Posts Tagged ‘JOANNA Yeates’
Joanna Yeates: The Front-Pages Headlines And No News
JOANNA YEATES: The missing “landscape architect” (seemingly a key fact given that the tabloids never tire of repeating it) is on the front page of the Daily Mirror, a place she has occupied every day of 2011.
Before we get to today’s exclusive, the Sun sums up the case with its front-page headline:
1 months on Jo…cops still in dark
No News – again. Read all about it!
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Posted: 15th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Joanna Yeates: The Sheds, Donald Rumsfeld And Badly Lit Sex
JOANNA YEATES: The marketing, the sheds, the body, the two-minutes silence and the DNA – Anorak rounds-up the news:
Donald Rumsfeld Has News
The Daily Mirror leads with “THE JO FILES”
“4 weeks on…80 cops, £1m spent..what si really going on in Jo manhunt?”
Richard Smith delivers an “exclusive” that carries all the insight of a puppy sat by a pile of poo. Here’s one choice cut:
Periodically, detectives will be asking what do we know and conversely – what don’t we know. Where is the missing information and how can we best get it. It may well be the principle missing pieces are just taking time to pursue.
Murdered At Home
The Daily Star leads with news: “Cops: Jo murdered at home”
The Sun says: “Murder cops seize plans of Jo house”
The police have “seized” plans of a house that you can get by phoning the local council’s planning office, or download online from their website?
They are now inspecting the drawings of the vast Victorian mansion to see if the murderer might have secretly stashed her body somewhere before dumping it.
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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Joanna Yeates’s Entertaining Death: Will The Media’s Secret Lover Destroy The Victim?
JOANNA YEATES: Introducing Rebecca Scott, no lover, saliva but not yet a vote for you to say who killed Our Jo…
Other than TV programmes, the only show the nation watches together is death. And like the X the X Factor and soap, death is orchestrated for our entertainment. The blurring of fact and fiction means The Death of Joanna Yeates now features a cameo from former EastEnders star Barbara Windsor.
The tabloids are orchestrating the grief in the case of Joanna Yeates. They have turned her into Our Jo, a totem of mourn porn. (So used to calling her Jo are the dead woman’s pals the media that the Star forgot her real name and called her “JOANNE” on its front page). In place of clues and fact, the media treats readers to visions of pain and suffering of those the woman left behind.
Everyone is reduced to a shallow cartoon character with a role to play. Hell, even some facts are twisted for added sensation. Joanna Yeates’s body was found by Longwood Lane, Failand.. Well, not any longer. The Sun tells us:
Her body was found three miles away in a ditch next to a quarry…
We’ve zoomed in on the mother’s tears. We’ve met the mystic. We’ve met Chris Jefferies, a man presented to slack-jawed readers as a blue haired potential serial killer paedo – he got The Full Murat – and we met Matthew Wood who says he got a text from Miss Yeates. This we are told was her “last text“.
Now, in a story of her “last call” we get to cast aspersions on the character of Joanna Yeates. (Last acts are the tabloids’ filler. See Jade Goody.)
The Sun, which seeks ownership of the story with a reward poster that features a photo of the victim it never knew in life below its own masthead (Joanna Yeates is now longer the star turn in her own story). The Sun boasts:
MORE than 45 MILLION Brits will see a digital poster of The Sun’s £50,000 reward campaign to track down Jo’s killer. The images will appear on 3,000 screens at sites such as garages and GPs’ surgeries.
Today the Sun leads with:
“Jo was no love cheat.”
Rebecca Scott battled her grief to slam cruel gossip, insisting Jo was “besotted” with Greg Reardon.
“Cruel gossip” you might have heard about until it was on the front pages.
The Daily Mirror’s front page has:
“MY BEST MATE JO”
“She didn’t have secret lover”
Rebecca Scott is here to appeal for information. But we just get to gawp at Rebecca Scott:
Dressed in black and clutching a tissue and a cup of coffee, Rebecca said Jo was madly in love with her boyfriend Greg Reardon, 27.
The Sun has:
“We used to go down to Cornwall. We’d spend a couple of weeks down there camping. We both loved being near the sea.”
Finally, anyone looking for a clue can turn to the Bristol Evening Post and learn that saliva has been found on Joanna Yeates’s body.
Dr Carolyn Morton, a principal lecturer in forensic science at UWE, said: “If they do have a saliva test and it is a pure sample from one person it is absolutely brilliant news.”
If?
“They then just have to check who or find out who the owner is.”
