:00:10. > :00:13.Good evening and welcome to a special edition of BBC Points West.
:00:13. > :00:16.Tonight - we're devoting our entire programme to the murder conviction
:00:16. > :00:21.of Vincent Tabak, after one of the most high profile trials in the
:00:21. > :00:31.West in a generation. In the programme tonight. The aftermath of
:00:31. > :00:36.the verdict - we have reaction from outside Court Number One. Ball past,
:00:36. > :00:40.it is with regret that capital punishment is not an option for his
:00:40. > :00:47.sentence. Born here in Holland - but this Dutchman was not as
:00:47. > :00:53.innocent as he looked - we reveal his secret life. The police believe
:00:53. > :00:56.Tabak had contact with prostitutes and visited violent pornographic
:00:56. > :01:00.websites including some which depicted young women being
:01:00. > :01:04.strangled, but the jury was told none of that. And we have a special
:01:04. > :01:07.report on the police investigation - from the triumph of the arrest to
:01:07. > :01:12.the surreal appeals for missing pizzas. And read all about it - how
:01:12. > :01:16.this case could change the press forever.
:01:16. > :01:19.Hello, tonight we're also live on the BBC News Channel. After a trial
:01:19. > :01:23.that gripped millions across the West and the whole of Britain -
:01:23. > :01:27.this evening - Vincent Tabak is a convicted murderer. He's been
:01:27. > :01:31.sentenced to life imprisonment - with a minimum of 20 years for what
:01:31. > :01:36.the judge called an "evil" act. Tabak always admitted killing
:01:36. > :01:40.Joanna Yeates, but crucially denied that he intended to do so. But the
:01:40. > :01:43.jury decided - by a majority verdict - that he was lying. Jo was
:01:43. > :01:47.strangled in December and her body was found frozen and dumped in the
:01:47. > :01:57.snow on Christmas Day. Our first report comes from Bristol Crown
:01:57. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :02:06.Court - here's Imogen Sellers. Driven away from court to begin a
:02:06. > :02:12.life sentence. The jury found at the 33-year-old Dutch engineer
:02:12. > :02:16.guilty of his neighbour's murder after over 13 hours of deliberation.
:02:16. > :02:21.Joanna's parents were not in court today but her boyfriend sat
:02:21. > :02:27.motionless in the front row of the public gallery. Vincent Tabak sat
:02:27. > :02:32.with his head classed in his hands. He denied the murder but admitted
:02:32. > :02:38.manslaughter. China's family had had to sit in court and listen to
:02:38. > :02:45.his account of how he strangled her, not to coarser harm, he claimed,
:02:45. > :02:50.but to stop her screams. The jury and the judge did not believe him.
:02:50. > :02:53.During sentencing, Mr Justice Field described Vincent Tabak as a very
:02:53. > :02:57.dangerous man. He caused devastation and stress to have
:02:57. > :03:03.family not only by taking her life but by hiding her body in the
:03:03. > :03:08.manner that he did. As Damon was read on behalf of the family.
:03:08. > :03:13.us, it is with regret that capital punishment is not an option for the
:03:13. > :03:19.sentence. The best we can hope for him is that he spends the rest of
:03:19. > :03:24.his life incarcerated, where his life is a living hell, being the
:03:24. > :03:28.recipient of all the degradations that his situation can provide.
:03:29. > :03:32.Vincent Tabak is an intelligent and manipulative man. A man who killed
:03:32. > :03:38.Jo and then had the presence of mind to dispose of the body and
:03:38. > :03:43.evidence linking him to the flat. Tonight, Vincent Tabak begins his
:03:43. > :03:46.life sentence behind bars but for the family of Jo Yeates, their
:03:46. > :03:53.delight sentence began on Christmas Day last year when they discovered
:03:53. > :03:58.that their beloved daughter was dead -- their life sentence. Now
:03:58. > :04:02.they hope that she can be remembered for the happy times
:04:02. > :04:05.before all her dreams and her potential was snuffed out.
