Joanna Yeates and the case of the Missing Tesco Pizza

The court process has commenced and its up to the police and the prosecution to present their case in court, so until he is found guilty (or innocent), we have to assume Mr Tabak is innocent.

Its not very often we get a missing person or a murder story to take the main news for several weeks, but I suppose it was because it was Christmas, Jo Yeates' disappearance was the talk for many of us, with friends and families, for many hours as we all tried to work out who done it and why.

What happened to the pizza box?

Tesco's certainly got plenty of free advertising for their pizzas.

As regards to THE pizza, we still havent been told.

Last week, the police were even calling for help from amateur armchair detectives, hence the photo of my favourite Miss Marple, the formidable Margaret Rutherford. What a woman!

My ex-wife and I spent many hours I guess, over the Christmas/New Year period, trying to work this out as we like nothing more than the likes of Midsummer Murders, Marple and many of the other murder dramas on TV.

We all know that most murders are done by someone close to the person, such as a partner, family member, or friend. As Jo was strangled, it meant she was murdered by someone close to her.

We had the arrest of her landlord, Chris Jefferies and we then saw several days of his character being almost destroyed by the media over the Christmas period and it now would seem he was not involved.

Mr Jefferies is now supposedly taking legal action against the police and the media. I would guess that the police would argue that they have the duty to arrest and question people, if they have good reason to and that they were not responsible for what was said about him by the media, so maybe the media may be on more dodgy ground.

Once Mr Tabak was arrested, I was surprised to see the TV cameras had gone to his home town in Holland. Why? He was at that time, arrested and being questioned! OK, he has since been charged with Jo's murder, but does this give the media the right to pry into the life of a suspect? He could still be found innocent.

BUT the most surprising thing in my view was that the person who has been arrested and charged, was Jo's next door neighbour. The police must have spent many thousands of man and woman hours on trying to find her abductor and then her murderer and there he was NEXT DOOR.

If they get a prosecution and find that Tabak did murder Jo, I wonder if an inquiry will be held to find out why it took them so long. I hope they have a good reason.

I have my views as to why Jo was possibly murdered by Tabak (if he did), but will keep my silence and see if it comes out at the trial.

It was very sad for Jo's family, boyfriend, friends and work colleagues. I would guess many would think the boyfriend did it, though Police soon eliminated him as a suspect.

I hope that this murder case can soon be put to rest and the family can grieve at the loss of her young life. And us amateur detectives can get back to watching Miss Marple, Midsomer Murders, Lewis, Wallender etc.....

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