So says the expert. Go on:
“The thing that is important to know is whether the sample is strong or weak. I would like to know if it is a pure sample and where on the body it was found.”
So would we.
“Potentially it is very exciting news but without knowing exactly what they found there are still many ifs and buts.”
Exciting?
“If it is true they have found this sample then I’m really pleased but, as always, there can be no guarantees.”
If?
Ladies and gentlemen, The Death of Joanna Yeates – pull up an armchair…
Posted: 13th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Joanna Yeates: Finally A Celebrity Joins The Story
JOANNA Yeates: the murder of the young, blonde Bristol woman has been missing a vital element to make it really gel with tabloids readers and turn her into this season’s Madeleine McCann. No, not a culprit. The papers have already assassinated Chris Jefferies, given him The Full Murat. This story has been missing a celebrity. So, here’s Barbara Windsor.
The Telegraph has produced as photo of the victim meeting Julian Assange look-alike David Gower when she was at school.
But Babs is so much more relevant to the story. her; what she has to say:
EASTENDERS legend Barbara Windsor last night backed The Sun’s £50,000 reward for helping to catch Jo Yeates’s killer.
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Posted: 12th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Joanna Yeates: Daily Star Renames Her ‘Joanne Yeates’ In Rush To Nail Pizza Killer
JOANNA YEATES: Before the Daily Star’s Typo Of The Year a question: who sent the police a note written on piece of A5 paper in black ink and delivered to the Bristol Ram pub?
The note contained a scrap of pizza wrapping – not from the missing pizza one Joanna Yeates bought before she was killed. It features a bogus address and telephone number. It is not signed.
How do the press interpret this note?
The Sun leads with news of the hoax pizza box letter.
“SICKO SENT PIZZA BOX TO JO PUB”
Sicko!
The Mirror writes:
Sick pranksters sent a hand-written note containing a pizza label to the pub where murdered Joanna Yeates was last seen alive.
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Posted: 11th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Joanna Yeates: Matthew Wood And The Daily Mirror’s Blurry Detectives
JOANNA YEATES: MEET Matthew Wood. He’s the subject of the Sun’s front-page headline:
Murdered Jo sent me last text
You speak to the tabloids at your own risk. Mr Wood is innocent. The Sun wanted to tell us his name, invited readers:
DO you know the pal Jo tried to contact? Call 020 7782 ****.
But before you read about him and his suffering, get a load of this is the Mirror, where expert armchair detective Dai Davies, “Ex-Met Police Detective Chief Superintendent”, has “five theories” as to what happened to Joanna Yeates. Yeah, only five:
The friend: I believe the killer most likely knew Joanna. They could have turned up unexpectedly or arranged to meet – that would explain the two bottles of cider and the pizza.
Workmate Or Friend Of A Friend: It is vital to look at everyone in Bristol with one degree of separation to Jo. It might be a colleague she knew a little or someone who knew her through someone else.
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Joanna Yeates: ID Cards, DNA And A Labour MP’s Pet Cause
JOANNA Yeates: Can the Sunday Express conjure up a headline to compete with its sister organ the Star, the paper that told us:
“I KNOW WHO KILLED JO YATES”?
This sensational “new evidence” was based on the opinion of a psychic named Carol Everett. We learnt:
The psychic investigator insists she “saw” Jo being attacked by two of a group of five men after she rejected their offer of a lift.
No Sleep Til Brooklands considers Everett’s form:
She claimed to have drawn Huntley and Maxine Carr before they were arrested, a claim which seems impressive at first but falls apart when you scroll down to the untouched image, which has ‘Carr’ with beyond-shoulder-length hair, and an utterly generic white male drawing which claims Huntley has blue eyes (he doesn’t), piercings (none visible) and isn’t even sure whether the thing on his head is hair or a scarf.
And you can round up the usual suspcts:
Carol described the killer she saw as of mixed race, 5ft 11in to 6ft tall and in his early 20s. She said the second man was 5ft 8in to 5ft 10in tall with fair hair.
So. To the Express. Here goes:
“JO: DNA TEST FOR ALL MEN”
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Joanna Yeates Becomes Maddie McCann, Baby P And Jade Goody
JOANNA Yeates is getting the Jade Goody treatment on the cover of the Sun. Indeed, the murdered woman is becoming an every woman of the tabloid system.
