Vincent Tabak did his utmost to persuade a jury he had been a bashful, naive bachelor whom strangled Joanna Yeates in an instant of panic to prevent her screaming following a clumsy pass.

By Martin Evans, John Bingham and Gordon Rayner

He previously only had one girlfriend, he told them, and had been therefore intimately inexperienced which he utilized an internet agency that is dating begin that relationship.

However in truth Tabak ended up being enthusiastic about violent pornography and prostitutes. He fantasised about females being choked during intercourse.

Whenever police seized his computer systems they found a number of degrading images and sadomasochistic movies with sexually explicit images of a lady bearing a resemblance that is striking Miss Yeates.

A girl with the same short blonde hairstyle as Miss Yeates is shown on her back, with a pink T-shirt pulled up to expose one of her breasts in one image.

Detectives whom discovered the image on Tabak’s drive that is hard a group of similarities using the means Miss Yeates’s frozen body ended up being found, along with her pink top additionally pulled up to reveal her upper body.

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Prosecutors think that Tabak killed Miss Yeates to fulfill his depraved intimate desires, because he desired to go from “observer to perpetrator”.

The everyday Telegraph also can reveal that Tabak, whom stated to stay a loving, monogamous relationship with Tanja Morson, utilized business trips offshore to find prostitutes on the web.

Tabak’s defence group insisted skip Yeates’s murder was at no method sexually motivated, nevertheless the disclosures about their individual life, that have been held through the jury at Bristol Crown Court, paint his appalling crime in a various light.

The trial judge, Mr Justice Field, blocked the prosecution’s tries to introduce proof of Tabak’s violent intimate desires, governing that they didn’t add up to proof of any intent that is prior murder Miss Yeates. (more…)