The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies (2014) s01e01 Episode Script
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(ALARM) (RADIO) ".
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boys leave school unable to read properly.
It's a national scandal.
" "Certainly it's a national priority.
" Yea, unto thee .
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thy name also (DOORBELL) On the radio they said it would just be a light dusting.
Turns out half the roads in Bedminster and Northfield are closed.
Not to mention Bishopston, Medland, Totterdown, Seamills.
More exam papers, is it? ~ Thank you.
~ And a parcel.
Something nice? Mind your footing on the way out.
See you tomorrow.
That is the olives and the goats cheese.
And some sourdough bread too, please, Janine.
~ We've run out, I'm afraid, Christopher.
~ Already? ~ It's a quarter past nine.
~ I know.
The sourdough bread stampede has preceded me.
Christmas choccie.
And just a reminder to everyone else that next week in regards to the possible charitable cause for next year's summer party, we have a representative from the Salvation Army coming in to talk to us.
(SPEAKS FRENCH) .
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au naturel pas .
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deus tu dotre pas et artificiele.
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sur au naturel.
Pas au Resembles nothing less than ghettos.
With totally inadequate provision for collection, recycling and waste management.
RADIO: "Today's match against perhaps the oldest" .
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slow it down.
Slightly harder, Chris.
".
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and all the action.
" Erm, heading out? Gonna grab a quick Nando's.
~ Did the plumber come? Everything get sorted out? ~ Yeah.
Thank you.
Anything else, then, do let me know.
~ Oh, Mr Jefferies.
~ Erm, Chris, erm, please.
Chris.
I wonder if you'd mind if we did a little work down there in the flowerbed.
In the spring.
~ What do you have in mind? ~ Some potted plants? Maybe a herb garden? We'll do it properly, I promise.
We're both landscape architects.
Shouldn't be a problem.
You're not going to present me with an enormous bill.
No, of course not.
Have a good night.
What is a Nando when it's at home? ~ It's a chicken, a piri-piri chicken restaurant.
~ It's really nice.
~ Yeah, it's good.
~ Well, have a wonderful evening.
~ Thanks.
~ See you.
~ Night.
(PIANO MUSIC) (ALARM) RADIO: ".
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that story as Britain prepared for a perfect ice storm.
That's the sort of cliche of the day, isn't it, really?" (DOORBELL) I don't suppose you've got any jump leads.
No.
Erm, have you tried the Tennesons in flat three? Er, no.
They're away.
Oh, what about Vincent in flat two? He seems like a jump leady sort of person.
Don't know him.
Goodness.
He's your neighbour.
I'll come and introduce you.
Why don't you - Actually, don't.
~ I'll just go and get a coat.
~ That'll be great.
Thank you, Chris.
Right.
~ I put money on it.
~ What? White Christmas.
Mind your footing here.
~ Christopher, hey.
~ Vincent.
Sorry to trouble you.
We were just wondering if you had any jump leads.
I'm sorry, I don't know the Dutch word.
Oh, you mean the thing to start a car? ~ Yup.
~ No.
I'm sorry.
Well, anyway, this is your neighbour Greg Reardon.
~ Hey.
~ From flat one.
He lives with his girlfriend Jo.
~ Oh, this is Tanja.
My girlfriend.
~ Hi.
How do you do? ~ Nice to meet you.
~ Hi, Chris.
~ Hello, Tanja.
~ So ~ OK.
Cheers.
~ Cheers.
Maybe Peter Stanley might know something.
OK.
Turn her over.
(ENGINE STARTS) Yes! ~ Mate, thank you so much.
~ Keep her ticking over for about 15 minutes.
Better than that.
I'm taking her all the way to Sheffield.
~ That'll do it.
~ I'm away for the weekend.
Thank you so much.
~ Drive carefully.
~ Cheers.
Thanks.
~ OK, Chris.
~ Thank you, Peter.
TV: .
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inspired from Americans across the pond.
But she's back, she's ready to tour and she's playing in Bristol tonight.
" (LAUGHTER) Hello? (MUTED VOICES) Hello? (GATE CLOSES) (ENGINE REVS) (DOORBELL) ~ Christopher.
~ Yes.
Good morning.
I'm sorry to disturb.
I've got a few problems getting my car up the slope.
I wondered if you could perhaps give me a push.
Thank you, Vincent.
You are very kind.
Don't mention it.
What are neighbours for? Do you know, we really Come on, admit it, Chris.
You've been glued to it for weeks.
~ I assure you - ~ He doesn't have a television.
~ Yes, he does.
Until this conversation, I hadn't even heard of Strictly Come Dancing.
I can see it.
It's over there.
