are severe concerns about this

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and there are big, big worries.

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sometimes the public can become
quite cynical about them.

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You need to appeal to
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and as much as a police officer

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can stand in front of a camera

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and give a perfectly good
interview, when you've got parents

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sitting in front of cameras in tears,

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who cannot be moved by that?

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Who is not gonna want
to help in some way?

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- Jo, whatever the reason

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that you have not been in
touch over the last few days,

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we want you to know
that we love you dearly.

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- [Officer] She's a white female.

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- It's powerful.

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It really is powerful.

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- When Joanna Yeates went missing,

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I was asked to go up to Bristol

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to try and find out backgrounds,

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to go and meet friends and
family, to befriend people,

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talk to them, hopefully
build up some sort of trust.

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Normally, you really had to

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work at getting a
story over Christmas.

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Everything was closed.
Parliament's not sitting.

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There's no stories going on,

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and suddenly we've got a lovely girl

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with a nice job and a good background

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and she's completely vanished
off the face of the earth.

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- There's a phenomenon called
missing white woman syndrome,

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and that's 100% Jo.

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She was young. She was engaged.

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She was beautiful,

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blonde,

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white,

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middle class.

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Unfortunately, the
media don't always give

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the same amount of attention
to people that go missing

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that aren't of the same colour,

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that aren't of the same
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- She would be someone

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who our readership
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and we'd want to follow the story.

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[gentle music]

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- [Reporter] You mentioned there that
Greg tried to get in touch with her.

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- Where you have a distraught family

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who are desperately
appealing for information

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about a missing member
of their family,

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you don't want a bun fight

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that you might get at some
political press conference.

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[Teresa softly sobbing]

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- We miss her so much.

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- Everybody's on their best behavior,

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trying to be as
sensitive as they can,

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and it's good practice for reporters,

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before the press conference starts,

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to nominate one reporter
to ask the questions,

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and on this occasion, we chose
a woman reporter to do it.

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- [Reporter] You're doing very well.

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[cameras clicking]

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- This might sound terribly
sexist, but I think we felt that

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her parents might respond
better to a female journalist

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because they were talking
about their missing daughter.

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- [Reporter] Forgive me
for asking this,

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but when you go through
all these scenarios,

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you must have contemplated

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that there could be
a dreadful outcome.

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How do you cope with that?
Mrs. Yeates, I'll ask you that.

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- I go numb.

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With all this snow around,
I sometimes picture her lying.

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If, for some reason, she had
collapsed or had been discarded

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and she was alive,

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with all the snow
and the cold, I just

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[Teresa sobs]

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can't bear the thought of it.

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I don't cope with it.

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- The awful thing about
these press conferences,

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that as soon as
somebody gets tearful,

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you hear all the cameras
going off, click,,, click click.

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[Teresa sobbing]
[cameras clicking]

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It looks terribly cynical.

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I don't think you can avoid all that.

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Images of families who are
making appeals tearful and crying

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are inevitably going to be the images

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that will be used in the
newspapers and on TV,

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but you don't want the
people making the appeals

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to have some terrible breakdown.

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This was a chance to talk
to those who loved her,

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who've known her since
the moment she was born,

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who could tell us
much more about her,

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and by them talking lucidly

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and almost happily
about the real Joanna,

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it's the sort of information
that might just prompt

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a witness watching my
program to come forward

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and tell the police what
might have happened to her.

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- She loved life.

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She loved doing things
with her boyfriend.

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She loved doing things
around the home.

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She was a really loving daughter.

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[gentle music continues]
[cameras clicking]

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- Her father was quite
convinced in the early days

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that she had been abducted and
that someone was holding her.

315
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- Please let her go.

316
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- Just let her go if you've got her.

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Let her go and let
her come back to me

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and her dad and her family.

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[Teresa sobs]

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Please.

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- If you have her, or if she is dead,

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please tell somebody where she is.

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- We want her back.
- We want her back.

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- Forever.

325
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[gentle music continues]

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[Teresa sighs]

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- It was unimaginable horror

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that that family were experiencing.

329
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- I still see their faces.

330
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- [Reporter] Is there
anything else that you feel

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that we've left out that you'd
like to say at this stage?

332
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- No, I don't think so.
- No.

333
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- [Reporter] Thank
you very much indeed.

334
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- Thank you.

335
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[Teresa sighs]

336
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[Teresa and David groan]

337
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[somber music]

338
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- There were a number of
mysteries surrounding the case.

339
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One of the most high-profile ones was

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the story of the pizza box.

341
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- Okay.

342
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I have here a pizza,

343
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which is similar in all respects
to the one we believe she purchased.

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Which is a Tesco's Finest tomato,
mozzarella, and basil pesto pizza.

345
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[tense music]

346
00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,240
- As part of the investigation,
we had footage of Jo.

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One of the pieces of
footage we had of her was

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that on her way home
from the pub in Bristol,

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she'd bought a pizza.

350
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- The receipt for that
pizza was in her flat,

351
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but the box, the pizza
itself, and the packaging

352
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was nowhere to be seen.

353
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[dumpster rattling]

354
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,040
- When you've got
very little to go on,

355
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you look at every
possible line of inquiry.

356
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So, if someone saw a pizza box

357
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sticking out of a bin
outside a flat somewhere,

358
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is that the house where Jo ended up?

359
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[tense music continues]
[dumpster rattles]

360
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That would be worth following up.

361
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[birds chirping]

362
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,760
- I can't remember any police force

363
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ever asking about a missing pizza.

364
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,440
- The pizza became the
subject of more media interest

365
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than we actually had anticipated.

366
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[jaunty music]

367
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- Britain is full of
armchair detectives,

368
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and if you throw in a
bizarre clue like a pizza,

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it adds interest.

370
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- [Interviewer] If you could
just hold that up again,

371
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I'll just get a close-up.

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- [Gareth] I'm trying to
hold it as steady as I can.

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- [Interviewer] That's all right.

374
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- The press became
absolutely obsessed with it.

375
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Did she eat it?

376
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And if not,
well, what happened to it?

377
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[solemn music]

378
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:30,360
- It's now a story that is
getting national importance.

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[solemn music continues]

380
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- Christmas is a time

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where people gravitate
towards their loved ones.

382
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[solemn music continues]
[crowd chattering]

383
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- Here is a family that
had their Christmas plans

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and then suddenly
their beloved daughter

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was nowhere to be seen.

386
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[solemn music continues]

387
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,160
- There was this great contrast

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between everybody around that area

389
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walking around with
smiles on their faces,

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looking forward to Christmas,

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people coming back
in the fading light

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at the end of the day,

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laden down with bags full
of Christmas shopping,

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looking forward to parties,

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and amidst all the happiness,

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there was this looming tragedy.

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[somber music]

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- Christmas Day, 2010.

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I'm sat at home with my
family and my young son.

400
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We had just opened his
first Christmas present

401
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and my mobile went.

402
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[phone ringing]

403
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:02,880
It was the control room inspector

404
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:07,280
asking me to put my shoes on
and drive to Longwood Lane

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because a body has been found,

406
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,440
and the initial feeling
is that it's Jo Yeates.

407
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,080
[morose music]

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00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,640
I drove up to Longwood Lane

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and certainly didn't
want to be driving there.

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00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,640
I felt incredibly sad.

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I felt incredibly sad.

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[traffic distantly rumbling]

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00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,960
- The people walking
the dogs saw a mound.

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00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,600
It snowed heavily in
the preceding days,

415
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but the husband spotted

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what he thinks was a pair of
jeans sticking out of the snow,

417
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,120
and he then discovered that
it was, in fact, a body.

418
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,600
- Jo was in a very shallow
ditch up against the wall,

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partially covered in leaves,

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as if someone had maybe
made a very rough attempt

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00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,360
to disguise the body in some way.

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00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,080
- She was preserved by the cold.

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00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,800
We knew it was Jo.

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She wasn't wearing any footwear.

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00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,160
She only had a T-shirt and jeans on.

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00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,400
She wasn't dressed for the weather,

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00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,640
and the indications were that

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the killer had probably
taken her there

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and dumped her using a vehicle.

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00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,840
The wall was examined and
there was evidence that

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Jo had come into contact
with that wall quite high up.

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The working theory was that

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the killer had tried to
put her over that wall.

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00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,560
On the other side of
that wall is a quarry.

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00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,640
Had that been the case, her
body may never have been found

436
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,480
or certainly wouldn't have
been found very quickly.

437
00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:03,880
- Of all the days

438
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,800
to have to tell a family that
their loved one is deceased,

439
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,320
you know, not Christmas day, please.

440
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,360
What could possibly
be worse as a parent?

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[car rumbles]

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00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,840
[tender music]

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- [Reporter] On a bleak
December afternoon,

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it was an awful journey for
the family of Joanna Yeates.

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In front of cameras invited
to record the moment,

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they went to the place
where her body was found,

447
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,040
[tender music continues]

448
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,800
- I've never experienced
media interest like it.

