Michelle Bettles / Glenis Carruthers / Sandra Hardyman

Michelle Bettles / Glenis Carruthers / Sandra Hardyman

http://www.notleynet.freeserve.co.uk/merlin/michellebettles.htm

Glenis and Sandra both members of The Fisherfolk'

Meetings held at...

Gresham School
Holt
Norfolk...

Michelle Bettles murdered over Easter weekend 2002 in Norfolk...was thera Christian meeting and were any members from Clifton College there?

Was there a meeting of 'The Fisher folk' that week-end?

Were all Hardymans including Stanley Hardyman a member of this Christian group ?


Michelle Bettles (22)

From Norwich, Norfolk

Murdered Thursday 28 March 2002, Norfolk

Michelle Bettles, a drug addict and prostitute, with three small children, none of whom were in her care, she was last seen alive in the Queens Road area of Norwich. Her fully-clothed body was founded in woodland off Podmore Lane, Podmore, near Scarning, Dereham, three days later.

Michelle had been working as a prostitute in Norwich. She is thought to have travelled from her home in Dereham Road into the red light district on the Thursday evening. It was believed she walked along St.Benedicts towards the city centre. Michelle had made arrangements with two men for that evening . One of those men was from a business in Prince of Wales Road in Norwich, and the other was a taxi driver from the Thetford area.
At about 21:30 on Saturday 30th March, people working close to the scene at Scarning where Michelle's body was found heard an engine "racing." Soon afterwards, a "Japanese type" 4 x 4 vehicle was seen driving at speed towards Dereham, away from the spot where Michelle's body was found.

A man walking his dog in Rushmeadow Road, Scarning near Dereham, found Michelle's body at approximately 10:15 on Sunday 31st March. The cause of her death was manual strangulation.

Some items of Michelle's personal property was missing: a long black leather coat, a black fabric jacket with a fur collar, a long black leather coat with wide lapels and belt, and possibly a tear on the left shoulder, a black hair brush with cream bristles on one side only and about eight inches in length, as well as disposable cream or clear coloured "Clipper" lighter or lighters, a pack of Golden Virginia or Old Holborn tobacco, and Rizla cigarette papers, and possibly a handbag or other personal effects.

(What if this is another Jo Yeates type of murder, coat and bag missing, but body may have been dumped after being murdered inside someones home, or car.....no mention of sexual abuse..still wearing her boots and Glenis 's sandals were found near by...once again manual strangulation..no one would steal her coat it would be recognised ,so again a body found without a coat and bag missing...?)
Michelle was approximately 5ft. 4in. tall, very slim with long dark wavy hair. She had a mole on her nose and distinctive thick dark eyebrows. When found she was wearing a red T-shirt, red wrap around skirt, beige tights and long zipped black boots. She was the mother of three young children. She had lived in Norwich for the majority of her life, but also had connections in Dereham and Swaffham. She became a heroin addict and prostitute.

Telephone Norfolk Police: 01953 424242.



We have enjoyed another very busy year in the Christian Forum. Our weekly Wednesday evening meetings in room 13 have attracted between 10 and 35 pupils each week.

Many of the outside speakers are leaders at Iwerne Holidays or full time staff members of that organisation. Iwerne Holdiays organise Christian holiday parties in Norfolk as well as other activities and Clifton has a strong link with these holidays at the moment. Over the last few years around 30 Cliftonians have attended one of the holidays or the Easter revision week.

Last seen Holy Thursday March 28

Body found Easter Sunday....

Easter and Christmas deaths ???

AND another 4x4 involved or seen ...


The murder of Michelle Bettles was one of a series of prostitute murders in Norfolk going back to 1992 when the first one, Natalie Pearman, was killed:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...ed-786412.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/6179999.stm

 It was later thought that Steve Wright, the Ipswich prostitute murderer, was involved, especially as he was the landlord of the pub where Natalie Pearman was a regular. The police say, however, that he was not connected with them. He also worked on the QE2 with Suzy Lamplugh, and was on leave at the same time she disappeared.

20 miles from Holt to Scarning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUQUwCges20

Christian Group in song...from the  'Fisherfolk'

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/5324888496/

Both members of 'Fisherfolk' the comment in the above article ' It was not that SORT' of party 'makes me wonder was it a 'Fisherfolk' sort of party...Religious groups attract a lot of very strange people.

A little more info picked up from DS.


Iwerne Holidays (from their site) were founded in 1930 and used a public school in Iwerne Minster for 'about 60 years' from the beginning of WW2 for summer retreats until moving to Holt in Norfolk. Bournemouth is around 25 miles away from Iwerne Minster....