:04:05. > :04:08.From the moment Jo's body was discovered on Christmas Day, Avon
:04:08. > :04:12.and Somerset Police came under huge and intense pressure to find her
:04:12. > :04:15.killer. At times the investigation was baffling. There were press
:04:15. > :04:18.conferences about a missing pizza and a missing sock. And of course,
:04:18. > :04:23.the high profile arrest - of the wrong suspect, her landlord
:04:23. > :04:28.Christopher Jefferies. Away from the cameras, detectives analysed
:04:28. > :04:31.hours of CCTV footage and forensic evidence. Eventually their
:04:31. > :04:37.determination paid off, and, nearly four weeks after Jo's death,
:04:37. > :04:40.Vincent Tabak was arrested in a dawn raid. Our home affairs
:04:40. > :04:48.correspondent, Steve Brodie, has followed the police inquiry from
:04:48. > :04:56.the outset. The search for Jo Yeates ended here
:04:56. > :05:01.on Christmas Day. Her body was found by a couple out walking their
:05:01. > :05:04.dog. She was by a roadside and covered in snow. The discovery
:05:04. > :05:10.started one of the most high profile investigations in the
:05:10. > :05:16.history of Avon and Somerset Police. 25-year-old Jo Yeates disappeared
:05:16. > :05:19.on Friday 17th of December - a week before Christmas. Earlier in the
:05:19. > :05:24.day, she had said goodbye to her boyfriend, Greg Reardon, before he
:05:24. > :05:28.left for a weekend with his family in Sheffield. Greg said they'd had
:05:28. > :05:32.a kiss and a cuddle. It was the last time they would be together.
:05:32. > :05:36.After work she'd gone for drinks with friends in the Ram, a pub on
:05:36. > :05:42.Park Street in Bristol city centre. Then, at about 8pm, Jo began
:05:42. > :05:47.walking home to her flat in Clifton. CCTV showed her browsing in
:05:47. > :05:53.Waitrose before moving on to get some cider in this off licence. And
:05:53. > :05:56.then buying a pizza from the Tesco Express in Clifton Village. Along
:05:56. > :06:00.the way she called her best friend, Rebecca Scott, to arrange to meet
:06:00. > :06:09.up on Christmas Eve - and got back to her flat here on Canayge Road
:06:09. > :06:14.sometime after 8.30pm. She wasn't seen alive again. Two days later,
:06:14. > :06:18.Greg Reardon returned home. When he got into their flat he noticed it
:06:18. > :06:21.was untidy. When he rang Jo's mobile phone and heard it ringing
:06:21. > :06:27.inside her jacket he knew something was badly wrong and called the
:06:27. > :06:33.police. The next day - at the first of many police press conferences -
:06:33. > :06:37.Greg and Jo's parents made an emotional appeal. Jo is a vibrant
:06:37. > :06:45.young woman and this is completely out of character for her. We need
:06:45. > :06:49.your help to find her. Days later, a bizarre development. The police
:06:49. > :06:52.appealed to the public about a missing pizza. Jo's parents tried
:06:53. > :06:57.to remain hopeful, but on Christmas Day they were shattered by the news
:06:57. > :07:00.of her death. We were involved with assisting the police and so, having
:07:00. > :07:04.been there most of the day, very cold, I travelled home alone rather
:07:04. > :07:08.than going back to the fire station. And you're just left with that
:07:08. > :07:12.thought of there's nothing you can do to help anybody. The police had
:07:12. > :07:15.to be very careful first of all how they actually moved her body so
:07:15. > :07:18.that nothing was missed and then the pathologist had to wait a
:07:18. > :07:22.considerable period of time under very controlled circumstances to
:07:22. > :07:32.allow her body to defrost so that any signs or markings on her body
:07:32. > :07:37.