449
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,800
It was on every channel.

450
00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:58,920
- The family of Joanna Yeates.

451
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,000
- Of Joanna Yeates.

452
00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:01,120
- Joanna Yeates.

453
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,120
[newspaper printer whirring]

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00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,640
- This was the biggest story
in the country at the time.

455
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,320
[somber music]

456
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,040
[phone rings]

457
00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:21,720
- My phone was just red hot.

458
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,960
There was this insatiable
demand for information.

459
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,920
The biggest question was,
"Is this a murder inquiry?"

460
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,960
And we just had to keep saying,

461
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,560
"We've got to wait now for the
outcome of the post-mortem."

462
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,720
"Well, when's that gonna be?"

463
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,800
- Jo's a scene, so she needed
to be dealt with forensically,

464
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,360
but she was frozen,
so there's certain things

465
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,400
that needed to be done
in a systematic way

466
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,920
before we could take
swabs of her body

467
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,680
to see what people have
come into contact with her.

468
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,240
The post-mortem took three days.

469
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,280
- When Jo's body was
discovered on Christmas Day,

470
00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:06,480
it obviously led the
TV news that day,

471
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,520
but for printed
publications, actually,

472
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,480
most of them don't come out
at all on Christmas Day,

473
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,600
and a lot of them don't come out
on the 26th of December either,

474
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:20,320
which meant that they were
48 hours behind the TV news.

475
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,920
They had a lot of catching up to do,

476
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,240
and they needed to do it quick.

477
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:24,880
[newspaper printer whirring]

478
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,360
- Newspapers really wanted
the information then.

479
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:29,960
They wanted everything then,

480
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,120
and the police were then
suddenly under pressure.

481
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,520
- We cannot say anything until
the pathologist comes forward

482
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:38,640
and gives us a cause of death.

483
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,120
- There would've been even
more pressure on journalists

484
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,400
to come up with the next
story, a follow-up story.

485
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,320
What would it be? Who
would it be about?

486
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,280
Were the police saying
anything more about the body?

487
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:52,880
How did she die?

488
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,360
- The police are
keeping an open mind.

489
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,160
- How was she killed? By what method?

490
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,200
It's up to the police to give
tidbits to the journalists

491
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,000
so they can write their stories,

492
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,440
because if they don't do that,

493
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,800
then it leads to all
sorts of speculation.

494
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,320
- Between Christmas
and New Year, 2010,

495
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,800
Bristol became wild,
wild west country

496
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,680
in terms of media speculation.

497
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,280
[eerie music]

498
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,280
[solemn music]

499
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,280
- On the morning of
the 28th of December,

500
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,800
I had a phone call from
the family liaison officer

501
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,360
saying Jo's family
were extremely upset

502
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,000
by what's been printed in
the national newspapers.

503
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,720
I got hold of the
papers and I felt sick.

504
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,880
[morose music]

505
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,840
The papers had written
that they believe

506
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,320
that Jo Yeates had been
held captive for eight days,

507
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,560
had been dumped unconscious
in Longwood Lane,

508
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,080
and had died of hypothermia.

509
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,160
I mean, I can only imagine

510
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,040
the distress caused to the family.

511
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,600
So I phoned one of the journalists

512
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,760
and said, "What on
earth have you written?"

513
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,480
And his words have stayed
with me ever since.

514
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,080
He said, "It was just something

515
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,960
that was being bandied about,
so we thought we'd use it.

516
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,320
You weren't giving us anything."

517
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,800
[sombre music]

518
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,000
I was speechless.

519
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,360
I'm almost speechless recalling it.

520
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,960
So I said, "We are about

521
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:00,640
to issue the post-mortem results now,

522
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,720
and you are gonna have an
awful lot of egg on your face."

523
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:04,720
- The post-mortem showed that

524
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,000
she certainly didn't
die from hypothermia.

525
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,320
It was from compression of
the neck or strangulation.

526
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,360
- We'd now jumped a huge jump

527
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,560
from a missing person
to a murder inquiry.

528
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,720
[tense string music]

529
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,840
- On the ground in Bristol at
the time, it was pretty crazy.

530
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,720
TV trucks parked outside
Joanna's flat in Canynge Road.

531
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:40,960
You had two or three reporters

532
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,400
for every national
newspaper in the city.

533
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:44,680
There was a real frenzy

534
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,200
in terms of trying to contact
anyone who knew Joanna.

535
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,920
- There were photographers
and reporters hanging around,

536
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,520
sitting in their cars, keeping warm,

537
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,640
waiting to talk to neighbors

538
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,040
or to relatives if they turned up.

539
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,360
Above all, we hoped
that Greg Reardon,

540
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,520
Joanna's boyfriend, would turn up,

541
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,600
but anybody living
within that mansion house

542
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,160
that was divided up into
various flats, any neighbors,

543
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,440
we just wanted to find
out more about Joanna,

544
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,000
talk to people who knew her.

545
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,160
- Joanna's home was in Clifton.

546
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,000
[solemn music]

547
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,160
Most people look to Clifton as

548
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,600
one of the most affluent
areas in Bristol.

549
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,160
If this had happened in

550
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,680
one of the council
estates in South Bristol,

551
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,320
they're like the rougher areas,

552
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,240
everyone would've known Joanna,

553
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,280
but you come to Clifton and
you start door knocking,

554
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,840
a lot of people don't even
know who lives next door.

555
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,080
- Chris Jefferies,
he was the landlord.

556
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,520
He would've known Joanna Yeates.

557
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:55,640
He'd been taking her rent,

558
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,080
so that would be a good
starting point, really.

559
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,280
- We became aware that
Christopher Jefferies

560
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,520
had spoken to the
police a second time.

561
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,640
[tense music]

562
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,880
He became an important figure
for us to try and talk to.

563
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,320
[foreboding music]

564
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,680
- My second statement,
it was something that,

565
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,480
when I was interviewed by the police

566
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,240
following Jo's disappearance,

567
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:30,320
I'd entirely forgotten about
and subsequently remembered.

568
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,840
The night that Jo disappeared,

569
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:38,320
as I was walking up the driveway
to go into the building,

570
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,280
I was vaguely aware of somebody

571
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,520
or some people leaving the premises

572
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,120
by the path at the
side of the building,

573
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,560
which led to the front
door of Jo's flat.

574
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,120
- We wanted to ask him, you
know, what he'd told the police,

575
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,080
- I was leaving the building
to go and do some shopping.

576
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,960
That was how everything began.

577
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,840
- [Reporter] You had made
some comment, which was then-

578
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,440
- He came out and he opened
the gate and he walked out

579
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,320
and my colleague asked him
what he'd told the police.

580
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:17,600
- That I saw that.

581
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,840
I made some comment,

582
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:25,040
which was very, very, very
much vaguer than that.

583
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,640
- He seemed rather irritated,
but he was prepared to speak

584
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,160
and we hadn't heard
him talk at that point.

585
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,320
- [Reporter] Are you able to give us

586
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,760
any detail of what
it was you told them?

587
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,000
- I'm afraid not, no.

588
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,920
Anything that I have said,
I have said to the police,

589
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,160
and I'm not prepared to make
any comments to the media.

590
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,360
- [Reporter] So you didn't see-

591
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,560
- I was absolutely not prepared

592
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,960
to give anybody any statement.

593
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,560
- And I thought he's just gonna
walk off 'cause he's annoyed

594
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,880
but then, as my colleague
asked him again a question,

595
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,040
"Did you definitely see her?"

596
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,120
He kind of turned back

597
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,720
and walked back a couple
of paces to the camera.

598
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,320
He did have a slightly
strange look on his face.

599
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,880
He wasn't smiling, but there
was a kind of sense that

600
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,680
he didn't mind too much the
attention of the camera.

601
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,880
- [Reporter] You didn't
see her that evening?

602
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,960
- I certainly cannot say that

603
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,000
I saw Joanna Yeates that evening, no.

604
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:21,800
- [Reporter] Thank you very much.

605
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,360
- He turns again and
goes towards his car,

606
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,240
at which point a
couple of photographers

607
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,920
just come up to him, and as
he's trying to get into the car,

608
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,880
snapping pictures of him.

609
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,880
[foreboding music]

610
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,160
- The journalists have found out
that this statement has changed,

611
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:47,360
and you do have to ask,
how did they know that?

612
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,280
- As a journalist, you
always protect your sources.

613
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,360
- It must have been, at least
to a degree, police-related.

614
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,040
Obviously, I can't prove it.

615
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,800
- That was something that

616
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,680
Avon and Somerset Police
vehemently denied.

617
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,280
[solemn music]

618
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,560
- I don't know this, but I think

619
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,320
that if this information was
leaked, it was done so that

620
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,040
we focus more on him than
we would've done otherwise

621
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,240
because the police were
becoming suspicious about him.

622
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,840
[ominous music]

623
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,440
- I was just on the
point of getting up

624
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,680
when I became aware that

625
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:40,000
somebody was knocking
on the door of my flat.

