He added Tabak had committed "a dreadful, evil act on a vulnerable young woman" and that he intended to go "much further" after attempting to kiss her. In my opinion you are thoroughly deceitful, dishonest and manipulative. The jury had found Tabak guilty by a majority decision of after three days of deliberations. The judge said there were no mitigating features in this case - only aggravating factors.
He said Tabak put Miss Yeates's family through "seven days of agony" and added that his sexual purpose had only been thwarted by Miss Yeates's "loud and gestured screams". Miss Yeates's family, of Ampfield, Hampshire, welcomed the sentence but said it was a "regret that capital punishment is not an option". Neither her father, David, nor her mother, Theresa, were in court to hear the verdict but Miss Yeates's boyfriend, Greg Reardon, attended and shook the hands of police officers after Tabak was found guilty.
But when Greg returned home on December 19, and there was no sign of his girlfriend in their flat, the worried boyfriend reported Joanna missing. Joanna's disappearance was very out of character, and police were quickly worried. Police traced Joanna's movements on the night she went missing. She left the pub at around 8pm to begin the walk the minute walk back to her flat, but stopped off briefly at a Waitrose supermarket. She didn't buy anything there, but left the shop around 8.
Although there's no CCTV to prove it, detectives believed Joanna made it home to her flat because the Tesco receipt for the pizza was later discovered there, along with the coat she had been wearing that night, her mobile phone and keys. But from there, they were at a loss.
Where was she? Why did she appear to have vanished into thin air? The pizza Joanna had bought on the night of her disappearance all of a sudden became central to the investigation when police noticed there was no trace of it in the year-old's flat.
If she had eaten the pizza, surely the box would have been discovered in a nearby bin. If she hadn't eaten the pizza, it should theoretically still have been inside the flat. There didn't seem to be any answers. A few days into Joanna Yeates' disappearance, and her loved ones were getting increasingly desperate to find her.
But as the time went on, they became more and more fearful that wouldn't happen. Joanna's mother, Teresa, agreed. She knew her daughter had planned to spend a quiet weekend in the flat in Clifton to prepare for a party she and Greg were planning to host the following Tuesday.
The nearer to Christmas it got, the more panic spread. Developments were sparse in the case, and investigators were baffled over what could have happened to the seemingly-happy year-old. He joked to friends that they must have thought he had stashed her in a drawer. Tabak and Morson, the daughter of a Harvard-educated lawyer, then left Bristol to spend Christmas in Cambridge at her parents' home.
On Christmas Eve, Detective Constable Karen Thomas, a member of the police's major crime investigation team, spoke to Tabak by telephone about his movements on the night of Yeates's disappearance. He told her he was in all evening before driving in the early hours of the morning to pick up Morson after a work party. He was able to say he did not know Yeates. She and Reardon moved in at the start of October and he left for a business trip in California on 6 November, only returning on 11 December, six days before the killing.
They were in effect strangers. On Christmas morning, at about the time Tabak and Morson — who remained ignorant of her boyfriend's crime — were opening their gifts, Yeates's body was found by a dog walker, covered in leaves and a pile of snow next to a quarry wall at Longwood Lane, Failand, three miles from Clifton. It looked as if the killer had tried to heave the body over the wall.
Had he succeeded Yeates could still be a missing person. The media interest became a frenzy. One tabloid suggested Yeates may have been held captive for several days before she was killed. Another theory was that she may have been dumped at the scene alive and died of hypothermia.
The public was fascinated by the details. What had happened to the pizza, which was never found? Why had she bought two bottles of cider? Was she meeting someone? Was the killer waiting for her at the flat? Why was there no sign of a break-in? Only Tabak knew the truth and he was not telling. On 28 December he and Morson drove via Eurotunnel to the Netherlands where they were to spend new year with Tabak's family.
There was no escape from the Yeates story in the Netherlands. On 30 December, Tabak and Morson watched a television news report of the arrest of Joanna Yeates's landlord, the former public school teacher Christopher Jefferies, over the killing. The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies , which first aired in and is being shown again on ITV, is based on the true story of the retired schoolteacher who was falsely suspected of her murder and hounded by the tabloid press. In December , Yeates, who was living in Bristol with her boyfriend Greg Reardon, was reported missing.
Yeates was last seen alive on 17 December, but when Reardon, who had been away for the weekend, returned to the flat they shared two days later, Yeates was not there. Her body was discovered on Christmas Day in the snow on a roadside near a quarry in Somerset, around three miles from her home.
Police first focused their attention on Jefferies , a retired English teacher who Yeates and her boyfriend had been renting a flat from. Jefferies was questioned by police and was released without charge, but this did not deter parts of the press from printing false and offensive claims about him. Some of the reports about Jefferies led to him launching a series of libel cases and winning damages from eight publications.
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