Jo Yeates murder suspect arrested

Jo Yeates’s body was found on Christmas Day

A 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of landscape architect Jo Yeates.

Miss Yeates, 25, went missing from her home in Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol, on 17 December after a night out with work colleagues in the city.

Her frozen body was found on Christmas Day near Longwood Lane in Somerset. A post-mortem examination revealed that she had been strangled.

Her father David said he was pleased with the development.

Speaking at the family’s home in Ampfield, Hampshire, he said: “We know as much as you do. We were told at 6am this morning that someone was arrested on suspicion of Jo’s murder and their age.”

Miss Yeates was reported missing by her boyfriend Greg Reardon, 27, on 19 December when he returned to their flat from a weekend away visiting family in Sheffield.

Her body was found six days later by dog walkers on a country road several miles from their home.

Detectives have said there was no evidence that Miss Yeates had been sexually assaulted but they have not ruled out a sexual motive.

Her body was found with a ski sock missing.

Avon and Somerset Police have not revealed where the man was arrested.

It comes two days after a Crimewatch reconstruction was filmed tracing Miss Yeates’s last steps.

The reconstruction focused on what happened to her after she left her firm, BDP, in Bristol city centre.

She went to the Bristol Ram pub and then stopped at Waitrose before buying a mozzarella, tomato and pesto pizza from a Tesco Express store.

She then visited Bargain Booze before walking to her flat.

CCTV footage of Miss Yeates in all three shops was later released by police.

Detectives said she had made it home to her flat because her shoes, coat, mobile phone, purse and keys were found there.

The receipt for the pizza was also found there but no trace has been found of the food or its wrapper.

Tests have revealed Miss Yeates had not eaten the pizza before she died.

Miss Yeates’s parents, David and Teresa, made a televised appeal for information on Monday in which they urged “armchair detectives” to help police.

The appeal prompted more than 300 calls to the force.

Miss Yeates’s landlord Chris Jefferies, 65, was previously held for three days for questioning on suspicion of murder before being released on bail.

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