626
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:41,680
[knocking on door]

627
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,600
I went to the door, asked who it was.

628
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,960
"It's the police, Mr. Jefferies."

629
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,440
Much to my astonishment,

630
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,240
I was arrested on
suspicion of Jo's murder.

631
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:56,720
[ominous music]

632
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,640
[solemn music]

633
00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:05,440
- When an arrest is made,
there are certain things

634
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,120
that we as a police
force are able to say,

635
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,320
and there are certain things
that we are not able to say,

636
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,920
and one of the things that
we never say upon arrest only

637
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,560
is you do not name an
individual who's been arrested.

638
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,880
You name an individual
once they've been charged,

639
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,360
because we're in a country where

640
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,640
we assume that you're
innocent until proven guilty.

641
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:25,960
We issued a statement

642
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,040
saying that a 65-year-old
man had been arrested.

643
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,720
- We knew Christopher
Jefferies was 65.

644
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,800
You didn't have to be Sherlock
Holmes to work out that

645
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,440
the man arrested was
Christopher Jefferies.

646
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,360
- What the media started doing
is phone police station's up,

647
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:46,640
and would say, "Just checking.

648
00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:48,880
You know, is it in your custody suite

649
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,360
that you've got Chris
Jefferies at the moment,

650
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,520
or is it New Bridewell station
or is it Trinity Road?"

651
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,680
A member of staff

652
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,080
in the front office of
one of the police stations

653
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,520
got kind of tricked
into admitting that

654
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,400
Chris Jefferies was in
custody at that station

655
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,880
at that given time and
was devastated by it.

656
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,760
[foreboding music]

657
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,240
[traffic rumbling]

658
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,400
- When he was arrested,
the most important thing

659
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,360
was to assist Christopher
at the police station.

660
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,000
[solemn music]

661
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,960
When you're advising a
suspect at a police station,

662
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,440
you obviously have the choice of

663
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,160
whether your client answers
questions or doesn't.

664
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,040
If a client has already
given an account,

665
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,520
unless there is something in addition

666
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,560
that he needs to speak about,
there is no reason why

667
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,320
the client should be
answering questions,

668
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,160
and Christopher had given
two full accounts in two statements,

669
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,680
but Christopher was very
keen to assist the police

670
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,120
with any further
questions that they had

671
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:58,880
because that's how Christopher is.

672
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,480
[solemn music continues]

673
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,120
- He said he was at home.

674
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,800
He lived alone, so he
couldn't get that validated.

675
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,520
He didn't have a TV, so you
can't even get any timings

676
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,080
of what he may have been doing,
watching a certain program.

677
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,960
There was no sign of a forced entry

678
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:19,720
and he had a set of keys to the flat.

679
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,040
- When Christopher was arrested,]
he was very naive.

680
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,400
He expected to attend the police
station, give his account,

681
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,680
and almost immediately be released,

682
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,520
and of course that wasn't the case.

683
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:38,600
[traffic distantly rumbling]
[officers faintly murmuring]

684
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,600
- Following Chris Jefferies' arrest,

685
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:46,360
there's a whole new forensic
procedure that is adopted

686
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,600
and his flat is subject
to intense scrutiny.

687
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,800
There were some trainers found
belonging to Jefferies in the flat

688
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,480
that looked like they
had blood on them.

689
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,320
Everybody assumed that this was it.

690
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,000
This was the missing
piece of the jigsaw.

691
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,520
This was gonna be Jo's blood.

692
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:07,440
[traffic rumbling]

693
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:08,960
[phone ringing]

694
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,880
[ominous music]

695
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,640
- During the police interviews,

696
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:23,200
they did mention this phone call.

697
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,080
- It was made by Vincent Tabak

698
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,240
when he'd gone back to the
Netherlands at Christmas.

699
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,840
- Vincent Tabak was a tenant
who had been living in

700
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,280
the other garden flat
next door to Jo's.

701
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,840
[ominous music continues]

702
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:44,640
- He suggested that

703
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,280
Christopher Jefferies' car
was facing a different way

704
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,720
the morning after Jo had disappeared.

705
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,440
- And that was at odds with
Chris Jefferies' account.

706
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:56,120
- I pointed out to them

707
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,840
that there was a
very good explanation

708
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:04,600
for the fact that my car had moved

709
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,960
because it was rather snowy.

710
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:14,080
I was going to an event
that particular evening.

711
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,840
I wanted to reverse up the driveway,

712
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:23,920
and because it was snowy and icy,
the wheels were spinning.

713
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:29,440
So I knocked on the door
of Vincent Tabak's flat

714
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:34,760
to say, would he mind
giving the car a push

715
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,480
so that I could get up the slope?

716
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,560
Of course, he said,
"What are neighbors for?"

717
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,640
- There would've been a lot of
emphasis put on that phone call.

718
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,080
They took it seriously.

719
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,720
[foreboding music]

720
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:10,280
- While I was in custody,
slightly naively,

721
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,720
it didn't actually occur to me that

722
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,040
anybody might be remotely interested

723
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:19,000
in the fact that I was in custody

724
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,480
- That morning, I had a
number of telephone calls.

725
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,320
People were calling me to
go and buy the newspapers.

726
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,120
[newspaper printer whirring]

727
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,600
I went to the shop,

728
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,680
purchased a pile of newspapers,
and flicked through them.

729
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:36,560
Wow.

730
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,160
[foreboding music continues]

731
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,600
- So, on the 31st of December,

732
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:48,160
the press absolutely
annihilated Chris Jefferies.

733
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,440
- I can't remember a
suspect in a big case

734
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:59,080
being quite subjected to
that almost vilification.

735
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,040
- It was just appalling.

736
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,000
I've never had a client
who has had such coverage.

737
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,240
- It was a feeding frenzy.

738
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,600
- Chris Jefferies was tried
and convicted by the media

739
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,240
long before we'd ever sat down
and finished questioning him.

740
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:21,160
[foreboding music flourishes]

741
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,520
[newspaper printer whirring]
[somber music]

742
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,560
- The newspapers just
tore his life apart,

743
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:35,160
turning up pupils who'd known him
when he was a teacher years before,

744
00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:37,560
and they were saying
dreadful things about him.

745
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,280
- I think what people
vividly remember is

746
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,000
the image of him with blue hair.

747
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,680
- My hair never looked like that.

748
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,440
I used,

749
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,000
at the time, a shampoo

750
00:42:55,080 --> 00:43:00,920
to give the hair a
very slight blue tint,

751
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,480
but it certainly was not anything

752
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,080
remotely resembling the photograph.

753
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,320
- But that, of course,
wasn't the only thing,

754
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,360
[newspaper printer whirring]
[tense music]

755
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,360
- The worst thing I remember

756
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,320
were quotes from anonymous females

757
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:27,200
who were his pupils
many years before,

758
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:31,600
saying how uncomfortable
they felt around him,

759
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,880
how creeped out they felt,

760
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,240
and there was also somebody

761
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,560
who'd been a tenant
in one of the flats

762
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,360
who accused him of
being a peeping tom.

763
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,000
The implication was
that she was a female,

764
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:53,800
and, you know, he had some
unhealthy sexual interest in her,

765
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,600
and, again, in the context
of him being identified as

766
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,880
the suspect for Joanna's murder,

767
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:01,280
it couldn't really be more damning.

768
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:04,360
The police were saying

769
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,120
there was no evidence that
she'd been sexually assaulted,

770
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,280
but a pretty young woman murdered,

771
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,000
there's a kind of unspoken
sexual element to it

772
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,480
in most people's minds.

773
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:20,280
That all added to this idea
that he was a sexual deviant.

774
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:22,240
That's why he's been arrested.

775
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,160
[eerie music]

776
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,600
- The police were scratching
around for a motive,

777
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,600
so my concern was that,
what effect does this have

778
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,080
on the police and the investigation?

779
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,080
[foreboding music]

780
00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:43,760
- Bizarre links were being made

781
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,760
between him and a
convicted paedophile.

782
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:52,680
- There was no shred
of truth whatsoever

783
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,720
in the allegations
that were being made.

784
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:58,680
- The only link that they had

785
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,000
was that they had both
owned the same flats,

786
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,440
but it was years in between.

787
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,120
It had changed hands two
or three times since.

788
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,320
There was no link to be made there.

789
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,400
They used quotes such as,
"He was really creepy.

790
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,120
Everyone thought he was gay."

791
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:19,200
It implies that being gay
makes you a paedophile,

792
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,720
and it does smack of
massive homophobia.

793
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,960
- The media were looking at

794
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:30,080
potential links with other
unsolved murders of females,

795
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,000
particularly those around the
same age as Joanna Yeates.

796
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:39,040
Claudia Lawrence, who'd vanished
in York the year before.

797
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:43,000
There was Melanie Hall from
the late '90s who'd vanished.

798
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,000
Perhaps the most intriguing

799
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:47,800
was the case of Glenis Carruthers,

800
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,200
who had vanished a few hundred yards

801
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,040
from where Joanna
Yeates had disappeared.