Sandra Court was found murdered close to the Avon Causeway near Hurn (this is in the sticks but is a commonly used road) on May 3 1986 (a Bank Holiday weekend). She was strangled with minimum force and her shoes were missing. There was no obvious sign of a sexual motive. Suzi Lamplugh disappeared soon afterwards and the cases were certainly linked in the local media .

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/feat...2_years_later/

The trail of evidence left by the perp seems to indicate someone from out of the immediate area as Picket Post is a junction on the A31 which leads to the M27/M3 (Southampton/London) heading east or Ringwood/Dorchester/Blandford/Exeter heading west. It is not the most direct route back into Bournemouth or Poole from the dump site.


Another very bizarre coincidence is that starting from Sandra Court there's a 8 year gap between the main victims, mentioned on here, who were murdered and found in a similar fashion. Sandra Court 1986, Lindsay Rimer 1994, Michelle Bettles 2002 and Joanna 2010.
In turn RPS planning is linked to Joanna Yates! her work place Hyland Edgar Driver and RPS planning are linked to the planning application FOUGHT BY Christopher Jefferies and Mr Peter Rendle ,


Joanna Yates lived under the same roof as people who hated her company and boss she worked for and her job.she would not know the bad blood and feelings by Chris Jefferies and Peter Rendal when she saw the advert for £750 a month flat.

http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/58...59/compdetails

http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/The_Fisherfolk/Worship_Classics_Vol_1_Worship_With_The_Fisherfolk/7903/

Vincent Tabak: Before the alleged killer of Jo Yeates was charged with her murder there was A LOT of talk about Glenis Carruthers. PC John Olver seems to have been asked to speak up and lay the 'ghost' of Ms.Carruthers killer to rest by telling the public he doubts her killer will ever be found, when only last year police felt there was a good chance of possibly finding her killer. I have no idea if Mr.Tabak is guilty or not but I have noticed the silence that now surrounds the unsolved murder and the coincidences from the house where Jo Yeates lived .

MURDER AND MY LIFE ON MARS...

IT is one of the most iconic images of old-style policing in the Evening Post's archives.

A fresh-faced young bobby, PC John Olver, stands on the edge of the Downs holding a poster bearing the words "Did You See This Girl?"

The year was 1974, and the people of Clifton were reeling from the horrific murder of 20-year-old Glenis Carruthers.
Glenis was strangled and her body left in what, today, is Bristol Zoo's car park.

The 26-year-old beat bobby clinging to the poster was using the only type of media campaign the police knew at the time.

Thirty-seven years on, and John, now 62, shakes his head as he examines the monochrome photograph.

"It is extraordinary, but that was how things were done in those days," he says.

"To give some idea of how things have changed, I heard about the murder of Joanna Yeates on Twitter," John adds, as he potters about the kitchen of his Brislington home making a pot of tea.

"My son tweeted me to let me know."

The world may have moved on in the 37 years between the two tragic Clifton murder cases, but few things have changed quite as much as policing.

"It really was like Life On Mars back then," John says. "It was a time of great change in the policing world, especially here in Bristol. At the time, the top brass were preparing for the amalgamation of the old Bristol Constabulary with the Somerset force, much to the consternation of many policemen.

"I remember there were some bobbies who refused to change their cap badges after the amalgamation. Tensions were running high in the force.

"I think the Carruthers case was probably the last murder the old Bristol Constabulary actually dealt with. I remember they started bringing officers in from Somerset to work with our guys on the case, so everyone was a bit unsettled.

"Could that have influenced the failure to find the murderer?" John ponders, gazing out of the window as if looking back down through the decades.

"I don't know," he shrugs after a long pause. "But I doubt it. My theory is that the culprit was completely unknown to Glenis – that it was an opportunistic sexual assault or robbery gone wrong.

"Those kinds of murders, where there is no connection between the victim and the perpetrator, are always the most difficult to solve – especially in those days before the onset of DNA evidence.

"The policing world was a very different place back then. You only have to look at the old photographs of the makeshift incident room we had up on the Downs, near to the entrance of Bristol Zoo, close to where the body was found.

"If you look at those old photographs, there wasn't a single computer in sight.
"We took around 16,000 statements in that case, and they were all stored in a card indexing system.

"Today they would all be filed on a computer, and the computer software would scan everything, looking for correlations between all the different statements.

"Back then it was all about old-fashioned detective work and sheer manpower.

"I was a humble PC, but I was brought on to the case because I was a beat bobby in Clifton – part of what would now be known as a community beat team. We had the local knowledge and contacts.

