Joanna Yeates's final text message on the night she vanished was to ask a friend out for a drink, it emerged today.
The male friend, who was thought to be asleep, did not reply and is now wrestling with guilt that he could have prevented her death.
Joanna, 25, sent the text on her way home after leaving colleagues in a pub as she passed close to the house of a friend of her brother.
She had not seen him for almost two years and decided to ask him to meet up on the spur of the moment.
A source told The Sun: 'She never got a reply. She carried on home and the friend now feels horribly guilty about not getting back to her.
'He's told people "I could have saved her life". He's beside himself.'
The message was apparently sent on December 17 at around 8pm and buying cider at an off-licence some 20 minutes later.
The recipient, who has not been named, was interviewed by police as a matter of routine because phone records showed Joanna had been in touch.
The male friend, who was thought to be asleep, did not reply and is now wrestling with guilt that he could have prevented her death.
Joanna, 25, sent the text on her way home after leaving colleagues in a pub as she passed close to the house of a friend of her brother.
She had not seen him for almost two years and decided to ask him to meet up on the spur of the moment.
A source told The Sun: 'She never got a reply. She carried on home and the friend now feels horribly guilty about not getting back to her.
'He's told people "I could have saved her life". He's beside himself.'
The message was apparently sent on December 17 at around 8pm and buying cider at an off-licence some 20 minutes later.
The recipient, who has not been named, was interviewed by police as a matter of routine because phone records showed Joanna had been in touch.
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