802
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:57,280
[foreboding music continues]

803
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,040
- If you look at the layout
of the newspaper pages,

804
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:04,920
Jo's completely absent.

805
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,760
The pictures of Chris
Jefferies are huge

806
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,520
and the pictures used of Jo

807
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:13,600
are either thumbnail tiny,
or in some cases, not at all.

808
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,000
[newspaper printer whirring]

809
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,520
This was no longer about Jo.

810
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,640
This was about this man,

811
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:23,520
and it was almost like
her death was incidental.

812
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,760
[ominous music]

813
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,520
- My phone again rang and
said the Attorney General

814
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:35,440
is commenting on
Christopher's case on Radio 4.

815
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,840
[somber music]

816
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:38,880
- Dominic Grieve,

817
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:40,640
who was the attorney
general at that point,

818
00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:45,280
he went on the World
at One on BBC Radio 4

819
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,880
to slap the wrist of the
media, to tell them off,

820
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,400
to basically say,
"You're going too far."

821
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,720
- The Attorney General is

822
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:56,920
the sort of chief legal advisor

823
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,040
to the crown and the government.

824
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,040
- It takes pretty bad press coverage

825
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,080
for the attorney general to step in.

826
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,880
It is highly unusual
and it just goes to show

827
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,880
that they had not
only crossed a line.

828
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,640
They had done some
sort of hurdle over it.

829
00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:17,200
[newspaper printer whirring]

830
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:18,840
- Of course, it was welcomed,

831
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,160
but a lot of the damage had been done

832
00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:25,000
by the time the attorney
general had made those comments.

833
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,640
The coverage was extensive.

834
00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:31,240
- The content of some of the articles

835
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,440
was driving you towards thinking that

836
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,040
Christopher Jefferies
might be guilty,

837
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:42,040
and that is potentially
very problematic.

838
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,960
If there's lots of
information in those articles

839
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,200
that don't actually make
it into the courtroom,

840
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,680
then you may potentially have jurors

841
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,200
who remember things that they read

842
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:58,200
and they may be reaching
conclusions not based

843
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,640
from the evidence that they're
hearing in the courtroom.

844
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,400
How on earth can he have a fair trial

845
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:08,200
when there's been all this
negative publicity about him?

846
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,040
[traffic distantly rumbling]

847
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,360
- There were huge
pressures to come up with

848
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,720
big agenda-setting scoops.

849
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,120
Massive, massive pressure.

850
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,560
[foreboding music]

851
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,560
- In 2010, the British
press was just coming out of

852
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,120
what has been described
as their worst year ever.

853
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,720
Circulation was
dropping dramatically,

854
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,120
and some publications,
such as The Mirror,

855
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,520
had actually seen a 55%
decrease in circulation

856
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,000
over that past decade.

857
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,160
[newspaper printer whirring]

858
00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:53,240
The advertising revenue was
taking a massive plummet,

859
00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:54,280
and at this point,

860
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,280
paginations were having
to decrease because of it

861
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,040
and it was looking pretty bleak.

862
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:03,040
- The staff were under
pressure to get the story

863
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,200
because they know the
circulation is falling.

864
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:08,680
- Bad news sells.

865
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,200
Murder is one of the strongest,

866
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,200
highest news values that there is.

867
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:18,240
- The proprietor would ring
the editor on a Saturday night.

868
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,920
Wherever Rupert Murdoch
was in the world,

869
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,040
he would call in,
speak to the editor,

870
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:25,160
and if he wasn't happy,

871
00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:27,280
there would just be
silence on the phone.

872
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,240
There was huge pressure
to get the story.

873
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,000
Don't worry how you get it.

874
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,080
[plane roaring]

875
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,600
[ominous music]

876
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,400
- Following Vincent Tabak's
phone call from the Netherlands

877
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,480
on the 30th of December,

878
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,960
DC Thomas was sent
out to interview him.

879
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:02,760
She got a really bad
feeling about Tabak.

880
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:06,360
[ominous music continues]

881
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,120
Forensic strategy for a murder,

882
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,760
you take samples and
elimination swabs

883
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,240
from anybody that could
assist the inquiry.

884
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,440
She requested that he provide

885
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,440
a voluntary sample
of DNA, a mouth swab.

886
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,720
He seemed a little bit
weary of that process.

887
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:30,840
When DC Thomas returned
with the evidence

888
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,480
that she got from Tabak,
I spoke to her

889
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:38,760
and I knew that she had had
a bad feeling about Tabak,

890
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,640
and when I read the
statement, I did as well.

891
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,160
He made comments about his movement

892
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:48,600
the night that Jo was last
seen that would have put him

893
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:52,760
in proximity of the front
door of Joanna's flat.

894
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,640
[eerie music]

895
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:57,440
Something wasn't quite right,

896
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,480
but when DC Thomas
presented the evidence

897
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:03,800
to certain senior officers,

898
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,160
it's fair to say that
they didn't embrace it.

899
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,640
All attention was still
going on Jefferies.

900
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,320
[eerie music continues]

901
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,560
The press, the media, it was poison,

902
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:25,520
and it was certainly a
distraction for the police,

903
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,080
and I think no doubt influenced

904
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,360
mindsets of detectives
on that inquiry.

905
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:34,240
[eerie music continues]

906
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,480
Confirmation bias means that

907
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,440
you pin everything on one
individual being responsible

908
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:45,960
and you only seek information
to confirm your suspicions

909
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:51,840
and you'll ignore or edit
or miss out information

910
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,800
that suggests they're
perhaps not guilty.

911
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:56,560
I believe confirmation bias

912
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,280
was prevalent in this investigation,

913
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,120
and it's a very dangerous mindset
for an investigator to have.

914
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,200
- At 4:00 PM on the 31st,

915
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:10,440
there was an extension granted
by the magistrate's court

916
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,520
in order to further question
and detain Christopher.

917
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:18,200
- Hearing that they'd got an
extension to keep holding him

918
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,440
did suggest that they had
some credible evidence.

919
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,560
We'd felt that the
police had got their man.

920
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,920
- [Crowd] Four, three, two, one!

921
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:33,000
[crowd cheering]
[fireworks banging]

922
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,480
[solemn music]

923
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,080
- The media were camped
outside Jo's flat,

924
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,440
sat in vehicles in the cold,

925
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:50,800
waiting for an opportunity
to take photos of

926
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,680
detectives coming or
police doing searches.

927
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:55,800
They were everywhere.

928
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,320
- Everyone wanted an angle.

929
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:00,640
The Sun, The Mirror, The Express,

930
00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:02,320
The Mail, The News of the World.

931
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,640
The pressure was on to get a
splash as good as the last,

932
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,640
because you can't rest on
your laurels in newspapers.

933
00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:14,080
You need to keep
feeding your readership

934
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,520
and the readership
needed to be entertained.

935
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:22,280
No one's forcing you to
pick up a tabloid paper

936
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:23,400
if you don't want to.

937
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:27,240
[foreboding music]

938
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,040
- As a local crime
correspondent, it's not fun.

939
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,560
You have scores of journalists

940
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,440
competing over the same story.

941
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,160
- The tabloids were
offering money to people

942
00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:48,600
who lived inside the
cordon up in Clifton

943
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,240
near where Jo lived,

944
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,360
just so they could
sit in their lounges

945
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,200
and watch and look for
any police activity.

946
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:59,360
One of Jo's friends was
offered 20,000 pounds

947
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,120
to speak to a tabloid paper.

948
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,280
- You have people
throwing money around,

949
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,720
paying for interviews,
paying for information,

950
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:08,800
which I didn't have.

951
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:12,840
Then I have my editor saying,
"Why haven't you got this story?"

952
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,520
And I'm thinking,
"Because it's rubbish."

953
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,320
[newspaper printer whirring]

954
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:22,440
- Many of the comments in the
papers were unsubstantiated.

955
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,040
They were unnamed sources.

956
00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:27,520
- The Sun ran a story

957
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,600
with a woman who didn't
want to be named,

958
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,320
saying that Chris
Jefferies had stalked her.

959
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:37,560
The story was that he had chatted
to her at a local library,

960
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:39,720
and that whenever she
came into the library,

961
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,200
he would smile at her.

962
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:43,640
He said nice things
about her hair colour,

963
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:46,160
that he had chatted to
her in the supermarket

964
00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:48,640
about the contents of
her supermarket trolley,

965
00:54:48,720 --> 00:54:50,720
and that when she eventually said

966
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,640
that he was making her
feel uncomfortable,

967
00:54:52,720 --> 00:54:54,080
he'd said something like,

968
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,480
"What do you take me for,
some kind of pervert?"

969
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,640
[ominous music]

970
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:05,600
I think using the word "stalking"
was perhaps unreasonable.

971
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,680
I wonder why the woman
didn't want to be named.

972
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,240
- An unnamed source could be

973
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,440
me talking to a senior police officer

974
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:18,400
and the police officer saying,
"We've got our man there.

