Girlfriend of Jo Yeates murder suspect Vincent Tabak tipped off the police
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Computer wizard Tabak, 32, was last night still being questioned by police probing the strangling of his next-door neighbour Jo Yeates.
The Dutchman’s girlfriend of three years, Tanja Morson, spoke to detectives following an emotional public appeal from landscape architect Jo’s parents.
And he was seized in a dawn raid on thursday.
Police yesterday refused to confirm or deny if Tanja had implicated her boyfriend.
But a source close to the inquiry said: “She is being treated as a potentially highly significant witness.”
Neighbours claim Tabak left his home in Clifton, Bristol, two days after Jo vanished and travelled to Holland to be with his family for Christmas.
It is not known whether his girlfriend accompanied him.
Police refused to reveal yesterday if they had previously interviewed 6ft 4in Tabak or if he had been initially discounted as a suspect.
Meanwhile, Tabak’s brother Marcel said his arrest had left the family in shock.
He said: “He’s a lovely man and I absolutely think they have got the wrong person.
