On the night after the office party didn't Jo text a friend to come over. She clearly was looking for some company to send a Friday night with. Maybe it was her going over to him next door, and he saw it as a come one and took advantage.

very likely the scenario.

After his arrest, detectives tried to ­pinpoint his movements between ­December 17 – the day Jo disappeared – and ­December 19, when the 6ft 4ins beanpole is thought to have travelled to Holland for the festive period. It has emerged that on the night Jo went missing, Tabak was alone while his girlfriend Tanja ­Morson, 34, ­attended a work Christmas party with colleagues. Police have studying calls and texts made on his mobile phone throughout the Christmas season.

A police source said: ­“Detectives have been painstakingly ­piecing ­together his movements.”

TD, his relatives quoted in the press today say he made no mention of the fact that the girl next door to him in the UK has mysteriously disappeared.

More likely to have returned shoes imo.

how many women do you no who,d leave a half finished bottle of cider and their mobile phone behind, bearing in mind plod have continualy said she died in the flat and the parents new the flat had been enterd

They haven't continually said she died in her flat, they have said they were convinced she returned to the flat.

Maybe at his, she'd kicked her shoes (or were they boots?) off or taken them off at the door.  Once she was dead and the body needed to be disposed of, it may have been difficult to deal with putting footwear back on. 

Easier to return items left behind to her flat than dispose of them?

so if they wernt convinced she died in her flat but were convinced she had returned home ,they left the flat next door untouched for 5 weeks, even though they had cctv footage of a car going over the bridge on the  day after for 3 weeks

the police will fit anybody up to close a case

"Whilst it may have been all over the newspapers in the UK it doesn't mean there was any great coverage of the story in Holland."

Bit unusual if he never mentioned it at all (?) 
Goes back home for Christmas.....girl in his block of flats back home goes missing....
you'd think at some point he would have mentioned it. 

His brother said his behaviour was normal. "He's a lovely guy, mild-mannered and very friendly."

she was reported missing on the 19th and he left on the 19th

I'm a "lovely guy, mild-mannered and very friendly". And I recall an occasion many years ago when unbelievably, a female rejected my advances. I thought it very strange at the time, but at no stage did I feel any desire to strangle her.

There's a great deal about all this which still doesn't make much sense.

If a girl went missing or killed in Holland would you expect to hear about it in this country's press. There you go.

You've leapt to a gross assumption there Flea. My 'many'moods' are all positive ones.

And I have umpteen witnesses that night in a bar who saw me make a complete tit of myself by turning round a bit sharpish and sending a tray of drinks flying.

Incidentally, the case has been quite extensively reported in the media here, so maybe it has in other European countries too?

like over here, we only hear about the death of a porn star, not about any murders or missing girls in Germany for example

Maybe it's just because there's quite a lot of Britishers here. Having said that, UK stories are pretty rare here in the local media.

I agree Aussi. as I wrote above, There's a great deal about all this which still doesn't make much sense.

We don't have the full picture by any means.

apparently police have CCTV pic of him crossing bridge in car--and his earlier statement of where he was doesnt match up.

what puzzles me is--if he was a suspect from beginning-why did police hint loudly about the landlord?

In the Ipswich murders, the first guy who was arrested (Tom? from Tesco?) was on police bail for nearly 6 months before bail conditions were cancelled.

Arrest of Suspects

On 18 December 2006, Suffolk Constabulary reported that they had arrested a 37-year-old man on suspicion of murdering all five women.[1]  The man was arrested at 07.20 at a house in Trimley St. Martin near Felixstowe, Suffolk.[37]  The detention of the suspect was extended by magistrates by a further period of 24 hours, to the maximum of 96 hours allowed under English law.[38]  On 19 December, at 05.00, police arrested a second suspect,[39]  a 48-year-old, at a residence in Ipswich, on suspicion of committing murder.[39]  The following day, 20 December, police were granted a 36-hour extension to question the second suspect in detention. On 21 December, a joint statement was issued by DCS Gull and Michael Crimp, senior prosecutor  for the Crown Prosecution Service in Suffolk, announcing that the second suspect identified as Steve Wright had been charged with the murder of all five women.[40]  Police said that the first suspect, who was not officially named,[1]  was released on police bail.[40]  Bail conditions were cancelled on 6 June 2007 for the first suspect, as no more inquiries concerning the case were planned involving this person.[41]
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