:07:37. > :07:43.or any material was recovered very carefully. A missing person inquiry
:07:43. > :07:48.now became a murder hunt. Blood stains were found on the wall in
:07:48. > :07:52.Longwood Lane. A post mortem showed Jo had 43 separate injuries on her
:07:52. > :07:56.body and she'd been strangled. Under the intense gaze of the media,
:07:56. > :07:59.detectives removed evidence from Jo's flat. Two days after Jo's
:07:59. > :08:05.disappearance, officers knocked on the door of her neighbours Vincent
:08:05. > :08:09.Tabak and and his girlfriend, Tanya Morson. Tabak said he knew nothing.
:08:09. > :08:14.But after a call from Tanya, on holiday in Holland after Christmas,
:08:14. > :08:17.detectives flew out to see the couple again. In a hotel room in
:08:17. > :08:20.Amsterdam, Tabak reluctantly gave a DNA swab. Then a dramatic
:08:20. > :08:25.development - on December 30th, Jo's landlord, Christopher
:08:25. > :08:29.Jefferies, was arrested on suspicion of murder. His car was
:08:29. > :08:34.taken away for tests. Many of the national newspapers declared an
:08:34. > :08:37.innocent Mr Jefferies the number one suspect. But after three days
:08:37. > :08:43.the former Clifton College teacher was released on police bail - his
:08:43. > :08:47.reputation rubbished by the tabloids. Next the police appealed
:08:47. > :08:52.to to the public for help in finding a sock missing from Jo's
:08:52. > :08:58.body. During his trial, Tabak claimed that on the night he killed
:08:58. > :09:01.Jo he left his ground floor flat to go shopping. As he walked by Jo's
:09:01. > :09:11.kitchen window, they caught each other's eye and she invited him in
:09:11. > :09:15.
:09:15. > :09:20.and offered him a drink. Joke Yeates and her partner had only
:09:20. > :09:23.moved in in the autumn and Vincent Tabak have been out of the country
:09:23. > :09:28.for about five weeks working in America so his opportunity to get
:09:28. > :09:35.to meet them was very limited. We believe that they probably had not
:09:35. > :09:43.met. Tabak claimed he mis-read her friendliness and went to kiss her
:09:43. > :09:47.on the lips. She screamed and he put his hand over her mouth. When
:09:48. > :09:53.he took his hand away she screamed again. He said he put his hand
:09:53. > :09:57.around her throat. 20 seconds or so later, Jo Yeates was dead. CCTV
:09:57. > :10:01.showed that after strangling her, he went to Asda, apparently with
:10:01. > :10:05.Jo's body in the boot of his car. While there he texted his
:10:05. > :10:09.girlfriend to say, "I'm bored and missing you". Later detectives
:10:09. > :10:13.found tiny traces of her blood in the boot, and DNA found on Jo's
:10:13. > :10:16.body proved he was the killer. heard nothing more following his
:10:16. > :10:20.guilty plea to manslaughter until we received a defence case
:10:20. > :10:25.statement which very briefly said, "Yes - I was invited in, I killed
:10:25. > :10:31.her, I moved her body". But the why and the wherefore was completely
:10:31. > :10:34.lacking. The jury were never told that before he killed, the police
:10:34. > :10:37.discovered computer records showing that Tabak used pornorgraphic sites
:10:37. > :10:44.and may have paid for a prostitute during the work trip to America in
:10:44. > :10:47.the weeks before Jo was killed. In the end, it was well trodden
:10:47. > :10:54.investigation techniques which paid off. Countless interviews, hours of
:10:54. > :10:57.analysing of CCTV footage and forensics which led to the killer.
:10:57. > :11:05.Vincent Tabak may have thought he'd got away with murdering Jo Yeates -
:11:05. > :11:11.but in the end it was only a matter of time.