"In those days foot patrols were the staple of policing. We had a lot more officers regularly on the beat, and as a result we got to know our areas well.

"I knew so many people in Clifton, and because they were familiar with me, people would come and talk to me if they had any information."

Glenis Carruthers, a student teacher at Bedford College of Physical Education, had actually travelled to the city to attend the 21st birthday party from which she mysteriously disappeared.

Nobody saw Glen
is leave the Worcester Crescent party venue. Various theories were mooted at the time – perhaps she slipped out quietly when other party-goers became romantically involved, or as the then head of Bristol CID suggested, she may simply have "been hot and needed a breath of fresh air".

"There was another theory," John says, "that she left the party to walk to a phone box to make a call – another sign of changing times."

Whatever the reason, the mystery struck fear into the community.

"As beat bobbies, we had the job of going out in the weeks after the murder, to be a visible presence to try to put people at ease.

"Clifton hasn't actually changed much over the years – the community was made up of wealthy people and students.

"There were a lot of young women living there, particularly students, who really did feel vulnerable after the murder.

"We offered the usual advice – that young women shouldn't go out alone after dark, especially as at the time the street lights were out on account of Edward Heath's fight with the miners.

"I distinctly remember the nervousness among the community – it was only surpassed in my experience by the later Clifton Rapist, who was eventually caught, of course."
But John says the media interest in the murder was on a very different scale to the Yeates case.

"The recent case went international in the media. As far as I remember, the Carruthers case didn't really go national. There wasn't that same kind of pervasive media then – no 24-hour news channels, no Crimewatch on the BBC. It also meant there was less hype and nervousness.

"I think the presence of CCTV in modern-day murder cases has the effect of allowing members of the public to feel they know the victim – when you can look at the images of the victim going about her business moments before her disappearance, it really brings the tragedy of the murder home to you on a personal level."

Back in 1974, police were entirely reliant on eye-witnesses. In the Carruthers case, the central eye witness was Bristol Zoo keeper Alf Elliott, who lived in nearby Northcote Road.
He said he had spotted someone who fitted Miss Carruthers' description while he was out exercising his dogs.

He passed what he thought was a courting couple but, when he passed them again, the man got up and walked away, leaving the woman in the grass.

"I shouted to him 'hey, what's your game?' He didn't reply and I repeated what I had just said. He just stared and went on his way," the zoo keeper later recalled.

"I could not see the man very well as it was quite dark and a mass of hair hid his face."
Alf called the police straightaway.

"We knew Alf well," John says. "Often we would divert our beat through the zoo, and we would chat to the zoo keepers – they were an important part of the community we were policing.

"I don't know whether Alf actually saw the killer or just another member of the public, but if he did, sadly his description never helped to apprehend him."

In the exhaustive inquiry that followed, 175 detectives and officers questioned almost everyone in the area, including every pupil at nearby Clifton College.

A key piece of evidence was the shank of a pair of spectacles which might have belonged to the killer, found nearby. Every optician in the county was visited but no information was forthcoming.

"Ultimately," John says. "Every line of inquiry reached a dead-end."

Never solved, the case was never closed on the murder of Glenis Carruthers, and today it is one of many unsolved "cold cases" being examined by the police's Major Case Review Team (MCRT).

But John says he doubts whether the culprit will ever be caught. It's a hell of a long time ago now," he sighs. "It is tragic to think justice might never be done for Glenis Carruthers."

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/MURDER-LIFE-MARS/article-3184223-detail/article.html

Vincent Tabak....somethings not right !

1./ He has no car just a bicycle... how did he get her across the bridge in a suitcase ? if as suggested a bag was missing from the flat. Had Vincent borrowed a car ?

2./ People from Holland often walk or cycle everywhere..it is customary in Holland... yet they have to admit it took more than a bicycle to get her over the bridge... then they show a pic of Vincent WALKING to a store just before being arrested...again he was not in a car...

3./ The fact that the Pizza has never been found is a clue ... If it was Vincent then we need an explanation as to why Joanna took the pizza to the home of someone she barely knew.. ! We now know Jo did not eat the pizza and a neighbour questioned once more about screams of 'help me ' around midnight ...whish possibly means the scream heard at around 9 pm possibly a red herring.

4./ Vincent left for Holland on a prearranged flight to see his family on the Sunday  after Joanna was supposedly murdered (assuming she was murdered on the Friday night.) Vincent Tabak was organised, a calm guy and he had plans for Christmas...what would possess him to murder someone and therefore risk his plans ?

5./ Police are under pressure to get a murderer off the streets..what better way than to charge a neighbour who was leaving for Christmas...and make it look like he left after murdering someone....somethings not right here...