She’s Madeleine McCann:
The paper has seized ownership of blonde Joanna Yeates with a print-and-stick-up reward poster. Ghouls can stick a picture of the murdered woman in their shop, car or bedroom window. Why should Bristol (27 unsolved murders) have all the entertainment? Stick up a photo of Miss Yeates in Sunderland, Belfast and Poole and get involved with the paper’s orchestrated mourn porn. And don’t forget Liverpool. Sure, Liverpool doesn’t like the Sun since that Hillsborough story, but can it deny that the Sun cares? Time to put personal feelings to one side. Do it for Jo.
The Sun has posted a reward. Any armchair detective able to nail the killer can get £50,000. There was already a reward on offer (£10,000). But the Sun’s reward is higher. Although it might mean that if you claim it your name becomes linked in print to the story. So. Think on.
In order of importance, the message reads from top down: “THE SUN… £50,000… JOANNA YEATES.”
The Football
Bristol City footballers are wearing T-shirts with a photos of Joanna Yeates on. Our Maddie started a trend.
Our Jo
Joanna Yeates is Jo Yeates. At what point do papers think it fitting and proper to use a victim’s shortened name? At what point do readers feel like they really know Jo?
Robert Murat
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Posted: 8th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Joanna Yeates: The Sun Owns ‘Our Jo’ And Debating Chris Jefferies’s Death
JOANNA Yeates: Chris Jefferies might take some money from the papers being assassinated by the media. He might take money from Avon and Somerset Police, who chose not to say that he was “helping us with our enquiries”, preferring to tell us that he was suspected of murder.
Chris Jefferies is on the front page of the Mirror:
“I DIDN’T KILL HER”
This is an “exclusive”. Mr Jefferies has been speaking with “Baptist minister Irving Steggles. He tells us:
“He was quite frustrated but he is not angry – he is not an angry man. He knows he is innocent and I think he is quite upbeat. He wants to rebuild his reputation and he is looking to the future. He was just utterly surprised to be arrested.”
What of his state of being?
He is an emotionally well balanced man – he is psychologically strong. He is a strong person. He has got a good support group. I think he will come through this. He is a man with a very high view of justice.”
Remember when Robert Murat was being spoken of as a possible suicide by a vindictive press? Mr Jefferies’s “survival” is now a topic of tabloid discussion.
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Posted: 7th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Joanna Yeates: Man Hands In Sock To Police
DID you know that Joanna Yeates was killed as she picked up her mail? Did you know that a man has handed in what might well be the missing sock. The Daily Mirror leads with:
“JO MURDERED AS SHE PICKED UP HER POST”
And how did she die? Well the Star knows that. It’s front page tells readers:
“JO MURDERED WITH OWN SOCK”
And “cops fear killer keeping it as sick trophy“.
The Daily Express – “STRANGLED WITH HER SOCK” – at least manages to add the small print that this is a new “theory”.
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Posted: 5th, January 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Joanna Yeates: Is This Her Missing Sock?
JOANNA Yeates: Have you seen the missing sock? The sock was not with Joanna Yeates’s body when it found on Longwood Lane, Failand near Bristol. The presumption is that she had been wearing socks and that they were a matching pair.
Detective Chief Inspector Phil Jones tells media:
“When Jo was found at the site in Longwood Lane her coat and boots were missing. These were later found at her flat in Canynge Road. One of her socks was missing and we have yet to find this. It is described as a light grey sock with lighter detail on the toes, heel and shin.”
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Posted: 5th, January 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Joanna Yeates: The Single Sock Killer And Chris Jefferies Sues
JOANNA Yeates: First a quick word on Chris Jefferies – this year’s Robert Murat: Mr Jefferies has employed lawyers, London-based Stokoe Partnership. The company’s Rhys Mardon has written to the media:
“We are extremely concerned about how our client is being portrayed in the media, and how material of potential relevance to the investigation has been published. His name has been blackened, and his privacy invaded. This may ultimately prejudice his right to, and any prospect of, a fair trial, in the event that he is subsequently charged.”
“Given that the proceedings referred to within the material published are active within the meaning of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, we consider that the publication of the material is a contempt of court and creates a substantial risk that the course of public justice will be seriously impeded or prejudiced.”
You can read just how badly he has been treated by the press here. The murder of Joanna Yeates may well feature in a libel court before it hits any criminal court.
That said, we can now look at today’s barrage of facts in the press:
The Mirror (front page): “JO’S KILLER CAUGHT ON CCTV”
“Two people seen tracking tragic Jo”
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Joanna Yeates: Chris Jefferies Is More Robert Murat Than Serial Killer
JOANNA Yeates gave the holiday season’s media its young, female, attractive blonde victim. Anyone else killed over Christmas does not feature. Her landlord Chris Jefferies gave the media its weird, nutty, oddball figure of speculation. His character has been assassinated and then hung out to dry. Anyone looking to see if the press have learned anything from the voracious feeding frenzy after Madeleine McCann went missing can forget it. Right now Chris Jefferies has more in common with Robert Murat than any killer.