:11:11. > :11:17.So what do we know about Vincent Tabak? Well he's 33. He was born in
:11:17. > :11:21.Holland. He's a well-educated man with a degree in architecture. He
:11:21. > :11:26.had a very unusual job - he's a leading expert on how crowds behave
:11:26. > :11:30.in buildings. Until his arrest, he was working at the engineering firm
:11:30. > :11:34.Buro Happold in Bath. And, of course, he became Jo's neighbour
:11:34. > :11:43.when he moved to Clifton. But the Dutchman had a number of secrets
:11:43. > :11:48.which the jury was never told about. John Maguire is in Canynge Road now.
:11:48. > :11:53.You hear it said so often, it is a truism, that nobody expected such a
:11:53. > :11:58.horrible crime to take place in this area. No one expected the
:11:58. > :12:02.murderer to be their neighbour, the quite European who lived in that
:12:02. > :12:12.basement flat next door to the flat where Jodie lived, next door to the
:12:12. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:16.flat of Jo, the girl whose name he never even knew.
:12:16. > :12:21.This is North Brabant, where Vicent Tabak lived until leaving to work
:12:21. > :12:24.in the UK. Motorways cut through tracts of farmland and it seems a
:12:25. > :12:30.million miles from the industry and the brash vitality of Amsterdam and
:12:30. > :12:35.Rotterdam. To a British visitor, Uden, the town where he grew up,
:12:35. > :12:40.appears neat, orderly, quiet. As a boy this was his house - his
:12:40. > :12:43.brothers and sisters were all older than him. His neighbour John
:12:43. > :12:53.Massoeurs tells me that Vincent's parents were relatively old - he
:12:53. > :12:53.
:12:53. > :13:03.was a latecomer, he says, intelligent but withdrawn. He was
:13:03. > :13:03.
:13:03. > :13:11.buried inside. What do you mean by that? -- Berry inside. We call that
:13:11. > :13:17.introvert. Introverted. And hearing the news from England, what was
:13:17. > :13:27.your reaction? I was really surprised because I thought, have
:13:27. > :13:28.
:13:28. > :13:33.been sent? He is not able to do that. I could not believe it.
:13:33. > :13:41.seems that no one really knew Vincent Tabak. It is only now that
:13:41. > :13:45.we are learning that his public persona may have been at his seat.
:13:45. > :13:49.-- a deceit. Half an hour down the A50 across Holland's famously flat
:13:49. > :13:53.landscape lies the city of Eindhoven. This is where Tabak went
:13:53. > :13:56.to university. The city is renowned as the home of the electronics
:13:56. > :13:58.giant Philips. For generations it has earned a reputation for
:13:58. > :14:02.excellence in engineering, innovation and intelligence. Tabak
:14:02. > :14:06.studied architecture here at the University of Technology. He worked
:14:06. > :14:11.on several academic reports but no- one here is prepared to talk about
:14:11. > :14:15.their friend and former colleague. At the local newspaper I meet Max
:14:15. > :14:19.Steenberghe. The story of Tabak's arrest did make front page news
:14:19. > :14:29.here, albeit for one day only - a marked contrast to the coverage in
:14:29. > :14:32.
:14:32. > :14:36.the UK. It says surprise arrest of former inhabitant of Eindhoven, now
:14:36. > :14:40.a suspect in murder. The picture shows the house in Aberdeen Road
:14:40. > :14:46.where Tabak was arrested in a friend's flat. But building up a
:14:46. > :14:52.picture of the murder suspect in his home country proved diffcult.
:14:52. > :14:55.Students who come here come to do that we'll studying so they are
:14:55. > :15:01.mainly the quiet type to go home to study their books rather than
:15:01. > :15:05.chasing women, and he was no exception to that. We contact is
:15:05. > :15:09.his neighbours who did not really remember him other than being a
:15:09. > :15:14.nice, quiet them man who shook their hands when he came that there
:15:14. > :15:22.live and should it again when he left and that was about it.