6/ Is this still an ongoing investigation ?

SOURCE: With help from a blogger..

Family say Vincent is innocent...neighbour tells of late night scream 'help me '

http://www.whatsonningbo.com/news-1449-uk-police-get-more-tip-offs-against-vincent-tabak-for-alleged-murder-of-jo-yeate.html

Vincent Tabak /Glenis Carruthers /Jo Yeates...is there more to this story ?.

*Still more added on the possible association between the Glenis Carruthers murder and the Joanna Yeates murder. Now includes more observations and an analysis of the 'Moonstone story', which involves the mysterious presence of the Hindu Moon god. The 'Moonstone' is a reputed favorite of Mr Jefferies.
Mr Jefferies, Joanna Yeates' resident Landlord, and Mr Peter Stanley, their immediate neighbour, who headed up the Neighbourhood Watch scheme together, were in a position to frame Vincent Tabak by planting and arranging forensic evidence.

We know that the scene in Joanna Yeates' flat was meticulously arranged when poor Greg discovered it on his return from Sheffield. There were two bottles of cider on the side, one of which appeared to have been drunk by Jo half way down, but there were no glasses in evidence. Her belongings, including her handbag, mobile phone and keys, were meticulously placed on the table. These, we saw, seemed on appearance as if they had been planted there by a neighbour who wanted it to look like there had been a stranger abduction.

The crime scene was evidently designed to give the police the impression, albeit strangely and rather contrivedly, that Joanna had arranged to meet with a lover that night who had later killed her, possibly in her flat, ( though this was left open to consideration) and had attempted to dispose of evidence ( the pizza) while leaving incriminating evidence on the side ( the two bottles of cider). Two bottles of cider were left conspicuously on the side, one was half drunk. The pizza had disappeared.

Was that appearance and impression created deliberately, for the purpose of framing someone?

The receipt for the pizza was tucked neatly inside Jo's bag; yet the pizza was gone.
The mobile phone contained evidence of text sent via that phone asking to meet someone for a drink. ( The killer(s) may not have known about it, unless he/they either examined the phone and saw that there was a text on it, or sent it himself/themselves.)

We know that Mr Jefferies and Mr Stanley both helped Greg, Joanna's boyfriend, start his car before he left for Sheffield. hence they knew he was going away for the week end.

Here, detail in an article that describes Mr Jefferies as having in former days been the landlord of the flat that Vincent Tabak rented. He was evidently in posession of the keys to that flat. It is not known whether Mr Jefferies actually rented to Vincent Tabak, or whether the locks have ever been changed since he rented to the former tenants who rented the flat that Vincent Tabak was living in with his girlfriend. The former tenants, who cannot have an ulterior motive, at least not as far as relevant practical facts are concerned, went to a newspaper with their story and permitted their photo to be taken. Here.

'Gary and Kat Anderton lived for seven months in 2005 in a two-bed flat in Clifton, Bristol, next to the one that murdered Jo Yeates later rented. They said Jefferies was always checking up on them and knew their movements.

TV editor Gary, 42, said: "There was nothing sinister, but I have no doubt he went in to check on things when we weren't there. He was very meticulous, everything had to be pristine.

"Every week he'd say, 'I need to check this, can I come over?' And you couldn't really say no. He had a key so he could come in when he wanted.

"He would also have known if Kat was there on her own. He seemed to know everyone's movements and could see if my car wasn't there."

 

Here you have a floor plan of the two basement flats: Vincent's is the two bedroomed one. At the base of page linked ( this Newspaper linked does not permit image save.)

Mr Jefferies was in a position to set up a scene in both Joanna's and Vincent Tabak's flat, arrange forensic traces in both flats, and frame Vincent Tabak.

In the first article linked on this page hereto, Mr Jefferies is described by a former pupil as 'obsessed with death' . Others have emphatically described him as "obsessed with the Pre Raphaelites." Just one article containing that information here.

 

See post below for an analysis of the significant relevance of the Pre Raphaelites and their art to the extraordinary period in which Joanna Yeates died. Recently I read about the extraordinary event over Solstice ( the time Joanna Yeates was murdered) involving the rare coincidence of a Lunar Eclipse, and checked out its association with the subject the Moon goddess 'Artemis', a 'Moon goddess' reverenced by the 'Pagans' and the 'Freemasons', who was regularly painted by the Pre Raphaelites, ( in Victorian times as well as today). It had previously seemed to me that people were just picking on Mr Jefferies on account of an artistic vent when they criticised his love for the Pre Raphaelite artists. However Mr Jefferies' own personal interest in the Pre Raphaelites would now seem to be significant in the case- along with everything else he has been doing.

