Tabak guilty of Jo Yeates murder

28 October 2011 Last updated at 10:22 ET

Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak has been found guilty of the murder of Bristol landscape architect Jo Yeates.

Miss Yeates, 25, was strangled in her Clifton flat after inviting her 33-year-old neighbour in for drinks on 17 December last year, Bristol Crown Court heard.

The jury came to a majority decision of 10-2 after failing to reach a unanimous verdict.

Tabak pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied Miss Yeates’s murder.

Following the verdict, it can be revealed that in the days after he strangled Miss Yeates Tabak viewed internet pornography depicting violence against women.

On computers recovered from his flat, police found images of men having sex while holding their hands around the neck of a woman and photos of women tied up in the boot of a car.

Tabak left Miss Yeates’s body on the verge of a country road near Bristol. She was found on Christmas Day.

The killing happened after Miss Yeates made a “flirty comment”, Tabak claimed at Bristol Crown Court.

“We were standing close to each other, she invited me in for a drink. She made a flirty comment. I thought she was flirtatious,” he said.

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