Murder of Joanna Yeates
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Joanna Clare "Jo" Yeates | |
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Born | Joanna Clare Yeates 1985 Hampshire, England, UK[1] |
Disappeared | 17 December 2010 (aged 25) Bristol, England, UK |
Cause of death | Strangulation |
Body discovered | 25 December 2010 Failand, Somerset, UK |
Residence | Clifton, Bristol, UK |
Nationality | British |
Ethnicity | White British |
Alma mater | University of Winchester |
Occupation | Landscape architect[1] |
Employer | Building Design Partnership[2] |
Known for | Murder victim |
Home town | Romsey, Hampshire, UK[3] |
Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm)[4] |
Partner | Greg Reardon |
Parents | David and Teresa Yeates[2] |
Landlord | 65-year-old Christopher Jefferies |
Joanna Clare "Jo" Yeates (1985 – December 2010), was a 25-year-old landscape architect from Hampshire, England, who went missing on 17 December 2010 in Bristol after an evening out with work colleagues. Her body was subsequently discovered on 25 December in Failand, North Somerset, and analysis showed she had died from strangulation. Her landlord was detained for questioning on 30 December, and released on bail two days later without charge.[5]
The murder inquiry, dubbed "Operation Braid", has become one of the largest police investigations in Bristol.[6] The case dominated media coverage in the United Kingdom as Yeates' family initially reached out through social network services and press conferences for assistance from the public.[7] However, the Attorney General for England and Wales later warned the news media that he may invoke the Contempt of Court Act to restrict unfair prejudice prior to any potential trial.[8]
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[edit] Background

Joanna Clare Yeates was born in 1985 in Hampshire, England.[1] She was privately educated at Embley Park near Romsey. Yeates studied landscape design and horticulture at Writtle College and received her Master's degree in garden design at the University of Winchester.[3][9]
In December 2008, Yeates met then-25-year-old Greg Reardon,[9] a fellow landscape architect at the firm Hyland Edgar Driver in Winchester. The couple moved in together in 2009 and settled in the Clifton neighbourhood of Bristol when the company relocated to that area.[1] Yeates had since been working at the Building Design Partnership in Bristol.[9] Her outdoor hobbies included biking, rowing, snowboarding, and surfing.[7]
[edit] Murder case
[edit] Disappearance
At around 8.00 pm on 19 December 2010, Reardon returned home to find Yeates absent from their flat on Canynge Road in Clifton, following a weekend away to visit his half-brother in Sheffield. Reardon had been trying to contact her by phone and text, but did not find it "completely out of character" that she did not respond. While waiting for Yeates to return home, Reardon found that her personal items had been left behind and that their cat appeared to have been neglected. Around midnight, Reardon contacted the police and then Yeates' parents to report her missing.[7][10]
Investigators determined that Yeates had spent the evening of 17 December with colleagues at the Bristol Ram pub on Park Street until around 8.00 pm, to make the 20-minute walk home.[11][12] She was spotted on closed-circuit television (CCTV) at around 8.10 pm in a Waitrose supermarket without purchasing anything.[7] She then phoned her best friend Rebecca Scott at 8.30 pm to arrange a meeting on Christmas Eve.[6] The last known footage of Yeates recorded her buying a pizza from a Tesco Express that evening at around 8.40 pm.[13] She had also picked up two small bottles of cider at a Bargain Booze nearby.[3]
[edit] Search and public appeal



Reardon and Yeates' friends set up a website and used social network services to help look for her.[9][7] On 21 December, Yeates' parents and Reardon made a public appeal through a police press conference for her safe return.[14] In another press conference broadcast live on 23 December via Sky News and BBC News, Yeates' father David commented on her disappearance: "I think she was abducted after getting home to her flat ... I have no idea of the circumstances of the abduction because of what was left behind ... I feel sure she would not have gone out by herself leaving all these things behind and she was taken away somewhere".[15] Her keys, mobile phone, purse and coat had been left behind at her flat.[16] Detectives retrieved a receipt for the pizza, but found no sign of the pizza itself nor its packaging.[17] Both bottles of cider were found in the flat, one of them partially consumed.[3] As there was no evidence of forced entry or a struggle,[16] investigators are pursuing the scenario that Yeates may have known her abductor.[17]
[edit] Discovery of body
