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Good evening and welcome to a special edition of BBC Points West.

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Tonight - we're devoting our entire programme to the murder conviction

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of Vincent Tabak, after one of the most high profile trials in the

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West in a generation. In the programme tonight. The aftermath of

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the verdict - we have reaction from outside Court Number One. Ball past,

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it is with regret that capital punishment is not an option for his

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sentence. Born here in Holland - but this Dutchman was not as

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innocent as he looked - we reveal his secret life. The police believe

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Tabak had contact with prostitutes and visited violent pornographic

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websites including some which depicted young women being

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strangled, but the jury was told none of that. And we have a special

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report on the police investigation - from the triumph of the arrest to

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the surreal appeals for missing pizzas. And read all about it - how

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this case could change the press forever.

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Hello, tonight we're also live on the BBC News Channel. After a trial

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that gripped millions across the West and the whole of Britain -

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this evening - Vincent Tabak is a convicted murderer. He's been

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sentenced to life imprisonment - with a minimum of 20 years for what

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the judge called an "evil" act. Tabak always admitted killing

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Joanna Yeates, but crucially denied that he intended to do so. But the

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jury decided - by a majority verdict - that he was lying. Jo was

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strangled in December and her body was found frozen and dumped in the

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snow on Christmas Day. Our first report comes from Bristol Crown

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Court - here's Imogen Sellers. Driven away from court to begin a

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life sentence. The jury found at the 33-year-old Dutch engineer

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guilty of his neighbour's murder after over 13 hours of deliberation.

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Joanna's parents were not in court today but her boyfriend sat

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motionless in the front row of the public gallery. Vincent Tabak sat

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with his head classed in his hands. He denied the murder but admitted

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manslaughter. China's family had had to sit in court and listen to

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his account of how he strangled her, not to coarser harm, he claimed,

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but to stop her screams. The jury and the judge did not believe him.

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During sentencing, Mr Justice Field described Vincent Tabak as a very

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dangerous man. He caused devastation and stress to have

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family not only by taking her life but by hiding her body in the

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manner that he did. As Damon was read on behalf of the family.

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us, it is with regret that capital punishment is not an option for the

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sentence. The best we can hope for him is that he spends the rest of

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his life incarcerated, where his life is a living hell, being the

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recipient of all the degradations that his situation can provide.

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Vincent Tabak is an intelligent and manipulative man. A man who killed

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Jo and then had the presence of mind to dispose of the body and

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evidence linking him to the flat. Tonight, Vincent Tabak begins his

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life sentence behind bars but for the family of Jo Yeates, their

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delight sentence began on Christmas Day last year when they discovered

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that their beloved daughter was dead -- their life sentence. Now

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they hope that she can be remembered for the happy times

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before all her dreams and her potential was snuffed out.

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From the moment Jo's body was discovered on Christmas Day, Avon

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and Somerset Police came under huge and intense pressure to find her

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killer. At times the investigation was baffling. There were press

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conferences about a missing pizza and a missing sock. And of course,

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the high profile arrest - of the wrong suspect, her landlord

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Christopher Jefferies. Away from the cameras, detectives analysed

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hours of CCTV footage and forensic evidence. Eventually their

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determination paid off, and, nearly four weeks after Jo's death,

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Vincent Tabak was arrested in a dawn raid. Our home affairs

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correspondent, Steve Brodie, has followed the police inquiry from

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the outset. The search for Jo Yeates ended here

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on Christmas Day. Her body was found by a couple out walking their

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dog. She was by a roadside and covered in snow. The discovery

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started one of the most high profile investigations in the

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history of Avon and Somerset Police. 25-year-old Jo Yeates disappeared

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on Friday 17th of December - a week before Christmas. Earlier in the

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day, she had said goodbye to her boyfriend, Greg Reardon, before he

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left for a weekend with his family in Sheffield. Greg said they'd had

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a kiss and a cuddle. It was the last time they would be together.

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After work she'd gone for drinks with friends in the Ram, a pub on

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Park Street in Bristol city centre. Then, at about 8pm, Jo began

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walking home to her flat in Clifton. CCTV showed her browsing in

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Waitrose before moving on to get some cider in this off licence. And

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then buying a pizza from the Tesco Express in Clifton Village. Along

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the way she called her best friend, Rebecca Scott, to arrange to meet

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up on Christmas Eve - and got back to her flat here on Canayge Road

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sometime after 8.30pm. She wasn't seen alive again. Two days later,

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Greg Reardon returned home. When he got into their flat he noticed it

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was untidy. When he rang Jo's mobile phone and heard it ringing

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inside her jacket he knew something was badly wrong and called the

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police. The next day - at the first of many police press conferences -

