Jo Yeates’s body was found on Christmas Day The landlord of landscape architect Jo Yeates is continuing to be questioned on suspicion of her murder.
Former public school teacher Chris Jefferies, 65, was arrested on Thursday in the flat above the one Miss Yeates had rented in Canynge Road, Bristol.
The 25-year-old was found dead on Christmas Day, eight days after she was last seen on CCTV visiting an off-licence and two local supermarkets.
Post-mortem tests revealed she had been strangled.
Miss Yeates’s boyfriend Greg Reardon, with whom she lived, reported her missing two days later when he returned home from visiting family in Sheffield.
Her body was found in Longwood Lane, in Failand, near Bristol, by a couple walking their dogs.
Mr Jefferies, who formerly taught English at the nearby Clifton College public school, lives in the flat above the Victorian basement property he rented to the couple.
He is currently being questioned at a police station within the Avon and Somerset force area.
On Thursday, officers removed two cars from the street where Miss Yeates lived – a silver Chrysler and a grey Volvo S40.
Chris Jefferies is a former English teacher Miss Yeates’s keys, mobile phone, purse and coat had been left behind at her flat and forensic examiners previously said there was no sign of a forced entry or a struggle at the property.
On Wednesday police appealed for information after saying Mr Jefferies had reported seeing three people, one of whom he believed was Miss Yeates, leaving the block of flats on the night she was last seen.
However, later that day he told reporters he denied telling police he saw Miss Yeates leaving with two unidentified people.
Miss Yeates is known to have left the Ram pub, on Park Street, at about 2000 GMT on the night she disappeared.
Police have issued CCTV images of her then visiting a Waitrose store on The Triangle, a Bargain Booze shop, and a Tesco Express near her flat.
She bought a pizza at the Tesco store but while the receipt was found at her flat, no trace has been found of the food or its wrapper.
Crimestoppers has offered a £10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her killer.
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