~ Oh! Oh, no, that's not a television.
It's a monitor.
~ Monitor? On which I play my videos.
~ You can't be serious.
~ No-one watches videos any more.
~ Or DVDs.
~ Of what? Of - Of classic French cinema mostly.
So I can practice my French for my degree.
You'd need a magnifying glass to watch anything on that.
Well, I just move up close.
How close? As close as is necessary.
No, I think you should all go home.
Oh, Christopher.
~ We're having such a lovely evening.
~ We've got the cheesecake.
Thank you.
Please have some more.
~ No, I can't.
I can't.
~ It'll be no good tomorrow.
(CHORAL SINGING) (BELLS PEEL) (WHISPERED PRAYERS) (SPRAYING) (DOORBELL) Oh, hi, Chris.
Everything all right? I noticed I got a missed call from you at midnight last night.
It's Jo.
We can't find her.
She didn't go with you to Sheffield? No.
She stayed behind.
I got back last night.
The hall light was on.
The cat was really hungry like he hadn't been fed.
I rang Jo's mobile.
It's in the pocket of her coat.
Then I found her rucksack and in that her glasses, her purse and keys.
It's all just so unlike her.
Well, maybe she stayed with friends.
Erm, it's still early so not outside the realm of possibility that, well, she had a late night and hasn't woken up yet.
That's what I'm hoping.
Er, well, erm, anything that I can do, please let me know.
~ I'm gonna go out now and look.
~ You, er, look? Look where? Anywhere.
Just look for her.
(DOORBELL) ~ Christopher Jefferies? ~ Yes.
Could you confirm for us that you're the landlord of this building.
I am the landlord of two properties within the building not of the whole building.
We were given your name and told you had keys to all the premises here.
As Secretary and Chairman of the management company of the building, that is correct.
I do keep a copy of all the keys here, yes.
Well, er, at some point in the next couple of days we are going to need you to help us with access to those premises.
Please.
Come again? Please.
~ Please.
~ Please.
Good morning, Janine.
Morning.
See? 9:01, I'm leaving nothing to chance.
Some sourdough bread, please, Janine.
I'm sorry.
We've sold out already.
What?! Your face! You're the first one in.
(LAUGHS) There you go.
Christopher Jefferies? We agreed three o'clock to collect the keys.
You are extremely late.
~ Sorry.
~ We've also come to ask a couple of quick questions if you don't mind.
We've been taking statements from all your neighbours.
Mr Stanley said that on the Friday evening you both help Mr Reardon jump start his car.
Correct.
And that was the last time you saw Joanna Yeates? No.
The last time I saw Jo was the day before.
The 16th.
When I checked to see if the leak in her bathroom had been repaired satisfactorily.
You didn't see her on the Friday at all? No.
How long has Miss Yeates been a tenant? ~ Just over two months.
~ No complaints from your side? ~ On the contrary.
~ How would you describe her character? Very friendly.
An attractive person.
Not someone who'd be likely to just disappear? No.
But then I can't claim to know her well and, erm, everyone is full of surprises, aren't they? And contradictions.
How long is it that she has been missing? Four days.
Would you just give this a quick look over for a review? You're the first English teachers I've taken a statement from.
You'll have to forgive the bad spelling.
May I at least correct the spelling? You can reach us on this number.
Should anything else come to you.
(PHONE RINGS) Hello? What are you doing? I'm working my way through Pierre et Jean.
In French.
If you weren't so obstinate and owned a television, you would see for yourself? ~ See what? ~ Your house is all over the news.
The girl's parents are doing a press conference now.
For me, it's not the end.
It's what's happened to her in between.
I stood outside having a cigarette It was cold and I was thinking of my daughter.
Maybe she's out there somewhere by herself in the snow.
Frozen.
It breaks me, how no-one's there to hold her.
We still want her back.
We still want to hold her at least one last time.
"I just want her back.
" Erm, yes, you gave me your number in case I had any questions or in case anything occurred to me in conjunction with the disappearance of Joanna Yeates.
Erm, something has occurred to me.
When I came home on Friday the 17th of December.
Erm, is - is - is this really necessary? I was walking through the gates of the main driveway when I heard someone leaving by the side gate on the other side of the, erm, er, building.
~ Will he knock anything over? ~ She'll be fine.
Someone? One person or two? Erm, it's hard to say.
Erm, erm, it's more likely to have been two since I heard voices.
Could one of those voices have been that of a woman? Erm, it certainly could have been but I - I can't say definitively.
Three 'I's.
Def-ini-tively.
(VOICES DROWN OUT TV) Christopher.
Christopher.
The, erm, They - They've just found her.