:15:22. > :15:28.hear the same thing time and time again about the man. People say he
:15:28. > :15:32.is quiet, unassuming, intelligent, but the murderer? At least at first,
:15:32. > :15:35.many people refused to believe it. When the news of the arrest broke
:15:35. > :15:38.here many speculated that he seemed like a convenient fit for the crime.
:15:39. > :15:48.But Eindhoven journalist Alice van der Plas tells me opinion changed
:15:48. > :15:52.in May when Tabak admitted he had killed Jo. We started watching the
:15:52. > :16:00.forums. Usually people rush to judgment when the suspect is
:16:00. > :16:04.arrested. They are not very nuanced about it. But here they were kind
:16:05. > :16:09.of doubtful. Well, he might be innocent, you never know, this
:16:10. > :16:14.might be because of police pressure. But then he admitted to killing her
:16:14. > :16:19.and then it changed immediately. But now we know about the secret
:16:19. > :16:22.life that Tabak led. He came to Bath to work for the engineering
:16:22. > :16:26.firm Buro Happold, and met his girlfriend Tanja Morson on this
:16:26. > :16:29.dating website. Throughout the trial he stressed his devotion to
:16:30. > :16:32.her but the jury wasn't told about the other sites the prosecution
:16:32. > :16:42.said he visited after Jo's death - including pornographic films
:16:42. > :16:43.
:16:43. > :16:49.depicting young women being strangled. Also claims that he may
:16:49. > :16:53.have contacted prostitutes in the weeks before Jo's death. The judge
:16:53. > :16:56.refused to allow the jury to see any of this evidence. Tabak was
:16:56. > :16:58.described throughout his trial as calculating and manipulative - but
:16:58. > :17:08.when his innermost thoughts, his sexual fantasies, became a reality
:17:08. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:15.- the cost was a young woman's life. Talking to people here this evening,
:17:15. > :17:20.the one thing that seemed to come across a wide and clear, and also
:17:20. > :17:24.on social networking site, is the concern for the family of Jo Yeates,
:17:24. > :17:28.what they have had to go through in the court process and today some
:17:28. > :17:33.satisfaction that this guilty verdict will give them some small
:17:33. > :17:40.amount of solace. At the flat tonight there are floral tributes,
:17:40. > :17:43.a candle and this handwritten note St justice for Jo, rest in peace.
:17:43. > :17:46.So why wasn't the jury told about Vincent Tabak's interest in
:17:46. > :17:54.pornography and his believed involvement with prostitutes? I'm
:17:54. > :18:00.joined now by the legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg. Can you help us
:18:00. > :18:03.on this? The jury did not seem to have the full picture. This sort of
:18:03. > :18:10.information, particularly about pornography, would have been highly
:18:10. > :18:16.prejudicial. It would have made the jury think he was guilty but it was
:18:16. > :18:21.not very probative, did not really prove anything. Plenty of people
:18:21. > :18:25.news pornography or even prostitutes without being murderers.
:18:25. > :18:29.So the judge would have been worried that if the jury had
:18:29. > :18:33.convicted having been given this evidence, then Vincent Tabak would
:18:33. > :18:38.have argued before the Court of Appeal that he had not had a fair
:18:39. > :18:45.trial I should be cleared on appeal. It was all about intent but how
:18:45. > :18:50.difficult is it to prove intent? You can infer intent and obviously
:18:50. > :18:56.the jury were well aware that he concealed Joanna Yeates's body in
:18:56. > :19:01.his car, drove it away and hid it. If it was all a terrible accident,
:19:01. > :19:06.as he claimed, if he did not intend to kill her or cause serious harm,
:19:06. > :19:12.you would have thought he would have contacted the police as soon
:19:12. > :19:17.as she died. I'm sure the jury were able to infer that he did intend to
:19:17. > :19:24.conceal her body and that suggested that he intended to kill her.