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Greg and Jo's parents made an emotional appeal. Jo is a vibrant

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young woman and this is completely out of character for her. We need

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your help to find her. Days later, a bizarre development. The police

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appealed to the public about a missing pizza. Jo's parents tried

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to remain hopeful, but on Christmas Day they were shattered by the news

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of her death. We were involved with assisting the police and so, having

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been there most of the day, very cold, I travelled home alone rather

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than going back to the fire station. And you're just left with that

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thought of there's nothing you can do to help anybody. The police had

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to be very careful first of all how they actually moved her body so

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that nothing was missed and then the pathologist had to wait a

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considerable period of time under very controlled circumstances to

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allow her body to defrost so that any signs or markings on her body

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or any material was recovered very carefully. A missing person inquiry

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now became a murder hunt. Blood stains were found on the wall in

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Longwood Lane. A post mortem showed Jo had 43 separate injuries on her

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body and she'd been strangled. Under the intense gaze of the media,

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detectives removed evidence from Jo's flat. Two days after Jo's

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disappearance, officers knocked on the door of her neighbours Vincent

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Tabak and and his girlfriend, Tanya Morson. Tabak said he knew nothing.

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But after a call from Tanya, on holiday in Holland after Christmas,

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detectives flew out to see the couple again. In a hotel room in

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Amsterdam, Tabak reluctantly gave a DNA swab. Then a dramatic

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development - on December 30th, Jo's landlord, Christopher

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Jefferies, was arrested on suspicion of murder. His car was

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taken away for tests. Many of the national newspapers declared an

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innocent Mr Jefferies the number one suspect. But after three days

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the former Clifton College teacher was released on police bail - his

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reputation rubbished by the tabloids. Next the police appealed

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to to the public for help in finding a sock missing from Jo's

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body. During his trial, Tabak claimed that on the night he killed

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Jo he left his ground floor flat to go shopping. As he walked by Jo's

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kitchen window, they caught each other's eye and she invited him in

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and offered him a drink. Joke Yeates and her partner had only

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moved in in the autumn and Vincent Tabak have been out of the country

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for about five weeks working in America so his opportunity to get

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to meet them was very limited. We believe that they probably had not

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met. Tabak claimed he mis-read her friendliness and went to kiss her

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on the lips. She screamed and he put his hand over her mouth. When

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he took his hand away she screamed again. He said he put his hand

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around her throat. 20 seconds or so later, Jo Yeates was dead. CCTV

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showed that after strangling her, he went to Asda, apparently with

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Jo's body in the boot of his car. While there he texted his

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girlfriend to say, "I'm bored and missing you". Later detectives

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found tiny traces of her blood in the boot, and DNA found on Jo's

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body proved he was the killer. heard nothing more following his

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guilty plea to manslaughter until we received a defence case

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statement which very briefly said, "Yes - I was invited in, I killed

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her, I moved her body". But the why and the wherefore was completely

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lacking. The jury were never told that before he killed, the police

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discovered computer records showing that Tabak used pornorgraphic sites

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and may have paid for a prostitute during the work trip to America in

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the weeks before Jo was killed. In the end, it was well trodden

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investigation techniques which paid off. Countless interviews, hours of

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analysing of CCTV footage and forensics which led to the killer.

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Vincent Tabak may have thought he'd got away with murdering Jo Yeates -

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but in the end it was only a matter of time.

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So what do we know about Vincent Tabak? Well he's 33. He was born in

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Holland. He's a well-educated man with a degree in architecture. He

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had a very unusual job - he's a leading expert on how crowds behave

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in buildings. Until his arrest, he was working at the engineering firm

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Buro Happold in Bath. And, of course, he became Jo's neighbour

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when he moved to Clifton. But the Dutchman had a number of secrets

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which the jury was never told about. John Maguire is in Canynge Road now.

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You hear it said so often, it is a truism, that nobody expected such a

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horrible crime to take place in this area. No one expected the

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murderer to be their neighbour, the quite European who lived in that

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basement flat next door to the flat where Jodie lived, next door to the

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flat of Jo, the girl whose name he never even knew.

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This is North Brabant, where Vicent Tabak lived until leaving to work

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in the UK. Motorways cut through tracts of farmland and it seems a

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million miles from the industry and the brash vitality of Amsterdam and

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Rotterdam. To a British visitor, Uden, the town where he grew up,

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appears neat, orderly, quiet. As a boy this was his house - his

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brothers and sisters were all older than him. His neighbour John

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Massoeurs tells me that Vincent's parents were relatively old - he

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was a latecomer, he says, intelligent but withdrawn. He was

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buried inside. What do you mean by that? -- Berry inside. We call that

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introvert. Introverted. And hearing the news from England, what was

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your reaction? I was really surprised because I thought, have

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been sent? He is not able to do that. I could not believe it.