~ What? ~ Your tenant.
You - You did say she was your tenant, didn't you? "A couple were enjoying a Christmas morning walk with their dogs when they found a woman's body.
It was covered by snow.
But not, apparently, hidden.
The woman's body was found near a golf course on the western side of the Avon Gorge, three miles from the flat from the flat in Clifton Joanna Yeates shared with boyfriend Greg Reardon.
She disappeared after Friday night drinks with friends eight days ago.
Police think she did go back to the flat because when Greg Reardon got back from visiting family on Sunday" Christopher Jefferies? ~ Yes.
~ Sky News.
We've been informed you gave a statement to the police saying you saw people leaving on 17th December and that one of them was Joanna Yeates.
I don't know where you got your information from, it is a serious distortion of what I said to the police and I have no further comment to make as that, no doubt, will be distorted.
I made some comment which was very, very, very much vaguer than that.
Are you able to give us any detail of what you told them? I'm afraid not, no.
Anything that I have said, I had said to the police, and I am not prepared to make any comments to the media.
OK? So you didn't see her that evening, then? I certainly cannot say that I saw Joanna Yeates that evening, no.
Thank you very much.
This way, Mr Jefferies.
~ Mr Jefferies.
~ Mr Jefferies.
I'm sorry, I have no desire to give you my side of the story.
Nor to set any record, as you put it.
(MOBILE RINGS) Erm, no, I - wait.
What? Charles? "I have nothing to say to the meeeedia.
" ~ What? ~ I salute you for treating Sky News with the same withering contempt you saved for us second rate pupils all those years ago.
This is outrageous.
How did he know the contents of a confidential statement I had given to the police? The police must have leaked it to them.
I know.
I know.
But listen, say it again for me? ~ What? ~ I have nothing to say to the meeeedia.
Do I really sound like that? ALL MIMIC HIM: Meeedia! Meeedia! Meeeeedia! ~ (KNOCKING) ~ Mr Jefferies, it's the police.
We need your help.
(TUTS) (KNOCKING) Mr Jefferies! ~ (KNOCKING) ~ Mr Jefferies! (KNOCKING) ~ Christopher Jefferies? ~ Erm yes.
You're under arrest on suspicion of the murder of Joanna Yeates.
I'm - I'm - I'm what? Wha - On - On - On what grounds? You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
Do you understand? What evidence do - do you have? ~ Er ~ that'll be explained to you at the police station.
Please get dressed.
May I make a phone call? No, sir.
You can do that at the station.
Please get dressed.
Get dressed, please, sir.
~ Better duck down just in case.
~ Of - Of what? Of what? A few minutes ago, just after 0700 hours, police attended an address in Canning road, Clifton, and arrested a 65-year-old man ~ Is it the landlord? ~ .
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a 65-year-old man on suspicion of the murder - It is Christopher Jefferies? ~ He has been taken into custody ~ (SHOUTING) At the police station ~ (SHOUTING) ~ At the police station where the - ~ Is it Christopher Jefferies? ~ (SHOUTING) OK.
So, Chris, the first thing we're gonna do is take your picture.
Just come through here.
If you'll just sit down on the chair there, please.
Yeah, on the chair there.
That's it.
OK? If I could ask you to look straight into the camera.
OK.
Straight into the camera.
Thank you.
And Yep.
That's it.
Great.
OK, thank you.
Can you just stand up for me? Yep.
That's it.
Yep.
OK.
Now we're gonna take your fingerprints, sir.
It's probably not what you're expecting.
It's probably not as you expect.
We don't use ink any more.
Just here on the left.
That's it.
OK.
Good.
~ Right, so, are you right or left handed? ~ I'm - I'm right handed.
OK.
Give me your right hand.
Thank you.
Just pop that one on there like that.
We'll start with your thumb.
Then roll it.
That's it.
This one here.
That's fine.
Good.
And this one.
OK, so if you can just Go down here and just here on the left, this room on this side.
~ Yep.
~ If you can come in here, then.
If you take a seat on that chair.
We're gonna take a DNA sample.
That involves taking a swab from the inside of your cheek.
And, er, I'm gonna use this swab to take that sample.
OK, so if you can open your mouth for me.
That's it.
Thank you.
~ Small abrasion on the right forearm.
~ What are you doing? Looking for signs of a struggle.
I struggled with my own car door whilst unpacking the shopping.
Several pin pricks on the fingertips.
Those are chilblains.
~ Have you ever suffered from depression? ~ No.
Ever had any suicidal thoughts? Not hitherto, although I dare say the chances are rising by the minute.
Hey, look.
It's the landlord.
They've got him out.
Just through here.