:19:24. > :19:30.judge has said a minimum tariff of 20 years. How does that rating
:19:30. > :19:35.terms of murder sentencing? absolute minimum is 15 years and
:19:35. > :19:39.you can get 30 years for murder of with sexual content. But this is 20
:19:39. > :19:42.years he will have to spend before he is even considered for his
:19:42. > :19:47.release. For days, the disappearance of Jo
:19:47. > :19:50.Yeates filled Britain's front pages. First - the baffling disappearance
:19:50. > :19:55.- then the clues - captured the interest of journalists and the
:19:55. > :19:58.public. But some of the reporting went badly wrong - and some
:19:58. > :20:08.newspapers found themselves in court. Scott Ellis reports on how
:20:08. > :20:09.
:20:09. > :20:15.the Jo Yeates case may change British journalism. It is a harsh
:20:15. > :20:20.truth. Everything about Jo Gates meant her story made headlines for
:20:21. > :20:28.months in Britain's mass media -- Joanna Yeates. No one knows that
:20:28. > :20:33.better than former Fleet Street editor Roy Greenslade. It is a
:20:33. > :20:40.combination of the timing, at Christmas, up the mystery, thirdly
:20:40. > :20:45.that she was blonde, white and a woman and, for flick, there was
:20:45. > :20:49.there because of class, middle class, an architect. It is very
:20:49. > :20:54.unusual for that to happen. The combination of those factors
:20:54. > :20:59.ensured that there will be terrific coverage in the papers. It meant
:20:59. > :21:04.that Clift and's Canynge Road became a media feeding ground for a
:21:04. > :21:10.press pack desperate for new leads every day, every hour. An affluent
:21:10. > :21:14.Bristol suburb now under siege. cannot walk down a street without
:21:14. > :21:19.somebody asking you questions and having to be escorted to your door
:21:19. > :21:23.to get in and out. One President took the snapshots of the media
:21:23. > :21:30.storm on her doorstep and her neighbours also recall the barrage
:21:30. > :21:34.of reporters. It became -- we became more and more annoyed by
:21:35. > :21:40.them. You would say something quite simple and they would say, do you
:21:40. > :21:47.mean this? It would make it more sensational about was the case.
:21:47. > :21:52.That became quite difficult. So we stopped talking to them. The police
:21:52. > :21:59.were also beginning to feel the media pressure, the more so as the
:21:59. > :22:04.case drag on. Criminologist David Wilson says the vital drip-feeding
:22:05. > :22:09.of information to reporters dried up. An impatient media seemed to
:22:09. > :22:13.turn against the police. It is quite clear that Avon and Somerset
:22:13. > :22:17.police did not come up to the mark. It is quite clear that they were
:22:17. > :22:22.not servicing the needs of the media and that the relationship
:22:22. > :22:28.between the media and the police broke down. At one point, the
:22:28. > :22:32.police band a national broadcaster from a press conference after they
:22:32. > :22:37.criticise the investigation. Ultimately, though, it was the
:22:37. > :22:41.media who came off worst in the case. Eight national newspapers had
:22:41. > :22:47.to pay libel damages for reports about the landlord Christopher
:22:47. > :22:49.Jeffries. Christopher Jeffries is the latest victim of the regular
:22:49. > :22:54.witch-hunts and character assassination conducted by the
:22:54. > :22:58.worst elements of the British tabloid media. Many of the stories
:22:58. > :23:02.published in these newspapers are designed to monster the individual.