On 25 December, a fully-clothed body was found by a couple walking their dogs along Longwood Lane near a golf course and next to the entrance of a quarry in Failand, approximately three miles from her home.[3][6][18] The body was identified by police as that of Yeates.[2] Reardon and the Yeates family visited the site of the discovery on 27 December.[11] David Yeates said that the family "had been told to prepare for the worst" and expressed relief that his daughter's body had been recovered.[19] Grief counseling has been offered to Yeates' co-workers to help them cope with her death.[20] Funeral arrangements may be affected as investigators need to retain the body "for a while".[6]
[edit] Investigation
The investigation, called "Operation Braid",[23] comprises 80 detectives and civilian staff under the direction of Detective Chief Inspector Phil Jones. It has become one of the largest police operations in the history of the jurisdiction. [24] DCI Jones is urging the public to come forward with any information to help catch the killer, especially from potential witnesses who were in the vicinity of Longwood Lane in Failand during Yeates' disappearance.[22] He stated that the investigation is seeking the driver of a "light-coloured 4x4 vehicle" for questioning.[25]
Jones said that officers have been "inundated with thousands of calls" and are "exhausting every lead and avenue that we are provided with."[26] Police are examining over 100 hours of surveillance footage along with 293 tonnes of rubbish seized from the area around Yeates' flat.[27] Refuse collection has been suspended in that part of Clifton since 23 December.[28] Crime Stoppers has offered a £10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her murderer.[29] Authorities have advised residents to take precautions and warned local women not to walk alone after dark.[30]
I fear that whoever has done this will never hand themselves in, but we live in hope that the police will catch who is responsible.—David Yeates, December 2010[6]
Police are drawing on resources from other forces. On Fri 7th Jan 2011 Correspondant Chris Brodie stated on BBC Points West that Wiltshire Police would send Detectives to help in the Joanna Yeates case.
[edit] Initial enquiries

Detectives from the Avon and Somerset Constabulary immediately treated the death of Joanna Yeates as "suspicious",[24] and have been investigating similarities with the unsolved cases of Glenis Carruthers, Melanie Hall and Claudia Lawrence.[25][26][27][28] The possibility of such connections have since been downplayed by authorities.[22] The police have been focusing on surveillance video from Clifton Suspension Bridge as it is the most direct route across the River Avon between the crime scene and where Yeates was last seen alive.[24] Investigators were hoping to determine whether Yeates had walked or if she had been driven across the bridge over Avon Gorge.[11]
A post-mortem examination began on 26 December, though results were delayed due to the frozen condition of the body.[29] Police initially feared that Yeates froze to death in the winter outdoors as her body showed no visible signs of injury.[30] However, investigators announced on 28 December that the case had become a murder inquiry as the coroner determined that Yeates had died by strangulation.[31] The post-mortem also indicated that she had died "several days before being discovered" on 25 December.[32] The police searched Reardon's laptop computer and mobile phone as part of standard procedure.[32] Reardon has since been ruled out as a suspect and is being treated as a witness.[31]
A young woman attending a party at a neighbouring home on Canynge Road recalled hearing two loud screams shortly after 9.00 pm from the direction of Yeates' flat. The police have been contacting the men from the party to gather DNA samples.[33] Officers removed the front door to Yeates' flat to check for clothing fibres and DNA evidence.[23][34] Investigators were examining the possibility that the perpetrator was already inside the flat when Yeates returned home.[35]
[edit] Arrest
On 29 December Yeates' landlord, 65-year-old Christopher Jefferies, reportedly told detectives that he remembered seeing three people leave the flat while parking his car shortly after 9.00 pm on 17 December, though he later denied media reports that he thought one of the people was Yeates.[36] Jefferies stated: "It is a serious distortion of what I said to the police and I have no further comment to make as that, no doubt, will be distorted ... I made some comment which was very, very, very much vaguer than that."[37]
Jefferies was arrested shortly after 7.00 am on 30 December 2010 on suspicion of her murder. Jefferies, who lives in a flat above hers in the same building, is a retired English teacher from Clifton College and a leader of the local neighbourhood watch. He was taken to a local police station for questioning while forensic investigators inspected his flat.[37][38] Detectives had been observing Jefferies for several days before his arrest;[39] he had allegedly been aware that Yeates was alone as he helped jump start Reardon's car for his weekend visit to Sheffield.[40] The police followed Jefferies' previous statements as a line of inquiry. Investigators towed away two cars that morning for examination:[41] Jefferies' silver Chrysler Neon and a grey Volvo S40 parked on his driveway.[39][42]