His 'old boys network' and all its characters, including those who are Pagans and Canynge Lodge Freemasons, would seem to be of great interest in respect of this matter, too.

Mr Jefferies bought one of the flats he rents out from a convicted paedophile, as we know. This man was another schoolmaster at the Bristol Clifton Academy were Mr Jefferies taught, and one of Mr Jefferies' and Mr Stanley's close circle of friends. He probably still is.

 

Throughout the time that Mr Jefferies has been on bail, at various interludes, usually prior to a development in the case, we have consistently heard him state that 'his ordeal will soon be over'- ( according to reports.) How should such a thing be known by him?

It would be my own personal recommendation that Mr Jefferies and Mr Stanley should not be released from their respective positions of bail and observation without a thorough, proper investigation.

Given Mr Jefferies' evident Pre Raphaelite and possibly Moon goddess obsessions, ( which he may posess individually or share with a group/cult), which puts him in the picture regaridng the murder of Jo Yeates much more than we previously expected, I have questions about his so called coincidental link with the man who rents the flat at the top of that house at 44 Canynge road.

 

The man who rents the flat at the top of the house where Joanna was murdered is Geoffrey Hardyman, a pensioner of seventy five- he is related to Sandra Hardyman, a woman who was hosting the party in Clifton, Bristol, that Glenis Carruthers attended on the night she died all those years ago, in 1974. The party was hosted really just a few yards from 44 Canynge road, where Mr Jefferies has been renting out his flats for some time; it's almost diagonally opposite.

Do we have to believe that it's a coincidence just because the police are too hopeless or too corrupt to make any progress on the cold case? I feel it just cannot be a coincidence! How can it be? Here is the BBC documentary on Glenis Carruthers. There were some mistakes in the original news reports; for instance they state that Glenis was killed where she was found, whereas of course that is not entirely known- although the interesting witness, the Zookeeper, who appears to describe what would be a very good likeness to a young Mr Chris Jefferies, appears to think she was murdered where she was found. He claims to have seen the murderer. The cold case police obsess over forensic DNA techniques and have all but thrown investigation and deduction away as if they were an old pair of shoes.

 

According to one report, Chris Jefferies and Geoffrey Hardyman have 'known each other for forty years.' Other reports state that they have known each other for less time, but for a significant amount of time, nonetheless.

 

Could Chris Jefferies have met Sandra Hardyman through Geoffrey Hardyman, and Glenis through Sandra? Of course he could have!

Or could Mr Jefferies and Mr Hardyman have met after the Glenis murder, with Mr Jefferies keen to keep the relations of Glenis Carruthers and Sandra Hardyman sweet towards him? The Hardymans most of all perhaps, because they of course hosted the party that Glenis attended the night she died and were in a postion to discuss where the murderer might have been that night, and who he was.

 

Do you think there might have been a sad love story between Chris Jefferies and Glennis Caruthers? ( If only for a few days?) Chris Jefferies was only twenty eight back in 1974. They are rather alike in some ways. Similar facial features ( Mr Jefferies was young once), and both teachers of course. Perhaps Chris Jefferies' affection was somehow distorted in life; very aesthetic and fantastical, and ending in murder.

Why did Chris Jefferies come to work in Bristol? Do you think it was the memories of the place, in a strange or unusual way? Or, given that he was ( is) evidently very exacting and controlling, did he move to Clifton, Bristol, in order to dominate and control the scene where Glenis Carruthers died? And keep tracks on the Hardymans at the same time?

Glenis Carruthers had been a PE teacher, in training apparently. Has that got anything to do with why Mr Jefferies always flatly refused to take part in PE and sport at the Bristol College where he taught for twenty years? Usually masters always take part in sport, his colleagues all noted, but Mr Jefferies flatly refused to. It is indeed strange. Like so much of this case. He is not unfit or overweight and he doesn't suffer from any type of condition- and this has always been the case. Why wouldn't he participate in PE or on the sports field even once?

( It was very near to the party apart from everything else, that sports field, wasn't it?)

 

''Mr Jefferies was also famous for his utter dislike of sports. At boarding schools, teachers often referee rugby or football matches - but not him. He made it perfectly clear from the start that that was not his scene."

Glenis Caruthers was very lovely in the face; gentle and generous eyes.

Why did Geoffrey Hardyman leap to Chris Jefferies' defence when he was accused of the murder of Joanna Yeates? Ringing up the newspapers and so on? Has he been 'kept sweet' by Mr Jefferies? (Or is there some mutual protection going on there perhaps?)