After two days in a police cells, Jefferies has been released on police bail. This tells us one thing: if Avon and Somerset Police have any evidence against him it is not enough to take him to court with.
Greg Reardon, boyfriend of Miss Yeates, says:
“The finger-pointing and character assassination by social and news media of an as yet innocent men has been shameful. It has made me lose a lot of faith in the morality of the British Press and those that spend their time fixed to the internet in this modern age.”
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Posted: 4th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (16)
Joanna Yeates: Sex, Frozen DNA And Rubbish
JOANNA Yeates Anorak’s round-up of the murder of the 25-year-old Bristol woman in the news: DNA; sex; a pale 4×4; and Chris Jefferies was right?
The Sun (front page): “MORE THAN ONE KILLER?”
If not one, how many?
The Mail (front page): “JOANNA: ARE TWO KILLERS AT LARGE?”
Do we have any advance on two killers…?
Daily Star (front page): “CLUE TO JO’S KILLER FROZEN IN THE SNOW”
So. It’s back to one killer… Will anyone give us no killers in the Joanna Yeates news auction?
Daily Express (front page): “JOANNA: was there more than one killer?”
The facts keep on coming in our insightful press who continue to focus on the death of young, attractive blonde woman.
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Posted: 4th, January 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Joanna Yeates: Libel, Chris Jefferies And Thousands Of Student Die
JOANNA Yeates – now the media’s Jo Yeates – was killed – and her killer is at large. The police say women should take “usual” precautions to ensure their safety. Given that Joanna Yeates might have been abducted from her home, this advice seems weak.
Perhaps the usual precautions involve not talking to Chris Jefferies, the man released on police bail? The educated, erudite man billed as a “pillar of society” by one neighbour who actually knew him was monstered by the media until he morphed into something that resembled a blue-haired, child worrying, potential serial killer.
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Posted: 3rd, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (50)
Joanna Yeates: Weird Chris Jefferies’s Candy Floss Hair Made Him Do It?
JOANNA YEATES: SO, what do you remember about suspected murderer Chris Jefferies? Anorak asked that question of a former scholar at Bristol’s Clifton College. “Weirdo,” came the reply. Anything else? “Yeah. They were all weirdos.”
Chris Jefferies was Joanna Yeates’s landlord. Reports said he’d seen her on the night she vanished. He said he could not be certain he had. He’d reportedly been parking his car at the flats and seen three people near the doorway.
Suspicious minds get to work. He was in his car on the night of Miss Yeates’s vanishing? He was in his car about the time she vanished? He has spoken to the police voluntarily? He says his words have been misinterpreted? He is vague?
Armchair detectives are having a field day. And get his for the BBC’s short bio of Chris Jefferies:
Neighbours have said that Mr Jefferies, a bachelor who sports a distinctive mane of straggly white hair, plays a prominent role in his local Neighbourhood Watch group.
Oh, throw away the key. That mane is more akin to remnants of candy floss struck to a pinkish stick. A neighbour of his tell us:
“It is one of the problems. His appearance is unusual. We weren’t good friends. I wouldn’t say he was weird but unusual and the hair is an affectation. He’s a very intelligent man, very sharp.”
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Posted: 30th, December 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (8)
Joanna Yeates Murder: Chris Jefferies, 10,000 Reasons And A Strange Couple
JOANNA YEATES: What Chris Jefferies saw – and what the news reported.
The Sun (front page): “MYSTERY PAIR AT JOE FLAT”
“Landlord saw them with victim”
The landlord is Chris Jefferies.
Neighbours of Jo, 25, yesterday said their landlord saw her leaving home with two strangers just minutes after she returned from drinks with workmates.
Sky News’s Martin Brunt tells us:
“It would appear to be a key bit of evidence. The landlord of the flat Ms Yeates shared with her boyfriend said he was parking his car outside the building, where he also lives. He told police he saw three people leaving her flat and one of them may have been Joanna Yeates.”
Again we see a photo of Chris Jefferies.
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Posted: 30th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (21)
Joanna Yeates: Greg Reardon, Cider And A Stalker
JOANNA YEATES: The cider, the boyfriend and the “pretty” victim. Anorak’s look at the murder of Bristol woman Jo Yeates in the news:
The Sun (front page): “DID JO KNOW HER KILLER?”
