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There is also the possibility that something may have happened after Tabak carried Yeates's body back to his own flat. Certainly, according to the prosecution, there was a delay of more than an hour before he put her body into the boot of his car and drove it away. Finally, what police and pathologists discovered when they examined Yeates's body suggested more went on than Tabak admits to recalling. She had suffered 43 injuries, including wounds to her face, throat and arms.

Though her jeans had not been tampered with, her T-shirt had been pulled up above her breasts and part of her right breast exposed. A sample of Tabak's DNA was found on her chest, however scientists could not establish what it came from. The bottom line is that nobody apart from Tabak can say what happened — and he claims his memory of exactly what happened remains sketchy.

Not at all sketchy are the last known moments of Yeates's life. They have become all too familiar. She vanished eight days before Christmas after leaving the Ram pub on Park Street in Bristol, where she had been enjoying after-work drinks with work colleagues. It was cold and snow and ice lay thick on the pavements.

Yeates bought a tomato, mozzarella and basil pizza from a supermarket and picked up two bottles of cider from an off-licence. Police believe she got back to her Clifton flat, which was already decorated in readiness for Christmas, at about 8.

Within moments — at about 8. And then silence. Yeates's boyfriend, Greg Reardon, returned from a weekend away on the evening of Sunday 19 December to find Yeates missing, though her mobile phone, keys, purse and coat were there.

At Tabak answered and denied all knowledge. His denial led to — in Tabak's own words — a "week of hell" for Yeates's family and friends.

Over the next seven days police and family issued a series of increasingly desperate appeals for help in finding her. On 23 December police revisited Tabak and carried out a routine search of the flat he shared with his girlfriend, Tanja Morson, to check Yeates was not there. He joked to friends that they must have thought he had stashed her in a drawer. Tabak and Morson, the daughter of a Harvard-educated lawyer, then left Bristol to spend Christmas in Cambridge at her parents' home.

The trial began on 4 October at Bristol Crown Court. It would finish just over three weeks later. According to one officer he had appeared calm, unlike his girlfriend, who had showed extreme concern. Having initially been ruled out as a suspect Tabak had been allowed to spend the New Year celebrations in Holland. During that time his girlfriend Miss Morson had contacted police with information about Jefferies. As the pair chatted Tabak claimed he misread the situation, due to a flirty comment that Joanna had made.

He found her attractive that night and had gone to kiss her on the lips. Joanna screamed, and in a bid to silence her Tabak placed his hands around her neck. Within seconds she was dead. The pathologist, Dr Delaney, revealed that Joanna suffered 43 injuries during the struggle that ended her life.

He showed photographs to the jury of red bruise marks on her neck and chin, and blood underneath her nose. He made the jury aware that these injuries were sustained during life, while the heart was beating.

He went on to say that Tabak would have seen her struggling to breathe. Mr Lickley, prosecuting, pointed out that Tabak was a foot taller than Joanna and could have removed his hand to save her. He chose not to which meant she endured a slow and painful death. According to his defence, Mr Clegg QC told the jury that Tabak panicked and instead of calling the police he calmly turned the oven off and took out the pizza.

He then placed the body in the boot of his car and took a trip to his local Asda in Bedminster. After the killing the jury were told that whenever Tabak was alone he would go online, frantically following the developments of the murder case. He researched refuse collection times, the location of the body and body decomposition time.

Failing to do so, he had instead placed her body in a foetal-type position on the snow and covered it with leaves. She didn't buy anything there, but left the shop around 8.

Although there's no CCTV to prove it, detectives believed Joanna made it home to her flat because the Tesco receipt for the pizza was later discovered there, along with the coat she had been wearing that night, her mobile phone and keys. But from there, they were at a loss. Where was she? Why did she appear to have vanished into thin air? The pizza Joanna had bought on the night of her disappearance all of a sudden became central to the investigation when police noticed there was no trace of it in the year-old's flat.

If she had eaten the pizza, surely the box would have been discovered in a nearby bin. If she hadn't eaten the pizza, it should theoretically still have been inside the flat. There didn't seem to be any answers. A few days into Joanna Yeates' disappearance, and her loved ones were getting increasingly desperate to find her. But as the time went on, they became more and more fearful that wouldn't happen.

Joanna's mother, Teresa, agreed. She knew her daughter had planned to spend a quiet weekend in the flat in Clifton to prepare for a party she and Greg were planning to host the following Tuesday.

The nearer to Christmas it got, the more panic spread. Developments were sparse in the case, and investigators were baffled over what could have happened to the seemingly-happy year-old. Jo's boyfriend, Greg Reardon, made an appeal on December 22 for her to come home.

This Christmas was going to be our first together. I was going to spend it with her family, which is always a big deal for a boyfriend. Andy Davies is in court. Jurors visit a flat frozen in time, untouched since Joanna Yeates was murdered last Christmas. The address in Bristol still contains her personal belongings and even Christmas decorations.

The trial of the man accused of murdering Joanna Yeates has heard he strangled the year old before going shopping while her body was in the boot of his car. Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak pleads guilty to the killing of year-old Joanna Yeates, but denies murder at a hearing before the Old Bailey.