Is there a chance that Mr Geoffrey Hardyman imparted some vital information to Jo quite unwittingly? And dropped it in conversation to Mr Jefferies that he had?

 

The Avon and Somerset Police site gives a description of Glenis’ ( possible) murderer:

"The witness described the man as white, between 20 to 25 years old; around 5ft 10inches tall in height, medium build, with brown shoulder length hair. He was wearing a three-quarter length coat and a denim type cap.”Here is Agatha Christies' second most beautiful story. (The best is 'Nemesis', titled after the goddess of retribution, with its beautiful Freemasonry secrets style themes). Her two really lovely ones are both cold cases, and very inspiring. Showing she really had got the psychological talent. I told you about that beautiful little tune ( not the introductory theme tune) that permeates this story once didn't I. It's full of joy. ( Both 'Sleeping Murder' and 'Nemesis' were originally broadcast in two parts, and the youtube edit for both devides the two parts into twelve.)


This is rather lovely; the history of the Carruthers clan. 'Ready and faithful.'

I think one of the most interesting features of the 'Sleeping Murder' story is the way Christie portrays so simply and so beautifully the concept of 'displaced memory.' In the Sleeping Murder story case, the displaced memory experienced by the innocent witness.

 

Mr Jefferies, when he talked about seeing Jo leave the flats with a couple of people talking in hushed tones gave us evidence which of course may be true to fact.

I also wonder though, whether if in fact his recall was displaced; whether it in fact went back to another time much further back?

Glenis Carruthers most conspicuously left a party in a flat on the night she died, and was last seen talking with people just outside the house where a party was being hosted just nearby, apparently. Did Mr Jefferies see it? (What role had he played in Glenis' short life that night?) Or did he say he did, at the time, all those years ago?

Of course his statement might have been a simple strategic cover for the fact that he himself had individually perpetrated or taken part in a recent murder.

It has to be one of the above, unless he was making up a story just to promote himself as a Neighbourhood Watch supremo. ( How likely is that in the case?)

And last but not least, the ex pupils who were taught by Mr Jefferies describe him as having a fascination with the Moonstone story written by Wilkie Collins, often claimed to be one of the most famous and wonderful detective novels in the history of English literature. Some students at Clifton College describe it as having been 'his favourite book'.

'The student told how Jefferies had an "academic obsession" with death, and was particularly fascinated by Victorian murder novel The Moonstone and disturbing Holocaust documentary Night And Fog.

He said pupils mostly tried to avoid Jefferies - but he and his classmates were once taken to the teacher's flat. He added: "We went for a book reading. I thought it was odd we went to his flat. To go to a master's house was very, very strange, but there was nothing more to it."'

This novel 'The Moonstone' infers the mysterious presence of the Hindu Moon God ( here) and tells the tale of a crime committed during a young woman's eighteenth birthday party. Coincidence?

The Hindu sacrifice rituals involve a complete removal of footwear. Especially you mustn't wear any leather on your feet, because the cow is considered sacred. We know that Glenis Carruthers' body was found without her boots, an her socks were on her feet; otherwise she was fully clothed. Here, everything that comes up when you put in 'Hindu Ritual Barefoot' in the toolbar.

Here, the Wiki summary of the 'Lunar deities.'

Here, an informative list of the 'Lunar goddesses'.

Normally we, the 'woefully ignorant public who simply are not Freemason moral bastions and pillars of the community' associate Freemasonry only with Isis and Osiris, ( Isis is an Egyptian Moon goddess). However many Moon goddesses are in fact of interest to the Freemason community and their tites and rituals. It depends on the time of year and the different haoppenings within the Freemason community.

We know that Joanna Yeates was murdered during the period of the spectacular Lunar Eclipse during Winter Solstice, and that Glenis Carruthers was curiously murdered during the year of the 1974 Lunar Eclipse. And that Mr Jefferies was ( is ) devoted to the Pre Raphaelites, who painted the goddess 'Artemis', and to the 'Moonstone' story.

( See post below for a detailed analysis of the significance of the goddess 'Artemis' and rites and ritual sacrifices associated to her, as they relate to the Lunar Eclipse during Winter Solstice, and as they may relate to the Joanna Yeates murder case.)

Such issues would perhaps not be relevant to a single suspect usually but Mr Jefferies prides himself on being a literary academic like no other, and something of a wonderful detective. Evidently.