:23:02. > :23:09.After a case brought by the Attorney-General, Dominic Grieve,
:23:09. > :23:15.two were fined under the contempt of Court Act. I think the case will
:23:15. > :23:20.be quoted widely in future as the moment that the senior law officer
:23:20. > :23:24.of the land decided that the press were getting weight to Liberal in
:23:24. > :23:32.the way they were dealing with criminal cases. And I am waiting
:23:32. > :23:39.for him now, and expecting him to make a big public statement about
:23:39. > :23:45.how he sees contempt law being told Withe by the Attorney General in
:23:45. > :23:49.the future. So the British press went too far off. For the residents,
:23:49. > :23:56.the media storm moved on an issue Stuart Broad neighbours closer
:23:56. > :24:01.together. We had a street party for the Royal Wedding and that is the
:24:01. > :24:04.first time we have known there be anything like that. And surely we
:24:04. > :24:13.should be knowing each other, knowing our neighbours and being a
:24:13. > :24:17.bit more friendly. Ultimately, the meteor storm confirms an ugly truth.
:24:17. > :24:22.We were the first nation to use murder stories to sell newspapers
:24:22. > :24:26.and in the multimedia age, that fascination with murder continues.
:24:26. > :24:30.Jo's family are keen that she is remembered not as a news story, or
:24:30. > :24:35.a victim - but as a human being. Her parents say she was a daughter
:24:35. > :24:39.to be proud of. Her boyfriend calls her a lovely and genuine partner.
:24:39. > :24:45.Amanda Parr has been looking at Jo's legacy.
:24:45. > :24:52.Sunny, kind, gifted but modest. A free spirit at home in the fresh
:24:52. > :24:55.air. The words of those who knew her say it best. From the very
:24:55. > :25:00.first hours of her disappearance, her many friends, and her devoted
:25:00. > :25:04.family, went searching. But soon, the fliers and the vigils were
:25:04. > :25:10.abandoned. Instead, books of condolence and flowers outside her
:25:10. > :25:13.flat and where her body was discovered. Every bunch and
:25:13. > :25:20.arrangement graced with words of comfort, expressions of loss, and
:25:20. > :25:26.unutterable sadness. After finding ways to say goodbye, friends and
:25:26. > :25:30.colleagues are seeking ways to remember. And some have found the
:25:30. > :25:40.perfect place. A 180-acre garden near Jo's childhood home - she
:25:40. > :25:40.
:25:40. > :25:43.worked here before going on to study landscape architecture. With
:25:43. > :25:46.the blessing of David and Teresa Yeates, a quiet corner will be
:25:46. > :25:56.redesigned in the shape of a butterfly's wing, flowing with
:25:56. > :25:57.
:25:57. > :26:02.grasses and wildflowers. It was full of butterflies earlier on in
:26:02. > :26:07.the summer and we just felt this was meant to be. People who do know
:26:07. > :26:12.her well feel this epitomises what her personal to was like, very
:26:12. > :26:18.organic, natural, and a few people go away feeling the warmth from
:26:18. > :26:24.visiting the site. Once it had emerged what had happened, the idea
:26:24. > :26:28.emerged of the celebration of her life as a really good way of
:26:28. > :26:33.focusing the joyous part of her personality and sending a message
:26:33. > :26:37.to her grief-stricken parents that people out there really cared and
:26:37. > :26:39.will carry on thinking about her. Jo's old firm, the Building Design
:26:39. > :26:42.Partnership, is sponsoring a Landscape Design prize where she
:26:42. > :26:47.studied, at the University of Gloucestershire. They're also
:26:47. > :26:51.building her a garden. And staff dedicated a bike ride to her - Jo's
:26:51. > :26:55.boyfriend Greg took part and helped choose the charities to benefit.
:26:55. > :27:00.He's said the memory of Jo will always be with him as he looks
:27:00. > :27:03.across Bristol's harbour - she loved it there. One of many places
:27:03. > :27:07.Jo's dear friends and family can now celebrate her life - the girl
:27:07. > :27:17.they call one of the most lovely and genuine people to have graced
:27:17. > :27:21.this earth. You've been watching a special
:27:21. > :27:26.edition of BBC Points West on the day Vincent Tabak was jailed for
:27:26. > :27:31.life for the murder of Jo Yeates. If you want more on this story