Why tabak killed joanna

Vincent Tabak was jailed for life for Jo Yeates' murder in Jo Yeates' body was found dumped in a country lane near Bristol on Christmas Day in Related Topics. Published 31 October Published 29 October He knew that Miss Yeates was in pain and struggling to breathe. Despite that, Vincent Tabak continued to hold and squeeze her neck to kill her.

The court heard that following the murder, Tabak placed Joanna's body in the boot of his car and drove to Asda where he was filmed on CCTV buying beer, crisps and rock salt. While sentencing Vincent Tabak the judge, Mr Justice Field, called the murder a "dreadful, evil act", and deemed the defendant "very dangerous", "thoroughly deceitful, dishonest and manipulative".

David and Teresa Yeates did not attend court on the day of the verdict, after finding the anticipation too difficult to endure. They released a statement afterwards, however, saying: "The best we can hope for him is that he spends the rest of his life incarcerated, where his life is a living hell being the recipient of all the evils, deprivations and degradations that his situation can provide.

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After she died, the prosecution told the court how Tabak had put her body in the boot of his car and drove to a country road just outside Bristol, where he left her body on a verge near a quarry. It was suggested he also may have stopped off at an Asda supermarket with her body in the car, according to reports.

Tabak was found guilty of murder by the jury, with a majority and given a life sentence, to serve a minimum of 20 years. It later emerged that Tabak had accessed violent pornography, including one image which slightly resembled Yeates — though this information was not shared with jurors during the trial. Log In. Contact us Sign up for newsletters. Log In Register now My account.

On Christmas Eve, Detective Constable Karen Thomas, a member of the police's major crime investigation team, spoke to Tabak by telephone about his movements on the night of Yeates's disappearance.

He told her he was in all evening before driving in the early hours of the morning to pick up Morson after a work party. He was able to say he did not know Yeates. She and Reardon moved in at the start of October and he left for a business trip in California on 6 November, only returning on 11 December, six days before the killing.

They were in effect strangers. On Christmas morning, at about the time Tabak and Morson — who remained ignorant of her boyfriend's crime — were opening their gifts, Yeates's body was found by a dog walker, covered in leaves and a pile of snow next to a quarry wall at Longwood Lane, Failand, three miles from Clifton.

It looked as if the killer had tried to heave the body over the wall. Had he succeeded Yeates could still be a missing person. The media interest became a frenzy. One tabloid suggested Yeates may have been held captive for several days before she was killed.

Another theory was that she may have been dumped at the scene alive and died of hypothermia. The public was fascinated by the details. What had happened to the pizza, which was never found? Why had she bought two bottles of cider? Was she meeting someone?

Was the killer waiting for her at the flat? Why was there no sign of a break-in? Only Tabak knew the truth and he was not telling. On 28 December he and Morson drove via Eurotunnel to the Netherlands where they were to spend new year with Tabak's family. There was no escape from the Yeates story in the Netherlands. On 30 December, Tabak and Morson watched a television news report of the arrest of Joanna Yeates's landlord, the former public school teacher Christopher Jefferies, over the killing.

At this point Tabak made a huge mistake. Spotting a chance to frame Jefferies, he contacted Avon and Somerset police and suggested the landlord had been out and about in his car on the night of Yeates's death.