You can change into these.
The interviews will start as soon as your solicitor arrives.
~ I - I don't have a solicitor.
~ One's on his way, apparently.
Very high powered from London.
Chilli con carne or pasta bake.
I beg your pardon.
It's for your lunch.
But it - it's ten in the morning.
Pasta bake.
Pasta bake.
(DOOR LOCKS) Yes, I forgot that you had trained as a lawyer.
I was never any good but at least I met a few of them who were.
And they all swear by this firm of lawyers.
They represent the most violent and vicious murderers in London, so you're in good hands.
~ Thank you.
~ Well, as your laziest former pupil it's the least I could do.
Might I ask you another favour? Of course.
Erm, would you ring my gym and tell my personal trainer that I probably won't be able to make our three o'clock session today? If he's seen the news I'm not sure he'll be expecting you.
Oh.
Am I on the news? Christopher, there's nothing else on the news.
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and I am not prepared to make any comment" (DOOR UNLOCKS) Mr Jefferies.
Hi.
My name is Paul Okebu.
I work with Bambos Tsiattalou at The Stokoe Partnership.
Er - Er - Who? I'm here to get you out.
And will stay as long as it takes.
I am not leaving here without you.
~ Thank you.
~ Shall we? ~ It seems you have influential friends.
~ I do.
My name's Paul Connor.
I'm a Detective Constable.
And I'm from the Major Crime Investigation Unit here in Bristol.
~ This is my colleague.
~ Yes, thank you.
My name is also Paul.
Paul Batty.
I am also a Detective Constable.
And I'm based in the same unit Paul works.
Your legal representative, your solicitor is also present.
Would you like to introduce yourself? Oh, yeah, my name is also Paul.
Okebu.
Well, so everyone's called Paul.
Not quite everyone.
And your full name.
Christopher Jonathan Edward Jefferies.
~ Date of birth.
~ 9th of January, 1945.
What would you prefer me to call you during this interview? Christopher or Mr Jefferies? I'm perfectly happy with either.
Which ever you feel more comfortable with.
I'd like to call you Christopher.
Is that OK? OK.
How many flats are there in the building? ~ Seven.
~ How many do you own? Three.
You live at number five.
Yes.
And you also own flats number one and two.
That's correct.
Including the flat lived in by Joanna Yeates.
She lived in flat one.
Yes.
Has Joanna Yeates ever been to your flat? No.
I don't think, to the best of my knowledge, she has ever been in my flat.
How would you describe Greg to us, then? As as, erm, pleasant, easy-going, erm, slightly bluff person perhaps.
~ Bluff? ~ Yeah, yes.
Bluff.
I don't know the word.
You don't know the word bluff? Oh! Gracious.
A cheerful, straightforward, unvarnished South Yorkshireman.
~ Right.
~ I mean, I wouldn't describe him as intellectually sophisticated necessarily.
But obviously an extremely competent professional man.
Erm, by that I mean he's not an academic and I have spent my whole life with academics.
So you're saying he's not an academic.
I'm saying he's not someone who strikes me as having primarily academic interests.
Erm, rather, I think, a fairly sporty sort of person.
On the evening of Friday 17th, you helped Greg start his car.
With the use of jump leads.
~ Correct.
~ Did you ask where he was going? He volunteered he was going to Sheffield.
There was a mention of a family event.
And was the subject of Joanna Yeates mentioned at all? Not at all.
It wasn't mentioned by me or anyone else.
We were concerned with getting the car started, not learning anything about who was doing what or for what reason.
So what was your understanding of what Joanna was doing? I had no understanding of what she was doing because her name didn't arise.
~ Did you wonder at all what she was doing? ~ No.
If I had any assumption whatsoever, it might have been that she may as well have been going with him.
But it wasn't something I thought about at all.
In your statement you said you then went to the gym.
That's right, yes.
And then went home.
Yes and I'm pretty sure that would have been between half past eight and nine o'clock.
OK and that's when you mentioned in your statement then becoming aware of something else.
Yes.
What you thought was the sound of a conversation between two people in the dark.
~ A low conversation, yes.
~ Low? Yes.
Very low.
Erm, to the extent that I cannot be certain that it actually happened which is why I was absolutely horrified to be told ~ that it had been stated on the media that I had ~ seen ~ these people.
And then you went into your flat.
Yes.
OK.
I want you to concentrate on that night of December the 17th.
Did you have contact with anyone else that night? No.
Did you leave your flat again, ~ at all, during the course of the night? ~ No.
Did you leave your flat to go into the garden? No.
~ Did you leave your flat to go into another flat in the premises? ~ No.
