In December 2013, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that he would be prosecuted for possessing the images. Of course, in the end, the death of Joanna Yeates and the continuing agony her family must suffer partly because so much remains unclear is down to Vincent Tabak. Jo's neighbour Tabak was a quiet engineer who, at work, specialised in the safe exit of spectators from stadia. The list includes a former Eton College master who killed his 'incredible' mum, as well as a man and woman both convicted of murder after stabbing their victims once in the chest.

The publishers of The Sun and the Daily Mirror subsequently appealed their fines, but the Mirror case was rejected by the Supreme Court on 9 March 2012, whilst The Sun withdrew its appeal.Appearing before the same inquiry on 16 January 2012, the Daily Mirror editor, Richard Wallace, described the newspaper's coverage of Jefferies's arrest as a "black mark" on his editing record. Detectives found nothing and the case was officially never solved – though in 1993, whilst on his deathbed, a Welsh crook named Billy Fisher confessed to murdering Jackson during a robbery that went wrong. Studio resident Seth Jackson and his new venture Arcade Strange have created the world's only mind-controlled beer… https://t.

Tabak was moved from Bristol Prison because of fears for his safety, [99] and was placed under suicide watch at Long Lartin Prison near Evesham. At such times the mind plays tricks, and one starts to believe that perhaps one is a criminal without knowing it and that, as in some Kafkaesque nightmare, guilt has been pre-ordained and the sentence is inescapable.He worked as a "people flow analyst", a role which required him to examine how people move around public spaces such as schools, airports and sports stadia. But he repeatedly said he could not remember how Yeates had come by her 43 injuries – beamed on screens around the court – or even whether she had been frightened.

In his sentencing remarks, the judge agreed with the prosecution's belief that the planned kidnap was for a "sexual purpose", telling Matthews he had "a fixation with having sex with petite teenage girls" and that he believed Hoare had been "persuaded to participate in this fixation.In his defence, Tabak claimed that the killing had not been sexually motivated, [118] [119] and told the court that he had killed Yeates while trying to silence her after she screamed when he tried to kiss her.