Joanna Yeates sweepstake

[TimberWolf]

Having made a huge story out of this awful event, the press now make a huge story out of how the press made a huge story out of it, and then try to understand why the public are so interested in it.

[MarillionFan]

Having made a huge story out of this awful event, the press now make a huge story out of how the press made a huge story out of it, and then try to understand why the public are so interested in it.

Even by the Suns standards it was some incredible(lazy) journalism.

Headlines which included

'Friend with a paedophile'. The guy had worked with another teacher who groomed a pupil for sex. The teacher was jailed and sold his flat to the landlord back in 1999, who rented it to Jo Yeates(hence you get paedophile friend)

'Death Obsessed' - Bearing in mind this guy was also an historian. A former pupil said he showed them 'sickening film's of concentration camps as part of school projects. Hence he was a death obssessed Nazi.

Loner. Obsessed. Wierdo. Blue rinsed hair. Intellectual. Snobbish. Pedantic(would correct people on grammer/spelling). New everyone elses business in the flats. Remind you of anyone?

[TimberWolf]

I must admit I found it curious that the landlord was arrested, i.e. the reason for it other than his blue hair. Surely they must have had a reason. I wonder, roughly, what percentage of people are arrested only to be found innocent?

[Zippy]

Loner. Obsessed. Wierdo. Blue rinsed hair. Intellectual. Snobbish. Pedantic(would correct people on grammer/spelling). New everyone elses business in the flats. Remind you of anyone?

About 50% of the posters on here? Guilty as charged (except for the blue rinse).

[mudskipper]

Pedantic(would correct people on grammar/spelling). Knew everyone else's business in the flats.

Remind you of anyone?

Nope...

[centurian]

I must admit I found it curious that the landlord was arrested, i.e. the reason for it other than his blue hair. Surely they must have had a reason. I wonder, roughly, what percentage of people are arrested only to be found innocent?

I get the impression that the threshold for an arrest has gone down in recent times - or as Harry Redknapp said "They have to arrest you to talk to you"

Police arrest Harry Redknapp over transfer dealings at Portsmouth | Football - Times Online

I wonder if part of the drive behind this was that once you are arrested, your fingerprints and DNA got taken (and retained, even if you were released without charge), plus you had a record on the PNC retained. Given the past governments record on wanting to record everything about us - this was probably encouraged from the top down.

[TimberWolf]

I notice these days the first thing they do is take your PC away to have the hard drive forensically examined. Likewise your ISP probably has to supply your surfing history and email contacts. Who was it who famously said something like any 3 of my sentences would be enough to hang me?

[centurian]

And can anyone on here say that they have never visited a site that can be construed as the least bit morally dodgy - even accidentally.

Now the definition of moral can be hard to pin down - but that's just the point. Unless you stick to the mainstream in every definition (which hardly anyone does), any action can lead to increased suspicion or criticism.

[Paddy]

BBC - Glenis Carruthers murder police say DNA is key

Glenis Carruthers student teacher, 20, was strangled and now evidence from the crime scene is being re-examined in Forensic Science Service laboratories.

Avon and Somerset Police's major crime review team has also made a new appeal for information.

[Freamon]

Joanna Yeates's killer 'still at large', police warn - Telegraph

Police hunting the killer of Joanna Yeates last night issued a warning to women in the Bristol area not to walk home alone telling residents – “whoever killed Jo remains at large”.

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Not sure I quite understand this. Are they saying Chris Jefferies is no longer the main suspect? Or are they saying that, since he's been released, that now means the killer is definitely "at large"?

Chief Supt Stratford said there was no specific intelligence to suggest there was a serial killer on the loose and insisted the warnings were simply routine safety precautions.

Routine attempts to keep the general population in a permanent state of fear and justify their existence, more like it.