975
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:19,520
We've got our man."

976
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,040
An unnamed source could be

977
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:25,520
somebody who knows the
person who's been arrested

978
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:26,960
and says, "I'll talk to you,

979
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:28,720
but I'll talk to you off the record."

980
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,120
In other words, you
can't name him or her.

981
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,960
- The journalist must
always know their identity.

982
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:40,040
However, you as a journalist
never have to reveal your sources,

983
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,840
so you will never ever
have to give that name,

984
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:46,440
those details to anybody,
even in a courtroom.

985
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:48,880
So, [chuckles]

986
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:51,880
what stops you from making it up?

987
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:53,920
Very little.

988
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:59,000
[traffic distantly rumbling]

989
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,560
- The newspapers didn't really care

990
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,920
whether what they were saying
about Christopher was true,

991
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,680
because, ultimately,
I think they were gambling on

992
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,480
him being charged and
convicted of murder.

993
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:11,960
[ominous music]

994
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,080
- It was probably a calculated risk.

995
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:16,760
They had a look at the
bottom line and thought,

996
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:17,880
"Well, we might get sued,

997
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:19,800
but look at how much
we're gonna be making."

998
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,040
The editor of The Mirror,
Richard Wallace,

999
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,080
said they'd been told by the police

1000
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:27,720
that Chris Jefferies was their man

1001
00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:29,640
in an off-the-record briefing.

1002
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,120
- Had Christopher Jefferies

1003
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:37,240
actually been convicted of
the murder of Joanna Yeates,

1004
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:38,840
from a libel perspective,

1005
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,280
it would be very hard to
start mounting a claim.

1006
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,160
- There is no such thing
as defaming a murderer.

1007
00:56:46,240 --> 00:56:48,800
You can't lower that
person's reputation

1008
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,680
because they don't have a
good reputation to start with.

1009
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,880
The newspapers were so convinced

1010
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:57,840
that he was about to be charged,

1011
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,160
it was almost like
it was open season.

1012
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,760
[solemn music]

1013
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,360
- Whilst Christopher
was in police custody,

1014
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,720
on occasions, he did
find it difficult.

1015
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,160
He was a person of good character,

1016
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,160
never been in trouble before.

1017
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:21,880
He would've been in a
completely new environment,

1018
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:26,360
somewhat intimidating, being
in a cell, being handcuffed.

1019
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:33,680
- At the back of one's mind,
one starts to feel,

1020
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:38,120
well, possibly there is
something that I have done

1021
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:39,600
that I've forgotten about

1022
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:44,160
and they have discovered
some incriminating evidence.

1023
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,240
[solemn music continues]

1024
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:51,920
- The police were clearly affected by
what was being written in the papers.

1025
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:56,000
[solemn music continues]

1026
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,960
There were newspaper articles
which portray Christopher

1027
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:00,480
as having a bad temper.

1028
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:03,440
Thereafter, in the interview,

1029
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,200
the police are asking Christopher

1030
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,360
as to whether he has
a bad temper or not.

1031
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:13,280
- I was obviously very
forthcoming in giving them

1032
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:18,080
all sorts of details and
answers to their questions

1033
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:21,920
since I knew I had nothing to hide.

1034
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:24,480
- Christopher said

1035
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:27,000
he did have a bad temper
on certain occasions.

1036
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,560
Christopher said he had a bad temper

1037
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,320
for effect when teaching.

1038
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,000
- He could be quite
critical of bad grammar,

1039
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,240
and I'm certainly aware
that he pointed out

1040
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:43,160
a few inaccuracies in
the interview process,

1041
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:45,760
which can probably only make people

1042
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:47,360
feel more prickly towards him.

1043
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,160
- They were obviously
getting very frustrated

1044
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,280
that they weren't getting anywhere.

1045
00:58:55,360 --> 00:59:00,760
They tried to put a bit
more pressure on me.

1046
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,240
- The evidence against
him was extremely flimsy.

1047
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,440
- The trainers found
belonging to Jefferies

1048
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,080
in the flat with blood on them,

1049
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:12,960
it turned out to be beef blood.

1050
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:15,960
- Good evening.
Within the last hour,

1051
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:18,520
it's been confirmed that the
landlord of Joanna Yeates

1052
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,080
is no longer in police custody.

1053
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:24,400
[gentle music]

1054
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,120
- Christopher was
released on police bail,

1055
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:28,880
which means he is still a suspect.

1056
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:37,240
- After the three days I'd
spent in the police station,

1057
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:42,560
I certainly was very angry
because I remember that

1058
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:46,720
the first thing that I
said to the solicitor was,

1059
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,840
"Somebody has got to
be sued for this."

1060
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:53,920
- We were very concerned for him.

1061
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,920
The press were portraying
him in a very, very bad way.

1062
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,600
Had somebody wanted to be
aggressive towards him,

1063
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:08,280
threaten him, his address was
public, his house distinctive.

1064
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:11,280
Of course, his photographs
were in all the papers.

1065
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:13,080
It's just extremely dangerous.

1066
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,200
Christopher couldn't go
back to his own house,

1067
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,360
so essentially he went
back to a friend's house.

1068
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:23,200
Christopher had no clothing

1069
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:25,680
because they took all the
clothing for forensics,

1070
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,520
so he felt that it
would be a good idea

1071
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:30,160
to go to the local shopping center.

1072
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,440
The last thing we wanted was

1073
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,400
for somebody to either
attack him, abuse him,

1074
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:40,480
and put him in a worse
position mentally or physically

1075
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:41,680
than what he was.

1076
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,920
We made sure that he lay low.

1077
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,200
One of the points that I raised was

1078
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:52,640
perhaps Christopher
changing his appearance.

1079
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:57,440
- And it was arranged

1080
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:00,840
that I would go

1081
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:05,920
late one afternoon
to the hairdresser.

1082
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:12,480
Time for a change.
Time for a new look.

1083
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:16,480
- Christopher's life was disrupted.

1084
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:22,360
He has to live with
what was said about him

1085
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:25,360
and the way he was
portrayed in the media

1086
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:26,720
for the rest of his life,

1087
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:31,640
and I'm sure, even now, if
he's walking down the street,

1088
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:32,920
someone will say,

1089
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,440
"There's the guy that was
nicked for Joanna Yeates."

1090
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,960
[solemn music continues]

1091
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:43,000
[foreboding music]

1092
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:52,400
- When Christopher
Jefferies is released,

1093
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:54,040
we are then back to square one.

1094
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:56,800
There's still a killer on the loose.

1095
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:00,880
- There is understandably
always concern.

1096
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,880
In tandem with the
criminal investigation,

1097
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:05,040
the police were doing

1098
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:08,040
higher-profile patrols,
enhanced patrols,

1099
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:11,280
more officers on the streets,
trying to reassure people.

1100
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:13,440
[cameras clicking]

1101
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,000
- A uniformed officer would turn up

1102
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,680
to kind of deliver that
reassuring message,

1103
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:19,360
warning women that, you know,

1104
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:21,520
there's no great danger,
but just be careful,

1105
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:23,360
particularly walking home at night.

1106
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:28,360
- The difficulty was that
there didn't appear to be

1107
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:31,240
any other remotely obvious suspects.

1108
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:33,880
- And the killer hadn't been found.

1109
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:38,040
That led to criticism
of the investigation.

1110
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:42,440
- Scrutiny then came back
on the police on things

1111
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:44,640
that they could have, should
have done differently,

1112
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:48,160
and that the relationship
with the media

1113
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,040
became more fractious at that point,

1114
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:54,000
- The interest was still huge.

1115
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:57,520
I was still down in Bristol.

1116
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,160
I was under pressure
to do daily reports

1117
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,240
to keep the whole Joanna
Yeates story going.

1118
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:07,000
- The media are clamouring
for their next headline,

1119
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:08,320
their next update.

1120
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:09,960
They want more information,

1121
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:13,040
and if you can't provide it to them,

1122
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:14,680
then they will look elsewhere,

1123
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:17,680
and one of the things
you commonly see,

1124
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:20,800
you see it a lot on TV,
they will bring out experts.

1125
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:22,960
- [Reporter] Messages are mixed

1126
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,200
and even the experts are confused.

1127
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:30,080
- ITN took him up to the location

1128
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:34,280
where Jo's body had been
found to seek his expert view.

1129
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:37,640
[solemn music]

1130
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:41,960
This chat raised a number of,
in his professional opinion,

1131
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:45,520
failings there in
the Somerset Police.

1132
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:47,200
He found some litter at the scene.

1133
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:49,240
- I would've expected
to come along here

1134
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:50,840
and seen absolutely nothing,

1135
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:54,480
certainly nothing that
DNA could be taken from.

1136
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,000
- Who is this person,
first and foremost?

1137
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:01,880
What gives him the credentials

1138
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:06,640
and the expertise to to criticise us?