On 31 December, detectives spent several hours interviewing tenants at a house next door, including owner Peter Stanley, who ran the neighbourhood watch jointly with Jefferies.[35] Former tenants stated that Jefferies kept an extra set of keys and had entered their flats unannounced in the past.[43] Stanley later dropped off his burgundy 1995 BMW 5 Series at the police station,[35] as it had been used by Jefferies to help jump start Reardon's car.[28] Authorities were granted a 12-hour extension on 31 December for additional interrogation of Jefferies,[8] but he was released on bail the following day.[5] Stanley's BMW was also returned.[22]
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Further enquiries
On 4 January 2011, a clinical forensic psychologist, who had previously been involved as a criminal profiler in other high profile murder cases, joined the investigation to help narrow down the number of potential suspects. Senior officers from the investigation had asked for assistance from the National Policing Improvement Agency, a centre which provides expertise for difficult cases.[54] Jones stated that his officers are checking through 1,300 tips and pieces of information from the public and have established over 1,000 lines of inquiry, 239 of them considered "high priority".[24][55] A local security camera was found to have captured footage of Yeates walking home on 17 December 2010 at around 8.45 pm after shopping at Tesco Express. Two unidentified people, who have become subjects of interest to the police, are seen in the video following about 27 seconds behind her.[56]
I can assure you, we are determined to solve this crime and bring Jo's killers to justice. No stone will be left unturned.—Detective Chief Inspector Phil Jones, January 2011[55]
On 5 January 2011, Detective Chief Inspector Jones announced that Yeates was missing one of her socks when she was found dead and it was not found at the crime scene nor in her home. Jones stated that the sock was a long, ski-style size five.[57] Psychologist Glenn Wilson, who is not associated with the police investigation, commented that the killer might have used the sock to strangle Yeates or kept it as a trophy.[58] One source said the sock had been handed to police,[59] A man believed to be in his 70s approached a female Police Community Support Officer at 44 Canynge Road and held up a dark sports-style sock. Then after being quizzed by police, he refused to comment on the sock and told reporters he had been told not to say anything by police officers.
Police launched a national advertising campaign to appeal for witnesses through Facebook,[60] which had been viewed nearly 250,000 times since 4 January 2011. CCTV footage of Yeates had been viewed 120,000 times on YouTube.[58] The Sun is offering a £50,000 reward to "bring a longed-for breakthrough" in the case.[61]
On the 9 January 2011 Bristol East Labour MP Kerry McCarthy endorsed the idea of a public DNA screening process if the police would find it useful. The Avon and Somerset Police force were previously responsible for the mass DNA screening conducted for the 1995 investigation into the disappearance of then 18-year-old Louise Smith.[62] Mrs McCarthy suggested that the screening process should be extended beyond Clifton to the wider Bristol area.[62]
Media coverage
Jo's life was cut short tragically but the finger-pointing and character assassination by social and news media of as yet innocent men has been shameful.
Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General for England and Wales, stated on 31 December 2010, that he was considering taking action under the Contempt of Court Act to remind the media of their obligation not to prejudice a possible future trial. Concerns had been raised that the media were focusing on Jefferies' character traits in an attempt to present him as someone likely to have committed the murder, even though he had yet not been charged with any crime.[8]
Criminology professor David Wilson commented on the resonance of the murder case with the national news media: "The British public loves a whodunnit ... It's a particularly British thing. We were the first nation to use murder stories to sell newspapers and that culture is more ingrained here than elsewhere." Wilson called Yeates, a white female professional, an "ideal victim" for the media.[45]
Memorials
Associate vicar Dan Clark led a memorial service for Yeates at Christ Church in Clifton on 2 January 2011.[53] Her boyfriend, Reardon, started a charity website in Yeates' memory to raise funds on behalf of families of missing people.[67] Yeates' employers, Building Design Partnership, is discussing how to commemorate her as she had been last working on the landscaping of a new hospital in Southmead, Bristol.[68]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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[edit]External links
- Help Find Jo
- Jo Yeates at the Building Design Partnership
- Full statement by Jo Yeates' boyfriend at the Southern Daily Echo
- Full statement by Jo Yeates' family at the Southern Daily Echo
- The death of Joanna Yeates / Operation Braid at the Avon and Somerset Constabulary
- JOANNA YEATES: DNA TEST FOR ALL MEN Daily Express
- Police handed sock outside murdered Jo Yeates’ Bristol flat