~ Did you leave your flat to go anywhere? ~ No.
Did you leave your flat to go to Joanna Yeates's flat? No, DC Connor, I did not.
I went to bed.
something which, given the hour, it's almost midnight, we could all profitably do now.
(DOOR UNLOCKS) You did great.
Based on what I heard today, they can't keep you much longer.
They haven't got enough to charge you.
They haven't got anything.
At all.
It might be an idea to ease back on the, er On - On what? School teacheryness.
Oh.
Sorry.
Yes, erm, old habits die hard.
Well, see you tomorrow.
Melissa.
Melissa? ~ Morning.
~ Morning.
What model's your Volvo? It's an S40.
And is that the only car you own? No.
I have a second car.
A Chrysler Neon which, erm, I look after for a friend who lives abroad.
OK.
When the police came to arrest you yesterday morning, do you remember a conversation with them about your car? They asked, "Would you please give me the keys to your car?" And I immediately gave them the Chrysler keys.
Right.
But you didn't offer the police the keys for the Volvo.
No, I did not.
~ Why not? ~ Because I assumed it was the keys for the Chrysler that they were interested in.
You did not deliberately not offer the keys to the Volvo? No, I did not.
Have you cleaned the inside of either of those cars, the Volvo or the Chrysler since teatime? 6pm on December the 17th? Er, no.
Have you got anyone else to clean the inside or outside of those cars? No.
OK.
Paul, have you got anything else or not? (WHISPERING) Oh, yeah.
Right.
Time now is 9:32 and I am suspending the interview.
~ This is normal? ~ Yeah.
Perfectly normal.
For an extension to hold you, they need a magistrate.
~ It's cold.
Erm, you might want this.
~ Thank you.
Oh, no, no, no.
Thank you.
I'm not having you appear anywhere in a blanket.
Here.
But thank you.
As her landlord, Mr Jefferies was both known to the victim and he had keys to the property.
He also knew the victim was alone that night.
(COUGHS) Significantly, before his arrest, Mr Jefferies gave the police two conflicting statements so we would like the opportunity to continue to hold and question him for a further 24 hours.
Granted.
Why is this being brought up now? Do not bring this to me now.
It's very underhand and deceitful.
Twenty years I've worked in criminal law.
I have never come across anything like this.
Do you know who Glenis Carruthers was? ~ Er, no.
~ Right.
She was a young woman murdered decades ago in Clifton.
Unsolved, apparently looked a bit like Jo.
They told me they wanted to question you in connection with that case too.
(LAUGHTER) I'd like you to describe your character to us.
How you see yourself.
I mean, does anything upset you? When was the last time you got angry with someone, for example? I tend not to get violently angry.
If I get angry, it's more snappily angry than anything else.
And how would you be when faced with a confrontation? I would certainly wish in some way to defuse the situation and not do anything to allow that situation to get out of control.
I do not like arguments.
Arguments make me feel uncomfortable.
Have you ever been violent towards anyone? No.
Certainly not.
Do you take any illegal drugs? Do you take heroin? No.
Do you take cocaine? No.
OK.
What about drink? Erm, I habitually have the equivalent of .
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half a bottle of wine with my supper.
When was the last time you were drunk? (LAUGHS) I don't think I've been drunk since, erm .
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er university when I was an undergraduate at about the age of 19.
This would have been in Christmas That was the year I was born.
Maybe that's why he was drunk.
Are you in a relationship at the present time? ~ No.
~ When was the last time you were in a relationship? ~ If you mean a sexual relationship? ~ Yes.
I have, erm never had a .
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permanent or long-lasting sexual relationship.
(SNIFFS) ~ Never? ~ No.
So, Christopher .
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when was the last time you had sex? You don't have to answer that, Christopher? You're a single man.
~ Mm-hm.
~ Living alone.
Yes.
What interests you sexually? ~ Is that relevant to this inquiry? ~ I'd like to know.
When your client looks at Joanna Yeates what does he see? I saw a young woman.
I certainly had no sexual interest in her.
No sexual feeling for her whatsoever.
Or indeed, for Greg, for that matter.
If that's what you're thinking.
(RAUCOUS SINGING) (FIREWORKS) (SINGING OF AULD LANG SYNE) TV: "So far, the retired teacher Chris Jefferies is the only named suspect and officers have been questioning him since he was arrested yesterday morning.
Police forensic teams have been searching Jefferies' flat in Bristol and the one below which he rented to Jo Yeates and her boyfriend.
Our correspondent John Kay has been following the day's events.
" "New Year's Eve.
But at this Victorian mansion block tonight the sombre search goes on.
Exactly two weeks after Jo Yeates was last seen alive" ~ Morning, Christopher.