1139
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:11,320
I was at the scene the
day Jo's body was found,

1140
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,320
and I know that they didn't
leave a stone unturned

1141
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:16,040
in terms of looking for evidence.

1142
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:19,080
- The upshot was that

1143
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:20,880
Avon and Somerset
Police were so angry,

1144
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:24,800
they banned ITN from
press conferences.

1145
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,480
- I think it was a
brave decision to make,

1146
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:34,240
and I think sometimes you do
need to do things like that

1147
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,560
because some elements of the media

1148
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:39,760
do have this aura about them
where they feel untouchable

1149
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:43,280
and they think that they
can push the boundaries

1150
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:44,600
and get away with things.

1151
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:48,480
- I thought that was bizarre.

1152
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,960
I thought that was
petulant of the police.

1153
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:54,520
The police were cutting their
nose off to spite their face

1154
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:57,120
because they were getting
rid of the possibility

1155
01:04:57,200 --> 01:04:59,160
that an ITN viewer

1156
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:01,800
might be the very witness
that they're looking for.

1157
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:07,120
- The ban lasted no longer
than 48 hours in the end,

1158
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,000
and one of the reasons
that it was lifted,

1159
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:13,200
more than anything else,
is because of the backlash.

1160
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:16,400
We've got the right to ask questions.

1161
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:18,120
We've got a right for
this and a right for that

1162
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:19,600
and freedom of the press.

1163
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:21,720
That became the story,

1164
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:27,880
and it was detracting from
what we needed the story to be,

1165
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:30,560
which was the hunt
for Jo Yeates' killer.

1166
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,040
[solemn music]

1167
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:35,880
[birds chirping]

1168
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:48,360
- The next day, The Sun
ran a front page story

1169
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:52,920
saying that Joanna Yeates
was missing a ski sock

1170
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:54,240
when her body was found.

1171
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,840
[tense music]

1172
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:02,520
- Perhaps that was the murder weapon.

1173
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:04,400
Maybe that's why a sock was missing,

1174
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:06,000
that he'd strangled her with it,

1175
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:09,680
or it had been taken as
a trophy by the killer.

1176
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:12,960
- The trouble was, a
couple of days before,

1177
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:14,600
the investigation team had said that

1178
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:16,880
she'd been fully clothed
when she was found.

1179
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:20,320
The media felt like they
were withholding information.

1180
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:24,280
- One of Jo's socks was missing,

1181
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,640
but there are certain things
you don't always tell the media

1182
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,680
because if an independent
witness comes forward

1183
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,600
and says something,
there might be a detail

1184
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:35,720
that you haven't put
into the public domain,

1185
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:38,040
that if they come to you with it,

1186
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,160
you kind of think, "We've
got a credible lead here."

1187
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:45,200
Once it became clear that

1188
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:47,720
certainly at least one element
of the media knew about it,

1189
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:50,160
we were gonna have to do
something about this now.

1190
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:54,880
- I'm here this morning to talk
to you about a missing sock.

1191
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:56,320
[cameras clicking]

1192
01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:59,080
- We ended up buying a similar sock,
putting it into a case,

1193
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:00,800
and holding it up at
the press conference.

1194
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:07,680
- The Sun often lead the rest of us
on those kind of stories.

1195
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:10,320
Yeah, they clearly had a good source.

1196
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:12,480
- How did they find out?

1197
01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:16,600
We didn't know where
the media got that from.

1198
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:21,720
I know it caused some concern
to the investigation team.

1199
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:26,680
- The murder investigation
team had a briefing room

1200
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:28,840
that doubled up to brief the media.

1201
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:31,600
There were some suggestions.

1202
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:34,560
I wonder if the media
have bugged that room.

1203
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:36,960
I wonder if they're getting
snippets of information

1204
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:38,040
from bugging it,

1205
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:41,560
but to my knowledge,
none were found.

1206
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,480
- I think, from that point
onwards, the relationship

1207
01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:48,280
between the media and the
police definitely changed.

1208
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:50,600
The investigation team closed ranks.

1209
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:57,720
[somber music]

1210
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:11,640
By mid-January, the
relationship between

1211
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:13,560
Avon and Somerset
Police and the media

1212
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:15,280
was not in the best of places.

1213
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:17,640
It became increasingly hard

1214
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:20,160
to find any new angles to the story.

1215
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:24,920
- The Sun offered 50,000 pounds

1216
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,440
for information that would lead to

1217
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:30,840
the successful capture
of Jo's killer.

1218
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:34,000
It is a little bit unusual
for a newspaper organization

1219
01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:35,560
to put up that amount of money,

1220
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:38,680
especially if you think about
the financial dire straits

1221
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:40,600
that the newspaper industry
were in at the time.

1222
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:41,600
[newspaper printer whirring]

1223
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:45,240
It was a very clever way of
keeping the story in the press.

1224
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,040
- There wasn't much happening

1225
01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:52,000
in terms of the police investigation.

1226
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:53,240
- Whatever work was going on

1227
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:56,040
behind the scenes with forensics

1228
01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:58,920
was kept really tight because
of the media interest.

1229
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:00,880
We didn't want any more speculation,

1230
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:02,000
- So when we discovered

1231
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,400
that they were going
to do a reconstruction,

1232
01:09:04,480 --> 01:09:07,800
that was another story for me to do

1233
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:11,800
to keep the Joanna Yeates
story in our bulletins.

1234
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:15,640
[traffic rumbling]

1235
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:20,320
When they started filming it,

1236
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,960
we were there filming
from a distance,

1237
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:24,440
and I think the police
were a bit annoyed

1238
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:25,880
that we discovered it.

1239
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:32,000
They didn't like the idea of
them losing control over it.

1240
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:34,680
[solemn music]

1241
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:39,680
I remember the actress who
looked remarkably like Joanna,

1242
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,000
wearing the same white skiing jacket

1243
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:46,560
that you can see in those CCTV images

1244
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:48,400
of her last movements on the night.

1245
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:52,720
[solemn music continues]

1246
01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:00,360
We'd all got used to reconstructions
being done a week after,

1247
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:02,440
because if you do it a week after,

1248
01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:06,160
at the same time, you're far
more likely to find people

1249
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:09,240
who remember what they
were doing at that time.

1250
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:13,160
It seemed odd to wait a month
to do that reconstruction,

1251
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:15,200
and there were genuine
questions about, you know,

1252
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:17,440
well, where is this
investigation going?

1253
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:22,040
[solemn music continues]

1254
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:26,120
The irony was that

1255
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:29,720
the reconstruction that
was shot never got shown.

1256
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:30,920
- Police in Bristol say

1257
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:32,480
that they have made a
significant breakthrough

1258
01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:34,640
in their hunt for the
killer of Joanna Yeates

1259
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:36,920
after arresting a 32-year-old man.

1260
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:39,320
- [Reporter] The Avon
and Somerset force

1261
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:41,520
haven't named their latest suspect,

1262
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:44,080
the police reacting
perhaps to criticisms

1263
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:46,800
following some coverage
of their first suspect.

1264
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,360
- Somebody started running
on their ticker tape

1265
01:10:50,440 --> 01:10:51,720
quite early on

1266
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:54,680
that it was Vincent Tabak
that had been arrested,

1267
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:57,360
at which point I had a phone
call from Martin Brunt.

1268
01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:01,800
- I said, "Look, another
media organisation

1269
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:07,360
has named Vincent Tabak as
the man who's been arrested.

1270
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:08,760
Is it him?"

1271
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:11,720
- I would never give you the
name of anybody we've arrested.

1272
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:13,000
I can't help you.

1273
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,920
- If I repeat it,
am I gonna be in trouble?

1274
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,680
Am I gonna cause myself
any legal problems?

1275
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:23,120
If you were me, would you
follow what my rivals have done?

1276
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:25,600
Looking for a nudge and a wink.

1277
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:27,400
- We don't confirm names.

1278
01:11:27,480 --> 01:11:30,120
- We all identified Vincent Tabak

1279
01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:31,760
as the man who'd been arrested.

1280
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:37,800
- A reporter had
interviewed Vincent Tabak

1281
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:38,960
before his arrest,

1282
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:42,080
just as the neighbor, trying
to get a bit of background,

1283
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:44,480
trying to get some
more colorful quotes.

1284
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:46,720
He didn't raise any suspicions.

1285
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:51,680
- There was nothing that
you could describe as

1286
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,240
being remotely eccentric about
his appearance or his manner.

1287
01:11:56,640 --> 01:12:00,120
- Vincent Tabak was mild-mannered.

1288
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:03,480
He had a decent job. He had a fiancée.

1289
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:08,280
There was nothing really
sinister or suspicious about him.

1290
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:10,520
[solemn music]

1291
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:16,200
- I was driving back to
Bristol and got the news

1292
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:20,160
that Vincent Tabak had been arrested,

1293
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:24,800
and my immediate reaction
was I think it's very likely

1294
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:28,360
that the police have
made another blunder.

1295
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:33,160
He was a tenant who was,
in many ways, ideal.

