Joanna's killer could have avoided every CCTV camera on journey from flat to where her body was found
By Ryan Kisiel, Luke Salkeld and Arthur MartinLast updated at 4:27 AM on 12th January 2011
Joanna Yeates's killer may have driven to where her body was found without being caught on CCTV
Police are understood to have concentrated on more than 100 hours of footage taken from the most direct route between the landscape architect’s home and the lane where she was dumped, which is over the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
But a second route between the two locations, which adds only a few minutes to the journey time, is almost free of cameras.
The alternative course, through Clifton Village, Clifton Wood and Hotwells and over the Avon Bridge towards the outskirts of Bristol, is used by residents familiar with the winding streets of this affluent part of the city.
It has the added bonus of avoiding the 50p toll on the suspension bridge, which is paid by motorists travelling in both directions.
Surprisingly, any motorist or pedestrian making the four-mile downhill journey past rows of Georgian townhouses would encounter only a single camera positioned high on a lamp post.
But that does not even record footage and is simply used to monitor traffic flow.
It has also been suggested that because of the side of the road on which Miss Yeates’s body was found on Longwood Lane, the killer is likely to have arrived from the southerly direction of the second route.
There are fears that detectives searching through CCTV footage from the suspension bridge, a notorious suicide spot with many cameras on it, might never find the 25-year-old’s killer on film.
POLICE SEEK SUSPICIOUS 4X4 SEEN ON LONGWOOD
Another sighting of a vehicle driving up and down a country road the day after Joanna Yeates went missing has been reported.
On December 18, a couple were suspicious of a vehicle passing them several times on Longwood Lane, where Miss Yeates’s body was found seven days later.
They told police – despite being unaware she had gone missing the night before.
Police are appealing for information about a light-coloured 4x4 seen there.
On December 18, a couple were suspicious of a vehicle passing them several times on Longwood Lane, where Miss Yeates’s body was found seven days later.
They told police – despite being unaware she had gone missing the night before.
Police are appealing for information about a light-coloured 4x4 seen there.
‘However, if they didn’t, there are routes through Clifton Wood that are residential and don’t have any CCTV. Everyone thought there would be traffic cameras on the Avon Bridge, but there aren’t and some that cover it are very poor quality.’
The revelation of a camera-free route between Canynge Road and Longwood Lane in Failand comes after police played down reports that the lights on the suspension bridge blurred some of its CCTV footage at night.
Around 20 per cent of its cameras are unable to read licence plate numbers clearly, but there are traffic-light CCTV stands at the Ashton Court and Beggar Bush Lane junctions across the bridge that the killer or killers must have driven past if they crossed the bridge.
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Around 20 per cent of its cameras are unable to read licence plate numbers clearly, but there are traffic-light CCTV stands at the Ashton Court and Beggar Bush Lane junctions across the bridge that the killer or killers must have driven past if they crossed the bridge.
Yesterday the building where Miss Yeates lived with her boyfriend Greg Reardon in Canynge Road was again the subject of intense forensic examination.
The visit by six forensic officers followed reports of a piece of crucial new evidence handed to police.
POSSIBILITY OF HIGH-LEVEL REVIEW OF THE CASE
A high-level review of the Jo Yeates murder inquiry could be ordered within days.
So far, Avon and Somerset Police have arrested only one man, whom they later released on bail, leading to some questioning their progress in the high-profile case.
And if the situation continues for another 11 days, a ‘28-day review’ will be held by a senior investigating officer either from within the force - or from outside it.
So far, Avon and Somerset Police have arrested only one man, whom they later released on bail, leading to some questioning their progress in the high-profile case.
And if the situation continues for another 11 days, a ‘28-day review’ will be held by a senior investigating officer either from within the force - or from outside it.
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