Dunno. The Sun says she bough two bottle of cider and a pizza before returning home. One bottle had been opened and half of it drunk. The pizza is missing.
And for those of still wondering why Jo Yeates is front-page news – and the other 27 unsolved murders in the Bristol area alone are not – the mawkish Neil Syson tells us that she was a “pretty landscape architect”.
Syson then delivers this fabulous piece of armchair detective work:
Though few clues have emerged, it appears increasingly likely a stalker or someone Jo knew managed to get into her ground-floor flat in upmarket Clifton, Bristol.
Was it someone she knew? Or was it someone she did not know? Well…
Daily Mirror (front page): “Not A Suspect”
The person not a suspect is Greg Reardon, Joanna’s boyfriend, with whom she lived. To prove how much he should be ignored, the Mirror puts a big photo of his face on its front page.
Detective Chief Inspector Phil Jones tells us:
“No, he’s a witness in this investigation. There are a number of inquiries we are pursuing and at this stage, I am not prepared to speculate whether there are any suspects or what those lines of inquiry might be.”
Daily Express (front page): “Massive dragnet for the Bristol strangler”
Seventy police and support staff are on the case.
Says David Yeates, the murdered woman’s father:
“We are sure that the police know more about what happened than they are telling us, but at the moment we are not questioning them because we feel they are doing their best.”
He adds:
“Last week was the worst of our lives and we are hoping that we will never have to go through anything like this again. Things were made just that little bit less terrible when we saw Jo’s body. It was a relief to see her body again – we just said ‘welcome back’.”
The case in photos:
Posted: 29th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Joanna Yeates’s Murder In Photos: A Blonde Victim Always Sets The New Agenda
JOANNA Yeates was murdered. The 25-year-old Bristol woman was strangled. She died from what police term a “compression of the neck”.
Police believe her body was left on a verge (not a ditch) in Longwood Lane, Failand, North Somerset “several days” before she was found.
The last known movements of Joanna Yeates were on December 17. She went to the Bargain Booze shop. She then bought a pizza in Tesco Express in Clifton. Police believe she went to her home. A receipt from her shopping trip was at the flat. The pizza was not there.
Joanna Yeates’s death is horrific and unexplained. A killer is at large. But why is her death leading the news agenda?
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Posted: 28th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Joanna Yeates: The Verge Becomes The Mail’s Ditch
JOANNA Yeates: Anorak’s look at the stosy of a dead women in the news.
Daily Record: “Police fear tragic Joanna was still alive when she was dumped”
Why “fear” when you can wait for the post-mortem results and know?
POLICE fear tragic Joanna Yeates may have been abducted, knocked out – then dumped and left to freeze to death.
Or as the BBC says:
Police investigating the death of Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates say it is too early to confirm how she died.
So, let’s guess. Here’s a the Daily Mirror:
A source said: “There were no obvious injuries when officers found her body, no stab wounds or big marks. I would not be surprised if the cause of death turns out to be hypothermia.”
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Posted: 28th, December 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Joanna Yeates: The Mail’s Theories, Melanie Hall And 27 Murders
JOANNA Yeates: The photos, the theories, Melanie Hall and Greg Reardon.
We do not know how 25-year-0ld Bristol Joanna Yeates died. But the Mail has a few ideas.
Alongside photos of “distraught parents” David and Teresa Yeates laying “a bouquet of yellow roses with a picture of their daughter on her graduation at the scene” where her body was found and Miss Yeates’ boyfriend Greg Reardon leaving “a bunch of red and yellow carnations at the spot”, we learn:
One theory police are believed to be working on is that Miss Yeates was abducted, knocked unconscious and then died of hypothermia after being pushed out of a car and into the snow.
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Posted: 27th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Joanna Yeates: Armchair Detectives And The Suicide Bridge
JOANNA Yeates: The 25-year-old woman is dead. How the Bristol woman died and why are the subject of much speculation.
The Independent calls the death of a young woman a “tragic mystery”. The Telegraph calls it a “murder mystery”. It is neither. It is a criminal case being investigated by the police. But the press feel a need to get their readers involved. And so the death of Joanna Yeates becomes an episode of Armchair Detective.
Chief narrator is the Mail, which leads with a photo not of Jo Yeates on her own but of her with her boyfriend Greg Reardon. He lived with her and reported her as missing. Beneath the photo the Mail asks a question:
“WAS JO HELD PRISONER FOR HER EIGHT LOST DAYS?”
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Posted: 27th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
