Screams from the general direction of Joanna's flat at nine o'clock have been reported by two independent witnesses. If these were the sounds of her murder, and not just a scene from a film being shown on television at the time, then we can rule out a sex game gone wrong. (Not to mention there are no reports of her infidelity.)

There were no signs of forced entry to the flat, suggesting Joanna opened the door to her killer. This would seem to rule out her finding the killer already in the flat (else how did he get in?) engaged in burglary or knicker-sniffing.

The police were too early hung up on the landlord, so that proper investigation and consideration of alternatives was delayed until after DNA evidence had cleared him. As the Daily Telegraph complains:

The clue of the missing sock, which could still be in the murderer's possession, was withheld until Wednesday, despite its obvious significance, and CCTV footage from privately owned cameras on Miss Yeates's street, which could have held images of the killer, have been lost because delays in asking for them meant they were automatically deleted.

sorry missed a bit of article

o, 25, is understood to have sent the text in between leaving a pub at 8pm and buying cider at an off-licence at 8.20pm on December 17.

It is believed the friend was asleep, and by the time he saw the text he thought it was too late to reply. It is understood police interviewed him as a matter of routine because Jo's mobile showed she tried to reach him.

The text was uncovered as part of a huge sweep of mobile phone and computer records.

Police - who believe Jo was murdered after arriving back at her flat in Clifton, Bristol - declined to comment on the text.

Any ambitious police officers should be polishing up their CVs in readiness to apply for the no doubt soon to be vacant post of Head of the Bristol Murder Squad imo.

That's a nasty piece of work from The Sun, full of insinuations from a 'source'.

happy couple just moved into her dream flat coming up to xmas after a few drinks ,phones an ex male friend on the off chance while walking up the road,who happens to be asleep at 8 o clock on a fri evening.
its either a complete load of rollocks from the sun
sheds a new light on the character of jo
and opens up a new suspect,was he asleep because he,d been out drinking an d bumped into jo,earlier and relived old times,flirted a bit etc,so she thinks i no ,empty cold flat ,boyfriend away, he lives nearby i,ll give him a ring
if its true he must be a runner

"A bit on the quiet"

Agree the knuckle draging sun readers reading that sun piece will be thinking exactly what the sun want them to think.

Shocking really the press garbage.

The text was uncovered as part of a huge sweep of mobile phone and computer records.

You put the mobile numbers and date times you want into the application and it spews out the data. Takes about 2 mins.

Indeed.

From the DM article linked to above

"Joanna spoke her final words to her father a fortnight before Christmas, phoning to ask what he would like as a gift. A hooded training top for the gym would do nicely, he told her.

She last saw her mother around the same time, when Mrs Yeates travelled to Bristol to watch filming of the TV show Deal Or No Deal, and stayed at the Clifton flat."

Maybe not as close to her family as the plod would like us to believe ?

Yes, no idea what you're suggesting Brendan.

New friends required then A_T

Yes, absolutely.

Right, it just read to me as if you were suggesting she wasn't close to her family.

What are you suggesting about Claudia Lawrence?

leaves work colleagues at the pub.  decides to head off home.  10 minutes later thought 1, get a pizza.  10 minutes later thought 2, bollocks I'm on my own I'll get some cider.  once home, bored, on her own, boyfriend away for the weekend, arranges to meet someone (possibly the next day?). 

anyway, why haven't they told us if she has eaten the pizza, or whether she was found wearing the same clothes as in the cctv pictures?   Come on police, how is chit-chat supposed to solve this without all the information?

The text would have come to light within 1 or 2 days of being reported missing, why has it been leaked now?

Considering there are very few known and published facts about Joanna's movements on the evening of Friday 17th December, but these include the timings that she was in the shops and what she bought I find it pathetic, lazy journalism to even manage to get these wrong.

As soon as I got to the bit in the Daily Mail about the half-litre bottles of cider I stopped reading and when the Sun says she was buying cider at 8.20 pm then forget it.... it was between 8.24 and 8.29 aqnd minutes are critical when tracing people's final steps.

If they can't get known facts right then what does that say about their speculation and innuendo?

Also, if the police were in Longwood Lane last night, Friday, trying to trace people who might have driven by when Joanna's body was dumped there, then, as they have never established or stated that she was dumped there ON the Friday night, I presume they are still there questioning drivers and will still be there up until next Saturday..... from what they have said the body could have been dumped there at any time during the missing week..... if they aren't still there then can we infer that her body was drfinitely dumped there on the Friday night?

Piece in Daily Express today from a profiler,most certainly killed in flat,by a young man,very carefully planned and deff not random,highly unlikely strangled with sock,the dumping of the body was to buy time and distance himself from the crime,deff not done by a random prowler,missing sock not taken as a trophy he would have taken something more intimate,pizza box if found likely to be of limited value,theres only one person who fits most of these stats

Think we can infer that plod are scrambling and looking for exit with least criticism imo

Plenty of conflicting reports in the press. In one a ligature was used in another it was done by hand. A dna sample was found on the body yet today i am reading no dna sample has been found. The press are making it up as they go along and not doing the investigators any favours.

i'd be checking all the rug shops. If i had a dead body to move, 100% going to roll it up in a rug or carpet, only way to conceal it.