~ Good morning, Paul.
~ Happy new year.
~ Mm.
Happy new year.
Food any better? Erm, yes.
Muesli.
And in a proper bowl too but the bed, hm, until two days ago, if asked, I would have described that as a window ledge.
Well Today's the last day they can hold you.
By 9pm tonight they either have to charge you or release you.
Right now, they haven't laid a glove on you.
They've got nothing.
Nothing.
If it were a boxing match, we'd be going to the last round and they'd need a knockout.
So be prepared.
Things could get a bit rough today.
Hm.
I'd better finish my muesli, then.
Did you go to Jo's flat on the night of the 17th of December? No.
I did not.
Did you go to that flat because you knew she was gonna be there alone? No, I did not.
You ever been out in the middle of the night? ~ In your car? ~ No.
Never? Never, ever? Well, I suppose it is just conceivable that I might have gone out to get some petrol.
But I, erm, certainly don't recall doing that.
OK.
So what you're saying to us now is that it is conceivable that you may have gone out in the night of the 17th, 18th of December? You're not being very specific, are you? And yet you described yourself as a meticulous person.
If I went out in a car later that evening, which I have no recollection of at all, I cannot conceive of any reason for doing so except to get some petrol.
And I think you'll find I said methodical.
And my recollection was that petrol was purchased during the day ~ on the 17th and - ~ Officer, yeah, I'm sorry to interrupt.
You're asking him to recall a specific incident of more than two weeks ago.
Which you've had an opportunity to look at the papers in relation to which my client hasn't had the opportunity to consider himself.
Do you have any evidence Mr Jefferies went out to buy petrol that night? No.
Then I fail to see the purpose of the question.
The purpose of the question is quite simple, Christopher.
It's that you haven't mentioned to us at all until this point during these interviews that you have potentially gone out during the course of that night.
I am trying to assist you in suggesting that the only conceivable reason for me going out in a car would be to purchase some petrol.
Mr Tabak has been spoken to.
Erm Vincent - Erm, Vincent Tabak? Yes, Vincent Tabak called us from Holland.
And he says that the position of the car, the Volvo, was different on the morning of the 18th.
The Saturday when you asked him for assistance, to where it was on the 17th.
The day before.
Where - Where was it before on the 17th? Well, he said it was facing in.
In its normal position.
Well Why ever would he say that? It wasn't.
So, tell us, then.
The position of the car when Vincent Tabak came out to assist you on the 18th? Well, it was - it was facing out.
Which is why he was able to push from the back and I was able to drive straight out.
Look, Christopher, we need to find out what happened to Jo.
Of course.
We need to find out what happened in that flat.
~ Well, of course.
~ And we need to get the truth.
Well, of course.
Now, the scene at Jo's flat suggested that she'd not been home long before she was assaulted.
Now, if you had any involvement whatsoever in that assault .
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now is the time to tell us.
I've told you again and again that I have not the slightest involvement.
You're an intelligent man.
I mean, you'll have gathered by now that we're making enquiries into your background in detail.
~ Yes.
~ Please, don't make the mistake of ignoring the fact that we are also intelligent people.
We have experts and scientists examining the scene.
~ Examining your car.
~ Of course.
~ Now, you've described yourself as meticulous - ~ Matter of fact.
~ Methodical.
~ Well, they too are meticulous, matter of fact and methodical.
So if you've had any involvement then you tell us.
Now.
As I have already said to my solicitor .
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I am 100% innocent of any involvement in the disappearance of Jo.
100%.
(WHISPERING) OK.
Time now is 13:09 and we will, this time, suspend the interview.
We'll come back to you.
It's outrageous.
He has sat here for three days listening to this unsubstantiated rubbish.
He's answered every question, .
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behaved with exceptional good grace.
And dignity.
You have nothing.
No evidence, no forensics, no motive.
No proof.
From the first moment I saw him, I knew he was innocent.
All you have to do is look at him.
I mean, how much do you weigh, Christopher? Nine stone? Ten? Yeah, I mean, he hasn't got the strength to have done it.
Suffocate a fit, young landscape gardener putting up a fight? Carry her body to the car.
I mean, it's madness, the whole thing.
You should know, from your training, that no man his age with his profile would kill a fit, young woman with his hands.
He'd used an object, a weapon, to compensate for his lack of strength.
And there was no weapon.
Why? Because it wasn't him.
Are you all right? Yes, I think so.
How about you? They're here.
I know, erm Papillon.
Come on.
In you come .
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Papillon.
Some outdoor shoes.
~ Size? ~ Seven and a half.
Anything else? Erm, some black jeans.