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seems that no one really knew Vincent Tabak. It is only now that

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we are learning that his public persona may have been at his seat.

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-- a deceit. Half an hour down the A50 across Holland's famously flat

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landscape lies the city of Eindhoven. This is where Tabak went

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to university. The city is renowned as the home of the electronics

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giant Philips. For generations it has earned a reputation for

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excellence in engineering, innovation and intelligence. Tabak

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studied architecture here at the University of Technology. He worked

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on several academic reports but no- one here is prepared to talk about

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their friend and former colleague. At the local newspaper I meet Max

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Steenberghe. The story of Tabak's arrest did make front page news

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here, albeit for one day only - a marked contrast to the coverage in

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the UK. It says surprise arrest of former inhabitant of Eindhoven, now

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a suspect in murder. The picture shows the house in Aberdeen Road

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where Tabak was arrested in a friend's flat. But building up a

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picture of the murder suspect in his home country proved diffcult.

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Students who come here come to do that we'll studying so they are

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mainly the quiet type to go home to study their books rather than

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chasing women, and he was no exception to that. We contact is

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his neighbours who did not really remember him other than being a

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nice, quiet them man who shook their hands when he came that there

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live and should it again when he left and that was about it.

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hear the same thing time and time again about the man. People say he

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is quiet, unassuming, intelligent, but the murderer? At least at first,

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many people refused to believe it. When the news of the arrest broke

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here many speculated that he seemed like a convenient fit for the crime.

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But Eindhoven journalist Alice van der Plas tells me opinion changed

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in May when Tabak admitted he had killed Jo. We started watching the

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forums. Usually people rush to judgment when the suspect is

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arrested. They are not very nuanced about it. But here they were kind

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of doubtful. Well, he might be innocent, you never know, this

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might be because of police pressure. But then he admitted to killing her

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and then it changed immediately. But now we know about the secret

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life that Tabak led. He came to Bath to work for the engineering

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firm Buro Happold, and met his girlfriend Tanja Morson on this

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dating website. Throughout the trial he stressed his devotion to

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her but the jury wasn't told about the other sites the prosecution

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said he visited after Jo's death - including pornographic films

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depicting young women being strangled. Also claims that he may

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have contacted prostitutes in the weeks before Jo's death. The judge

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refused to allow the jury to see any of this evidence. Tabak was

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described throughout his trial as calculating and manipulative - but

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when his innermost thoughts, his sexual fantasies, became a reality

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- the cost was a young woman's life. Talking to people here this evening,

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the one thing that seemed to come across a wide and clear, and also

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on social networking site, is the concern for the family of Jo Yeates,

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what they have had to go through in the court process and today some

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satisfaction that this guilty verdict will give them some small

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amount of solace. At the flat tonight there are floral tributes,

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a candle and this handwritten note St justice for Jo, rest in peace.

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So why wasn't the jury told about Vincent Tabak's interest in

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pornography and his believed involvement with prostitutes? I'm

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joined now by the legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg. Can you help us

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on this? The jury did not seem to have the full picture. This sort of

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information, particularly about pornography, would have been highly

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prejudicial. It would have made the jury think he was guilty but it was

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not very probative, did not really prove anything. Plenty of people

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news pornography or even prostitutes without being murderers.

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So the judge would have been worried that if the jury had

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convicted having been given this evidence, then Vincent Tabak would

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have argued before the Court of Appeal that he had not had a fair

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trial I should be cleared on appeal. It was all about intent but how

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difficult is it to prove intent? You can infer intent and obviously

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the jury were well aware that he concealed Joanna Yeates's body in

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his car, drove it away and hid it. If it was all a terrible accident,

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as he claimed, if he did not intend to kill her or cause serious harm,

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you would have thought he would have contacted the police as soon

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as she died. I'm sure the jury were able to infer that he did intend to

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conceal her body and that suggested that he intended to kill her.