According to one colleague, he condescends and looks down on other people. To me he seems to have a disregard for others; he appears high minded but sadly arrogant. I wouldn't put it beyond him to set imaginative puzzles for people he might perceive as illiterate and uneducated, people who he considers to be beneath him. However the limited information available on Mr Jefferies ( provided the press reports are genuine, and he is entitled to dispute them) doesn't explain the CCTV capture of what was purportedly two people who followed Joanna home.

Today ( 31st Jan) we learn that Vincent Tabak has appeared in court and a date has been set for his trial, the 4th October. Evidently there is no 'Guilty' plea, no confession, and a great deal of research to be done on the case. Mr Jefferies is still on bail. And Joanna's body has been released by the pathologist. Vincent hasn't got a trial date without entering a 'Not Guilty' plea; why has his plea not even been identified and reported?

Vincent Tabak appears to me to have absolutely no motive.

 He has a relationship with an interesting girl he's grateful for: they seem to have a very loving relationship. Even if he might have been tempted elsewhere for a short while he'd be hardly likely to throw away what he had for some murderous episode next door! Likewise his good position, his comfortable home, and work he enjoys. Why would he risk losing it all?

The police may also have contributed to framing Vincent and planting evidence against him in his flat.

http://fjlathome2.blogspot.com/2011/01/vincent-tabak-may-have-been-framed.html

I notice that in this current Joanna Yeates case police appear to have been advised by Professor David Wilson, the criminologist who is so foten used by Murdoch's Tory press, who has often stated that he advises his students when analysing a crime scene that it is important to go by the superficial appearance of evidence available and not bother about motive.

 What dangerous advice, and what an unimaginative outlook; possibly left over from his early Prison Warden days ( which is how Professor David Wilson began in the criminal justice system). He's a poor shadow of the wonderful Doctor Joseph Bell, Sir Conan Doyle's model for his Sherlock Holmes, who is reputed to have stated that the police are ( were) so "shallow and incompetent, and the system so riddled with corruption and hypocrisy, that as a result the murderers they do catch are scarcely even worthy of the name."

 Unless they are simply trying to make use of partial traces of DNA which could have been left there by Jo when she visited him.

 Police are reported to have been visiting Vincent's flat as soon as the investigation began, before ruling him out. ( The Sun Newspaper ( Murdoch) reports here that Vincent felt he was under suspicion in the early days after the murder of Joanna Yeates; in fact he never felt such a thing. He thought he was not.)

Why then did the police suddenly start focusing on him again so late in the day- on the basis of an anonymous phone call to a TV station that has turned out to have been malicious and insubstantial?It can't have been on account of forensic evidence discovered, because police have (purportedly) told newspapers that before the anonymous phone call to the TV station they had "hit a wall" in the case.

Some people are suggesting that police might have planted forensic evidence in the flat Vincent Tabak rented from Mr Jefferies in order to frame him, too. From a purely logical point of view that does seem quite possible, doesn't it?


COMMENT: I have placed this rather interesting post for the simple reason Tony Gosling who has a local radio station was contacted by the police at the time of Jo Yeates murder and TOLD not to speculate on this subject.
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=20088&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30

The Lost Honour of Chris Jefferies

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1 January, 2011 by Tim Moore

Christopher Jefferies

A curious, but not unpredictable, aspect in the reporting of the ongoing investigation into the murder of Joanna Yeates, is the characterisation of suspect Christopher Jefferies. As coverage continued on 31 December, the Attorney General Dominic Grieve issued a rare warning to the press that its coverage of the case must remain fair

Clearly, we are considering what I have seen in the newspapers today and we will try to take such action, and it is right to ensure that the course of justice is not in any way impeded.

Christopher Jefferies, aged 65, was Jo Yeates’s landlord and lives in a flat on the floor above her. Insufficient to fill the column inches of Christmas holiday newspapers, The Sun has become the most notable of Britain’s dailies to further characterise the retired schoolmaster. A report accompanying a photography of Jefferies in the 31 December edition began:

THIS is Joanna Yeates murder suspect Chris Jefferies – sporting the wispy blue-rinse hairdo that saw him branded “strange” by school pupils he taught.

The Sun did not hesitate to quote the unsubstantiated opinions of “weird-looking” Jefferies’ former pupils in the same day’s edition, carrying unsourced quotes about his character such as, “He was very flamboyant. We were convinced he was gay…You didn’t want him to come near you. He was very unkempt and had dirty fingernails. He was weird.” The article goes on to report,

Another student told how groups of up to ten pupils were invited to Jefferies’ home.  The mum of two, who was a 16-year-old boarder at £28,000-a-year Clifton in the 1980s, recalled: “The evenings would take place towards the end of the week, normally a Friday.”