32 waist.
An electric razor? ~ Can't it be normal wet razors? ~ Not if I'm to use them.
And some hairspray.
Elnett.
"Extra hold".
I really don't know why I can't go myself.
Because you'll get lynched, that's why.
Who'd recognise me? Christopher, after Elizabeth Windsor, yours is about the most recognisable face in the country.
Of course You haven't seen them.
Seen what? ~ The papers.
~ Well, no.
I was in custody, erm, remember.
Why are you looking at me like that? What? Come on in.
Would you like me to stay with you? Whatever for? You're frightening me now.
I really can't see what would be so bad.
I tell you what, I'll be just outside.
It's monstrous.
Erm I'm afraid the television wasn't much better.
What about the school? You said that the .
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headmaster had said some nice things.
I could do with some cheering up.
"I think it's important that we all recognise that nobody has been charged with anything as yet.
But I can confirm that Mr Jefferies taught English at Clifton college for a number of years.
He retired in 2001 which is nearly ten years ago now.
And I've been headmaster here for six years and I've certainly never met Mr Jefferies.
There would be very few people on the teaching staff and pupils who will have ever met Mr Jefferies.
Because it is a number of years ago.
And although he lived locally, he had no formal contact with the College since he retired.
" ~ "Do you know if he left - " ~ What's he talking about? ~ "Was there any disciplinary - " ~ No-one remembers me.
I worked there for 34 years.
Half Half of my colleagues are still there.
I'm sure he was put under terrible pressure.
(KNOCK AT DOOR) Are you all right, Christopher? Anything I can get you? No, thank you.
I'm fine.
Good night, then.
And why would I want to put my head above the parapet? And suffer all those vile attacks? You wouldn't need to if you made one or two changes.
It wold be sending out the wrong signals to have you turning up to do examinations with students.
Because I would murder them?! Louis Charalambous is an expert in defamation and privacy.
I don't think there's anyone better.
Let's as they say do it.
.
boys leave school unable to read properly.
It's a national scandal.
" "Certainly it's a national priority.
" Yea, unto thee .
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thy name also (DOORBELL) On the radio they said it would just be a light dusting.
Turns out half the roads in Bedminster and Northfield are closed.
Not to mention Bishopston, Medland, Totterdown, Seamills.
More exam papers, is it? ~ Thank you.
~ And a parcel.
Something nice? Mind your footing on the way out.
See you tomorrow.
That is the olives and the goats cheese.
And some sourdough bread too, please, Janine.
~ We've run out, I'm afraid, Christopher.
~ Already? ~ It's a quarter past nine.
~ I know.
The sourdough bread stampede has preceded me.
Christmas choccie.
And just a reminder to everyone else that next week in regards to the possible charitable cause for next year's summer party, we have a representative from the Salvation Army coming in to talk to us.
(SPEAKS FRENCH) .
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au naturel pas .
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deus tu dotre pas et artificiele.
.
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sur au naturel.
Pas au Resembles nothing less than ghettos.
With totally inadequate provision for collection, recycling and waste management.
RADIO: "Today's match against perhaps the oldest" .
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slow it down.
Slightly harder, Chris.
".
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and all the action.
" Erm, heading out? Gonna grab a quick Nando's.
~ Did the plumber come? Everything get sorted out? ~ Yeah.
Thank you.
Anything else, then, do let me know.
~ Oh, Mr Jefferies.
~ Erm, Chris, erm, please.
Chris.
I wonder if you'd mind if we did a little work down there in the flowerbed.
In the spring.
~ What do you have in mind? ~ Some potted plants? Maybe a herb garden? We'll do it properly, I promise.
We're both landscape architects.
Shouldn't be a problem.
You're not going to present me with an enormous bill.
No, of course not.
Have a good night.
What is a Nando when it's at home? ~ It's a chicken, a piri-piri chicken restaurant.
~ It's really nice.
~ Yeah, it's good.
~ Well, have a wonderful evening.
~ Thanks.
~ See you.
~ Night.
(PIANO MUSIC) (ALARM) RADIO: ".
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that story as Britain prepared for a perfect ice storm.
That's the sort of cliche of the day, isn't it, really?" (DOORBELL) I don't suppose you've got any jump leads.
No.
Erm, have you tried the Tennesons in flat three? Er, no.
They're away.
Oh, what about Vincent in flat two? He seems like a jump leady sort of person.
Don't know him.
Goodness.
He's your neighbour.
I'll come and introduce you.
Why don't you - Actually, don't.
~ I'll just go and get a coat.
~ That'll be great.
Thank you, Chris.
Right.
~ I put money on it.
~ What? White Christmas.
