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new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:50 pm
by the grumps
a very good evening to a rather solomn column ( excuse the pun)
a vile crime was committed in bristol on christmas day of all days and has recieved a large media coverage i will say no more and let you read this chilling article first.
A CHILLING letter with a torn-off piece of pizza box was sent to the pub where murdered Jo Yeates had her last drink with pals.
The scrawled note mentioned Jo's name and was sent soon after her body was found.
Jo bought a Tesco Finest pizza on her way home the night she disappeared, but it is not known if the piece of box sent to the pub was from that pizza. No trace of Jo's pizza or its packaging has been found.
Sicko sent pizza box to Jo Yeates pub just after her body was found | The Sun |News
AAG
someone somewhere knows who killed jo yeates the murderer himself may have a guilty concience hence the note.
its just a matter of time before the net closes in on jo,s killer
even the sun has offered 50k to nail this murderer and if that isnt an incentive i dont know what is.
but what then he,ll probably get sent to parkhurst or dartmoor nick for the rest of his life isnt it time for a re vote on the death sentence ?
murder is becoming all too common and life is treated as cheap as courts hand out paltry sentences.
good luck and i hope the police nail this murdering scumbag shortly
new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:38 am
by spot
I'm rather more interested in the character assassination in tabloid reports like, for example,
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... spect.html
If you consider that Mr Jefferies was hounded into hiding by this and other tabloid articles, that the content of the article is underhand, furtively suggestive and altogether vile, and that someone entirely different has since been charged with the murder, do you not feel that relying on such papers for "news" is a risky proposition?
Or do you think Mr Jefferies got everything he deserved and that the paper's blameless?
new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:36 am
by flopstock
spot;1351982 wrote: I'm rather more interested in the character assassination in tabloid reports like, for example, ‘The strange Mr Jefferies’ is Joanna Yeates murder suspect | The Sun |News
If you consider that Mr Jefferies was hounded into hiding by this and other tabloid articles, that the content of the article is underhand, furtively suggestive and altogether vile, and that someone entirely different has since been charged with the murder, do you not feel that relying on such papers for "news" is a risky proposition?
Or do you think Mr Jefferies got everything he deserved and that the paper's blameless?
So, who has been charged with the murder?
new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:51 am
by spot
flopstock;1351988 wrote: So, who has been charged with the murder?
Someone who isn't Mr Jefferies, despite the vile innuendo in those articles. I can't imagine the chap's name matters to the thread.
new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:55 am
by flopstock
spot;1351992 wrote: Someone who isn't Mr Jefferies, despite the vile innuendo in those articles. I can't imagine the chap's name matters to the thread.
Well, IMO it does if he/she is someone who contributed to the vile innuendo in those articles.
new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:22 am
by spot
flopstock;1351994 wrote: Well, IMO it does if he/she is someone who contributed to the vile innuendo in those articles.
Scarcely likely, that. The vile innuendo is the stock in trade of the tabloid journalist, may his bits drop off painfully. Nobody else invents it, just the journalists, something they're skilled at building from nowhere about anyone at all regardless of guilt. I despise them almost as much as I despise the investigating officer who chooses to lighten the pressure by arresting an innocent bystander, a step I reckon investigating officers adopt as a matter of routine. Both the officer and the journalist are banal manifestations of irresponsible unchecked power.
new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:52 am
by Snowfire
Trial by newspaper seems to be stock in trade for the tabloids. They ought to be made to compensate Mr Jeffries handsomely. Slightly eccentric he may be but to paint the picture of him that they did and to post his photograph on as may available pages, was a disgrace. His life may never be the same
new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 1:38 am
by spot
Snowfire;1352002 wrote: Trial by newspaper seems to be stock in trade for the tabloids. They ought to be made to compensate Mr Jeffries handsomely.
They now have the opportunity to do so under compulsion, since they seem not to have volunteered. A quarter million for each slimy story which used a photo ought to put things right. I'd add a flogging for every editor whose paper ran the innuendo, were I running the country.Christopher Jefferies is suing papers including the Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star.
Mr Jefferies, from Bristol, was the subject of media scrutiny after he was arrested last December on suspicion of murder. He was released without charge. None of the papers contacted by the BBC has so far commented on the action.
BBC News - Jo Yeates' landlord Christopher Jefferies to sue papers
new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:21 pm
by Bryn Mawr
spot;1358002 wrote: They now have the opportunity to do so under compulsion, since they seem not to have volunteered. A quarter million for each slimy story which used a photo ought to put things right. I'd add a flogging for every editor whose paper ran the innuendo, were I running the country.Christopher Jefferies is suing papers including the Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star.
Mr Jefferies, from Bristol, was the subject of media scrutiny after he was arrested last December on suspicion of murder. He was released without charge. None of the papers contacted by the BBC has so far commented on the action.
BBC News - Jo Yeates' landlord Christopher Jefferies to sue papers
I remember several people being shocked when it turned out not to have been him - the reportage had been so "they've got the b'tard" that they were convinced the evidence was stacked against him.
People forget that "arrested" is a long way from "charged" and even further from "guilty".
Re: new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 2:36 pm
by spot
Snowfire wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:52 am
Trial by newspaper seems to be stock in trade for the tabloids. They ought to be made to compensate Mr Jeffries handsomely. Slightly eccentric he may be but to paint the picture of him that they did and to post his photograph on as may available pages, was a disgrace. His life may never be the same
And, fourteen years later, finally,
Rupert Murdoch’s news publisher in the UK agreed to pay “substantial damages” to a man wrongly arrested for a high-profile murder, after apologising for the invasion of his privacy.
Christopher Jefferies, a retired schoolteacher and landlord from Bristol, was wrongfully arrested in 2010 for the murder of Joanna Yeates, a landscape architect.
He took legal action against News Group Newspapers (NGN), which publishes the Sun, in 2022 over alleged voicemail interception. NGN also published the News of the World, which was closed after the phone-hacking scandal.
It has now emerged in court that Jefferies and NGN settled a claim at the high court in November 2024. News UK, the parent company of NGN, said the settlement was made on the basis of the invasion of Jefferies’ privacy by the News of the World.
NGN agreed to pay damages, but the court was told it did so with “no admission of liability in relation to the claimant’s allegations of voicemail interception and/or other unlawful information gathering at the Sun”.
Lurid stories about Jefferies and his life regularly appeared in the press after it emerged that Yeates, who disappeared in December 2010, had been his tenant. She was later found dead.
Jefferies was initially arrested by police and held in custody for three days. However, he was found to have no connection to the crime. Vincent Tabak, a Dutch engineer who had lived in the UK since 2007, was eventually jailed for a minimum of 20 years after being found guilty of the murder.
Jefferies claimed that NGN had published private information about his life throughout most of 2011. The court was told the articles relating to him “had a damaging and long-lasting effect on him and his private life, including his standing in the community and to his relationships with some friends”.
Mariyam Kamil, a Matrix Chambers barrister for NGN, said: “The defendant is here today, through me, to offer its apologies to Mr Jefferies for the distress caused to him by the invasion of his privacy by individuals working for or on behalf of the News of the World.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... al-damages