The use of such descriptions, accompanied with opinions on character, are designed to make the suspect the Other – Other to the target reader and Other from what is considered “normal behaviour” by society.  The quotes above suggest Jefferies to be a homosexual and have an unhealthy attraction towards adolescents, which in turn casts him as criminal as well as deploying ugly stereotypes relating to homosexuality and paedophilia.  The result is that Jefferies’ eccentricities are deployed to paint him as different in opposition to the innocent and concerned reader, and therefore not just suspect, but somehow guilty of Jo Yeates’s murder.
Samira Ahmed, presenter and reporter at Channel 4 News had recognised the problematic nature of such reporting. On Twitter, she wrote the following expressing her personal concern about the reporting of the Yeates case in the press and broadcast media:

Channel 4 News sought to dispel the negative characterisation of Jefferies, quoting a named former colleague Richard Bland who said, “A lot of people have said he was eccentric and in a sense I suppose he was…but in a sense all school teachers are eccentric, because eccentricities are developed partly as a way of protecting one’s own inner self from being on show all the time.”  Despite this, Channel 4 News had also failed to stick to “name, age, profession and address” by 31 December, reporting in an online article, “Local people have described Mr Jefferies as a ‘nutty professor type’” adding to the Othering of Jefferies.
Among the criticism of the coverage of the Yeates case, Barrister and former MP Jerry Hayes, writing for Think Politics, goes so far to allege that journalists have “bunged” police officers to extract information on the suspect.  In criticising the smearing of Jefferies by the press, Hayes writes:

We as a society are nervous about those who are different. For reasons that go way back to the persecution of eccentric healers as witches and even into antiquity, we are wary of those who, to our standards, are strange.

For Hayes, the press reporting is symptomatic of a wider social malaise, which he finds indicated further through the “bullying” on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere on the internet. He adds, “We have a great tradition of tolerance in this country. But it is only skin deep. Scratch the surface in our communities and something dark, ugly, menacing is lurks. It is fear.”
Hayes also writes “If he is charged, British Justice assures him of a fair trial”, yet the caricature of Jefferies that the media have built up will ensure that there cannot be a fair trail, should he be called to such. The coverage has already caused major concerns over the abuse of contempt of court laws, as Jefferies has already been made to look guilty by the press, for being different.
Within the criticism of the reporting of the Yeates case, the comparison has been drawn between the press smearing of Jefferies and the plight of the protagonist in Heinrich Böll’s novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum.  Böll’s novel is set in 1970s West Germany under the fear of  terrorism by the Red Army Faction, while today’s reporting comes under fear of paedophiles and religious extremists, as Hayes identifies.  Katharina Blum’s life and the most tenuous personal connections are probed and exploited for headlines in the tabloid newspaper featured in Böll’s novel, while in 2010 and 2011 reporters travel to Bristol  to speak to neighbours and track down former pupils of Jefferies; their prejudices of the suspect, supposedly innocent until proven guilty, become newsworthy fact.  At the time of writing, we don’t know what role – if any – Jefferies played in the murder of Jo Yeates, but in Böll’s novel Katharina is found to be innocent; she and the man she had just met had no connection with the bank robbery the police were investigating. The point of Böll’s novel is not only to demonstrate the violence and corruption fueled by social fear and paranoia, nor only to demonstrate the contempt or hypocrisy of the media in its quest for headlines to satisfy the bottom line. Böll’s novel (as well as Volker Schlöndorff and Magharethe von Trotta’s vivid film adaptation of the novel, which Böll was involved in), demonstrates the destruction of a life  – Blum’s – through the hounding of the media, the complicity of the police and the resulting public mob reaction she experiences.
Böll’s novel was written before the age of the internet, and Grieve and Hayes indicate of a new challenge to fair reporting and protecting those suspected of crime or awaiting trial. Grieve said

Newspapers are under a legal obligation, indeed all media is under a legal obligation, in fact everybody who puts something on the internet is under a legal obligation, to observe the principles of the Contempt of Court Act.

If any internet user, be it a blogger or a user of a social networking or microblogging site, is obliged to follow the law in the Contempt of Court Act, how should bad or unfair reporting be challenged? How much room is there to repeat unfair remarks, as presented above? Who is held to account when a certain view is repeated or relayed by a large group of people (such as through the recent #IAmSpartacus Twitter Joke Trial hashtag)? How will the competition between print media, broadcast media and the internet (amid the now-perennial worries about the death of newspapers) affect the way crimes are reported?  The law around contempt of court not only needs to be clarified, but good practice needs to be agreed, demonstrated and promoted.

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