1296
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:38,000
During the 18 months
that I had known him,

1297
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:41,360
he had given me absolutely
no cause whatsoever

1298
01:12:41,440 --> 01:12:45,160
to suggest that he was likely at all

1299
01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:48,480
to be involved in all this.

1300
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:51,920
[traffic rumbling]

1301
01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:54,520
- It had already been agreed

1302
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:56,800
that I was gonna interview
the next suspect.

1303
01:12:57,720 --> 01:12:58,840
My passion as a detective

1304
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:00,920
has always been
interviewing suspects.

1305
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:04,240
I sat next to him on purpose.

1306
01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:06,360
I wanted to feel his leg
shaking against mine.

1307
01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:10,280
He denied all knowledge
of Jo's death,

1308
01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:12,680
and he, in fact, stated
through a prepared statement

1309
01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:14,600
that he'd never come
into contact with her,

1310
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:17,040
knew who she was,
wished he could help us.

1311
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:21,160
I know for a fact that the solicitor

1312
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:24,480
and interpreter that
we ensured was present

1313
01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:27,520
in case there was any suggestion

1314
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:30,400
that he didn't understand
questions put to him,

1315
01:13:31,480 --> 01:13:34,760
they were convinced that we
had an innocent man in custody.

1316
01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:39,720
Having spent three days in
the company of Vincent Tabak,

1317
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:42,760
he was an extremely clever chap.

1318
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:44,320
Analytical in his thinking.

1319
01:13:46,160 --> 01:13:48,760
Clearly not when it came
to internet search history.

1320
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:51,200
Why was he researching

1321
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:54,360
"how long does it take for a
body to decompose in the snow?"

1322
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:59,560
Why was he looking at Longwood
Lane in his search history

1323
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:01,400
prior to Jo even being found?

1324
01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:05,760
Why was he researching
bin collection in Clifton?

1325
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:08,720
[crowd chattering]

1326
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:11,200
Why was he researching CCTV cameras?

1327
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:13,360
Why was he researching

1328
01:14:13,440 --> 01:14:16,280
"can I serve my sentence
in the Netherlands?"

1329
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:22,960
The moment that we started to
disclose evidence of forensics,

1330
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:25,760
the interpreter stated to
me, "I no longer want to be

1331
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:28,400
left in the consultation
room with that man."

1332
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:32,840
They were now seeing the
game that he was playing.

1333
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:39,800
We found from the forensic
examination of his computers

1334
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:45,680
that he was a regular
user of hardcore porn,

1335
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:49,760
and some of that porn
depicted women being strangled

1336
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,440
the same way that Jo was killed.

1337
01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:55,200
[ominous music]

1338
01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:00,960
There was an area on Jo's chest

1339
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,440
that showed that he'd
come into contact with her

1340
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:06,440
under the back of her
jeans behind the knee.

1341
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:08,960
That was quite interesting,
because if you were going to

1342
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:10,400
lift someone out of
the boot of a car,

1343
01:15:10,480 --> 01:15:11,520
where would you hold them?

1344
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:14,240
The final nail in the coffin,

1345
01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:15,440
bearing in mind that he said that

1346
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:17,840
he'd never had any
association with her,

1347
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:20,440
we found microscopic specks of blood

1348
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:23,440
in the boot of his car
that belonged to Jo.

1349
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:27,080
We knew we had him.

1350
01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:29,760
[somber music]

1351
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:38,800
[traffic distantly rumbling]

1352
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:41,640
[birds chirping]

1353
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:45,120
[morose music]

1354
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:50,200
I remember Tabak's trial,

1355
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:54,680
the amount of media
in the public gallery.

1356
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:56,600
It was taken over. You
couldn't get in there.

1357
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:02,560
Journalists camped outside
the court, taking photographs.

1358
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:06,760
I wonder how many
of those journalists

1359
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:08,440
were the ones that blamed Chris.

1360
01:16:09,480 --> 01:16:12,880
[morose music continues]

1361
01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:18,880
During the trial, Tabak's body
language was almost pleading

1362
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:21,760
to people around him
to give him sympathy.

1363
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:24,400
- Before his trial,

1364
01:16:24,480 --> 01:16:28,040
Vincent Tabak was held
on remand in custody.

1365
01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:30,960
He had made this confession
to the prison chaplain

1366
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:34,040
that he confessed to the killing.

1367
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:39,640
- But in court, Tabak then
entered a manslaughter plea.

1368
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:41,280
He was trying to mitigate

1369
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:44,360
his involvement in
her death in some way,

1370
01:16:44,440 --> 01:16:46,000
and I was annoyed with that.

1371
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:47,240
She deserved more.

1372
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:50,280
[foreboding music]

1373
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,160
- His version of events was
that she'd been coming home

1374
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:55,240
after a night out with friends

1375
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:58,720
and that she'd invited him
in to her flat for a drink.

1376
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:01,440
She had made a flirtatious
comment to him.

1377
01:17:02,480 --> 01:17:05,520
- I don't believe that for a moment,
not for a moment.

1378
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,840
- He had gone to kiss her,
but she had screamed.

1379
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:14,720
- So he's put his hand over
her mouth because she screamed.

1380
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:17,840
He's taken it away and
she screamed again,

1381
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:19,560
and he squeezed for about 20 seconds.

1382
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:23,720
[somber music]

1383
01:17:41,200 --> 01:17:43,960
[somber music continues]

1384
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:45,560
- He said he hadn't
meant to kill her,

1385
01:17:46,440 --> 01:17:49,240
but then panicked and
disposed of the body.

1386
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:52,560
[car rumbles]

1387
01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:54,800
- That's nonsense.
There was a struggle.

1388
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:57,600
[tense music]

1389
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:03,360
There were around about
43 other injuries to Jo,

1390
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:07,600
including scratches to
her torso, her arms,

1391
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:11,080
and even a fractured nose,
which showed that

1392
01:18:11,080 --> 01:18:13,320
there had certainly been a
struggle prior to her death.

1393
01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:16,800
- And then the
prosecution believed that

1394
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:18,240
he'd driven around Bristol,

1395
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:21,400
visiting a supermarket with
Joanna's body in the car,

1396
01:18:21,480 --> 01:18:24,520
before he then drove across the river

1397
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:26,640
and put her body on
the side of the road.

1398
01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:33,160
- Joanna's family were distraught,
listening to

1399
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:36,840
the horrific detail of what
happened to their daughter

1400
01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:38,680
at the hands of Vincent Tabak.

1401
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:47,120
- He knew that Greg wasn't there
and gone back to Sheffield,

1402
01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:48,240
so she was home alone.

1403
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:51,640
He knew that his
girlfriend was gonna be out

1404
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:53,880
'til the early hours of the morning.

1405
01:18:54,440 --> 01:18:57,160
It was cold, cold and calculating.

1406
01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:03,200
[traffic rumbling]

1407
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:15,640
- Vincent Tabak is beginning
a life sentence tonight

1408
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:17,320
after a jury found him guilty of

1409
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:19,840
the murder of his
neighbor Joanna Yeates.

1410
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:22,560
Passing sentence, the
judge Mr. Justice Field,

1411
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:26,040
described him as wicked,
deceitful, and manipulative.

1412
01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:28,720
[solemn music]

1413
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:32,160
- You want to bring
closure to the family.

1414
01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:37,720
Here was a clearly heartbroken
family who wanted

1415
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:42,200
there to be somebody brought
to justice for Jo's death.

1416
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:45,480
[crowd murmuring]

1417
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:48,320
- I remember Jo's dad
coming to shake my hand

1418
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:50,920
after I'd given evidence in court,

1419
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:54,360
and he wouldn't let go of my hand,
and I've never forgotten it.

1420
01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:58,120
"Thank you. Thank you."

1421
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:04,280
[solemn music continues]

1422
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:20,000
[chairs rustling]

1423
01:20:22,240 --> 01:20:25,520
- The Leveson Inquiry
was an investigation into

1424
01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:29,520
the culture and practice of the
ethics of the British press.

1425
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:36,280
- The reputation of the British press

1426
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:39,040
was quickly disappearing down
the toilet, quite honestly.

1427
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:41,440
The News of The World was all about

1428
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:43,680
sex, drugs, and rock
and roll, really.

1429
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:47,160
We used to pursue those
topics with vigor,

1430
01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:49,480
and it was right.

1431
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:50,840
We needed to be tamed.

1432
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:53,440
[crowd chattering]
[cameras clicking]

1433
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:57,640
- The Leveson Inquiry was born out of
the phone-hacking scandal.

1434
01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:00,880
A variety of celebrities came forward

1435
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:02,680
that had their privacy breached,

1436
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:05,600
but it was in particular
the press's hacking of

1437
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:08,600
the phone of murdered
teenager Milly Dowler

1438
01:21:08,680 --> 01:21:10,880
that really brought
it into the forefront.