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judge has said a minimum tariff of 20 years. How does that rating

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terms of murder sentencing? absolute minimum is 15 years and

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you can get 30 years for murder of with sexual content. But this is 20

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years he will have to spend before he is even considered for his

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release. For days, the disappearance of Jo

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Yeates filled Britain's front pages. First - the baffling disappearance

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- then the clues - captured the interest of journalists and the

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public. But some of the reporting went badly wrong - and some

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newspapers found themselves in court. Scott Ellis reports on how

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the Jo Yeates case may change British journalism. It is a harsh

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truth. Everything about Jo Gates meant her story made headlines for

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months in Britain's mass media -- Joanna Yeates. No one knows that

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better than former Fleet Street editor Roy Greenslade. It is a

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combination of the timing, at Christmas, up the mystery, thirdly

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that she was blonde, white and a woman and, for flick, there was

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there because of class, middle class, an architect. It is very

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unusual for that to happen. The combination of those factors

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ensured that there will be terrific coverage in the papers. It meant

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that Clift and's Canynge Road became a media feeding ground for a

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press pack desperate for new leads every day, every hour. An affluent

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Bristol suburb now under siege. cannot walk down a street without

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somebody asking you questions and having to be escorted to your door

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to get in and out. One President took the snapshots of the media

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storm on her doorstep and her neighbours also recall the barrage

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of reporters. It became -- we became more and more annoyed by

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them. You would say something quite simple and they would say, do you

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mean this? It would make it more sensational about was the case.

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That became quite difficult. So we stopped talking to them. The police

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were also beginning to feel the media pressure, the more so as the

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case drag on. Criminologist David Wilson says the vital drip-feeding

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of information to reporters dried up. An impatient media seemed to

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turn against the police. It is quite clear that Avon and Somerset

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police did not come up to the mark. It is quite clear that they were

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not servicing the needs of the media and that the relationship

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between the media and the police broke down. At one point, the

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police band a national broadcaster from a press conference after they

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criticise the investigation. Ultimately, though, it was the

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media who came off worst in the case. Eight national newspapers had

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to pay libel damages for reports about the landlord Christopher

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Jeffries. Christopher Jeffries is the latest victim of the regular

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witch-hunts and character assassination conducted by the

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worst elements of the British tabloid media. Many of the stories

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published in these newspapers are designed to monster the individual.

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After a case brought by the Attorney-General, Dominic Grieve,

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two were fined under the contempt of Court Act. I think the case will

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be quoted widely in future as the moment that the senior law officer

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of the land decided that the press were getting weight to Liberal in

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the way they were dealing with criminal cases. And I am waiting

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for him now, and expecting him to make a big public statement about

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how he sees contempt law being told Withe by the Attorney General in

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the future. So the British press went too far off. For the residents,

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the media storm moved on an issue Stuart Broad neighbours closer

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together. We had a street party for the Royal Wedding and that is the

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first time we have known there be anything like that. And surely we

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should be knowing each other, knowing our neighbours and being a

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bit more friendly. Ultimately, the meteor storm confirms an ugly truth.

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We were the first nation to use murder stories to sell newspapers

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and in the multimedia age, that fascination with murder continues.

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Jo's family are keen that she is remembered not as a news story, or

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a victim - but as a human being. Her parents say she was a daughter

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to be proud of. Her boyfriend calls her a lovely and genuine partner.

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Amanda Parr has been looking at Jo's legacy.

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Sunny, kind, gifted but modest. A free spirit at home in the fresh

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air. The words of those who knew her say it best. From the very

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first hours of her disappearance, her many friends, and her devoted

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family, went searching. But soon, the fliers and the vigils were

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abandoned. Instead, books of condolence and flowers outside her

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flat and where her body was discovered. Every bunch and

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arrangement graced with words of comfort, expressions of loss, and

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unutterable sadness. After finding ways to say goodbye, friends and

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colleagues are seeking ways to remember. And some have found the

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perfect place. A 180-acre garden near Jo's childhood home - she

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worked here before going on to study landscape architecture. With

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the blessing of David and Teresa Yeates, a quiet corner will be

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redesigned in the shape of a butterfly's wing, flowing with

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grasses and wildflowers. It was full of butterflies earlier on in

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the summer and we just felt this was meant to be. People who do know

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her well feel this epitomises what her personal to was like, very

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organic, natural, and a few people go away feeling the warmth from

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visiting the site. Once it had emerged what had happened, the idea

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emerged of the celebration of her life as a really good way of

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focusing the joyous part of her personality and sending a message

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to her grief-stricken parents that people out there really cared and

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will carry on thinking about her. Jo's old firm, the Building Design

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Partnership, is sponsoring a Landscape Design prize where she

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studied, at the University of Gloucestershire. They're also

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building her a garden. And staff dedicated a bike ride to her - Jo's

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boyfriend Greg took part and helped choose the charities to benefit.

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He's said the memory of Jo will always be with him as he looks

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across Bristol's harbour - she loved it there. One of many places

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Jo's dear friends and family can now celebrate her life - the girl

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they call one of the most lovely and genuine people to have graced

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this earth. You've been watching a special

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edition of BBC Points West on the day Vincent Tabak was jailed for

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life for the murder of Jo Yeates. If you want more on this story

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