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