1439
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:15,200
- There really was a deep dive

1440
01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:18,800
into British press
standards at the time,

1441
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:23,600
and in order for that
inquiry to have substance,

1442
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:26,680
somebody like Christopher Jefferies

1443
01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:29,720
would be an important
person to hear from.

1444
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:33,840
- So may I call now Mr.
Christopher Jefferies?

1445
01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:38,280
- I appeared at the Leveson Inquiry

1446
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:41,760
to talk about my experience

1447
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:44,520
of the press coverage.

1448
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:50,600
The couple of months while
I was still under suspicion,

1449
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:52,160
without doubt,

1450
01:21:52,240 --> 01:21:56,960
the most difficult period
I think I have spent.

1451
01:21:57,920 --> 01:22:02,000
- Lord Leveson also took
evidence from journalists.

1452
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:04,160
- Everybody at The Daily Mirror

1453
01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:08,400
is very regretful of the coverage,

1454
01:22:08,480 --> 01:22:11,680
and, you know, we do
apologise to Mr. Jefferies

1455
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:13,600
for vilifying him in such a way.

1456
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:16,840
- But I'd like to specify
my sincere personal regrets

1457
01:22:16,920 --> 01:22:20,520
that my actions contributed
to and exacerbated

1458
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:23,280
the acute personal distress
felt by Mr. Jefferies.

1459
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:25,920
[tense music]

1460
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:28,560
[solemn music]

1461
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:36,000
- The Leveson Inquiry

1462
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:40,360
was also intended to investigate

1463
01:22:40,440 --> 01:22:43,320
potentially corrupt links

1464
01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:48,000
between the press and the police.

1465
01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:50,680
[gentle music]

1466
01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:53,480
- Several senior officers

1467
01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:55,960
in the Joanna Yeates investigation,

1468
01:22:56,040 --> 01:23:00,240
including the senior responsible
officer DCI Phil Jones

1469
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:02,240
and the Chief Constable Colin Port,

1470
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:04,040
gave evidence to the inquiry.

1471
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:08,360
[gentle music continues]

1472
01:23:10,440 --> 01:23:13,920
The inquiry was
looking at claims that

1473
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,320
Avon and Somerset Police had been

1474
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:20,360
institutionally leaking
information to the media.

1475
01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:22,400
[tense music]

1476
01:23:22,480 --> 01:23:24,240
The editor of The Mirror
gave a statement saying that

1477
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:27,360
they'd been doing
off-the-record briefings

1478
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:28,680
as part of the investigation.

1479
01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:33,640
- The police do give
guidance on these issues,

1480
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:37,760
and if they had not
indicated that they

1481
01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:42,680
had presumed they were
on the right track,

1482
01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:44,600
then I don't think the
journalists would've been

1483
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:46,440
writing what they've been writing.

1484
01:23:46,520 --> 01:23:48,760
- We don't give
off-the-record briefings,

1485
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:52,440
and to behave in a collusive
manner is just abhorrent.

1486
01:23:57,200 --> 01:23:58,760
- In the wake of Leveson,

1487
01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:03,320
police officers stopped
talking to people like me

1488
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:04,640
for a long time.

1489
01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:07,360
[morose music]

1490
01:24:07,440 --> 01:24:10,960
I would send texts,
I'd ring my contacts,

1491
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:13,400
and often they would either ignore me

1492
01:24:13,480 --> 01:24:15,600
or they would just say,
"Look, I can't talk to you

1493
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:20,680
because Leveson decreed that
there should be a record of,

1494
01:24:21,080 --> 01:24:24,200
you know, contact between
journalists and reporters,

1495
01:24:24,280 --> 01:24:26,960
and no police officer
will want to be known

1496
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:28,160
to be helping you."

1497
01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:31,240
[newspaper printer whirring]

1498
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:34,760
- After Leveson, the press were
trying to behave themselves

1499
01:24:34,840 --> 01:24:36,240
and had cleaned up their act.

1500
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:39,760
I think that's fair to say,
and they needed to,

1501
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:43,400
but at the end of the day,
it was too late.

1502
01:24:43,480 --> 01:24:44,960
The genie's out of the bottle.

1503
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:48,240
Social media had completely exploded.

1504
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:51,600
[solemn music]

1505
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:55,480
You've got Facebook,
TikTok, Instagram.

1506
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,320
The world has suddenly
become a journalist,

1507
01:24:58,400 --> 01:25:02,440
and people were just
writing whatever they liked.

1508
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:07,960
The whole media landscape has changed

1509
01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:11,040
and it's virtually unregulated.

1510
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:14,320
This is really dangerous
territory we've landed ourself in.

1511
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:17,800
Take, for instance, Nicola Bulley,

1512
01:25:20,640 --> 01:25:23,800
who tragically slipped

1513
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:26,560
into a river near her home.

1514
01:25:31,480 --> 01:25:32,840
- There were a lot of similarities

1515
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:34,840
between Joanna Yeates
and Nicola Bulley.

1516
01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:36,040
They're both whites.

1517
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:37,440
They're both middle class,

1518
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:42,120
but that frenzy of interest,

1519
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:43,960
back with Joanna, it was the press,

1520
01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:47,400
whereas with Nicola Bulley,
it was social media,

1521
01:25:47,480 --> 01:25:51,560
but it was the same kind of
hounding, relentless interest,

1522
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:55,000
day after day updates,
kind of stopping at nothing

1523
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:57,120
to get a new sliver of information.

1524
01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:02,160
They were both defamatory
in their own right.

1525
01:26:02,240 --> 01:26:04,960
We look at the level of defamation,

1526
01:26:05,040 --> 01:26:07,040
of false information in Nicola.

1527
01:26:07,120 --> 01:26:09,640
It was off the charts
compared to Joanna's case.

1528
01:26:10,440 --> 01:26:11,680
[keyboard clacking]

1529
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:13,560
- When Jo went missing,

1530
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:17,160
there were less than a billion
social media users worldwide

1531
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:20,520
on all platforms, but when
Nicola Bulley went missing,

1532
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:22,560
that had grown to five billion.

1533
01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:25,200
Can you imagine what it would be like

1534
01:26:25,280 --> 01:26:27,360
if Jo had gone missing today?

1535
01:26:27,440 --> 01:26:30,880
It would be across Insta, TikTok, X.

1536
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:33,160
It would be explosive,

1537
01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:35,880
and the fate of Christopher Jefferies

1538
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:37,680
on those social media platforms,

1539
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:39,560
it doesn't even bear thinking about.

1540
01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:44,560
- It was the Nicola Bulley case

1541
01:26:45,440 --> 01:26:48,240
that has begun to turn the
tide in our relationship

1542
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:52,720
to a point where
police chiefs in the UK

1543
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:56,920
have now drawn up a
kind of new protocol

1544
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:00,320
where we are beginning
to talk to each other

1545
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:03,880
in the way that we used
to pre the Leveson report.

1546
01:27:06,480 --> 01:27:11,480
[tender music]
[traffic distantly rumbling]

1547
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:18,240
- The funeral of murdered
landscape architect Jo Yeates

1548
01:27:18,320 --> 01:27:21,560
took place today in the Hampshire
village where she grew up.

1549
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:24,120
Ms. Yeates' coffin was
followed by her parents,

1550
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:26,720
David and Teresa, and
her brother Chris.

1551
01:27:28,840 --> 01:27:31,360
Greg Reardon, her boyfriend,
followed them.

1552
01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:36,120
[tender music continues]

1553
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:43,200
- Jo was one of the
world's good people.

1554
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:46,360
She was a genuinely nice,
good person.

1555
01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:53,440
- Jo was a young woman

1556
01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:59,080
recently in a relationship
with her boyfriend.

1557
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:02,640
This was the first time

1558
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:06,480
that they were going to
set up house together.

1559
01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:10,840
She was certainly very much in love.

1560
01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:18,840
She was somebody with a
promising career before her.

1561
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:24,400
- Particularly on this case,
you do think of, you know,

1562
01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:28,640
the sadness of her lost
life and her family.

1563
01:28:30,400 --> 01:28:34,360
They're still left with this
huge empty hole in their lives.

1564
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:38,680
[tender music continues]

1565
01:28:42,200 --> 01:28:46,440
- When people ask me about my
previous career in the police

1566
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:49,200
and they learn about
the Jo Yeates case,

1567
01:28:49,280 --> 01:28:51,360
they always mention Chris Jefferies.

1568
01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:54,600
Not Tabak.

1569
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:56,960
Not Jo.

1570
01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:02,240
That's people's memory of
this particular murder.

1571
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:09,720
- Perhaps they do
forget that, you know,

1572
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:10,920
at the heart of this story

1573
01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:12,880
is the awful murder of a young woman.

1574
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:17,720
- There's cases that stay with you.

1575
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:23,600
I often drive by the
scene and remember her,

1576
01:29:25,120 --> 01:29:28,600
and there's still flowers left there.

1577
01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:31,760
[gentle piano music]

1578
01:30:00,480 --> 01:30:04,080
[gentle piano music continues]

1579
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:35,800
[gentle orchestral music]