Mind your footing here.
~ Christopher, hey.
~ Vincent.
Sorry to trouble you.
We were just wondering if you had any jump leads.
I'm sorry, I don't know the Dutch word.
Oh, you mean the thing to start a car? ~ Yup.
~ No.
I'm sorry.
Well, anyway, this is your neighbour Greg Reardon.
~ Hey.
~ From flat one.
He lives with his girlfriend Jo.
~ Oh, this is Tanja.
My girlfriend.
~ Hi.
How do you do? ~ Nice to meet you.
~ Hi, Chris.
~ Hello, Tanja.
~ So ~ OK.
Cheers.
~ Cheers.
Maybe Peter Stanley might know something.
OK.
Turn her over.
(ENGINE STARTS) Yes! ~ Mate, thank you so much.
~ Keep her ticking over for about 15 minutes.
Better than that.
I'm taking her all the way to Sheffield.
~ That'll do it.
~ I'm away for the weekend.
Thank you so much.
~ Drive carefully.
~ Cheers.
Thanks.
~ OK, Chris.
~ Thank you, Peter.
TV: .
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inspired from Americans across the pond.
But she's back, she's ready to tour and she's playing in Bristol tonight.
" (LAUGHTER) Hello? (MUTED VOICES) Hello? (GATE CLOSES) (ENGINE REVS) (DOORBELL) ~ Christopher.
~ Yes.
Good morning.
I'm sorry to disturb.
I've got a few problems getting my car up the slope.
I wondered if you could perhaps give me a push.
Thank you, Vincent.
You are very kind.
Don't mention it.
What are neighbours for? Do you know, we really Come on, admit it, Chris.
You've been glued to it for weeks.
~ I assure you - ~ He doesn't have a television.
~ Yes, he does.
Until this conversation, I hadn't even heard of Strictly Come Dancing.
I can see it.
It's over there.
~ Oh! Oh, no, that's not a television.
It's a monitor.
~ Monitor? On which I play my videos.
~ You can't be serious.
~ No-one watches videos any more.
~ Or DVDs.
~ Of what? Of - Of classic French cinema mostly.
So I can practice my French for my degree.
You'd need a magnifying glass to watch anything on that.
Well, I just move up close.
How close? As close as is necessary.
No, I think you should all go home.
Oh, Christopher.
~ We're having such a lovely evening.
~ We've got the cheesecake.
Thank you.
Please have some more.
~ No, I can't.
I can't.
~ It'll be no good tomorrow.
(CHORAL SINGING) (BELLS PEEL) (WHISPERED PRAYERS) (SPRAYING) (DOORBELL) Oh, hi, Chris.
Everything all right? I noticed I got a missed call from you at midnight last night.
It's Jo.
We can't find her.
She didn't go with you to Sheffield? No.
She stayed behind.
I got back last night.
The hall light was on.
The cat was really hungry like he hadn't been fed.
I rang Jo's mobile.
It's in the pocket of her coat.
Then I found her rucksack and in that her glasses, her purse and keys.
It's all just so unlike her.
Well, maybe she stayed with friends.
Erm, it's still early so not outside the realm of possibility that, well, she had a late night and hasn't woken up yet.
That's what I'm hoping.
Er, well, erm, anything that I can do, please let me know.
~ I'm gonna go out now and look.
~ You, er, look? Look where? Anywhere.
Just look for her.
(DOORBELL) ~ Christopher Jefferies? ~ Yes.
Could you confirm for us that you're the landlord of this building.
I am the landlord of two properties within the building not of the whole building.
We were given your name and told you had keys to all the premises here.
As Secretary and Chairman of the management company of the building, that is correct.
I do keep a copy of all the keys here, yes.
Well, er, at some point in the next couple of days we are going to need you to help us with access to those premises.
Please.
Come again? Please.
~ Please.
~ Please.
Good morning, Janine.
Morning.
See? 9:01, I'm leaving nothing to chance.
Some sourdough bread, please, Janine.
I'm sorry.
We've sold out already.
What?! Your face! You're the first one in.
(LAUGHS) There you go.
Christopher Jefferies? We agreed three o'clock to collect the keys.
You are extremely late.
~ Sorry.
~ We've also come to ask a couple of quick questions if you don't mind.
We've been taking statements from all your neighbours.
Mr Stanley said that on the Friday evening you both help Mr Reardon jump start his car.
Correct.
And that was the last time you saw Joanna Yeates? No.
The last time I saw Jo was the day before.
The 16th.
When I checked to see if the leak in her bathroom had been repaired satisfactorily.
You didn't see her on the Friday at all? No.
How long has Miss Yeates been a tenant? ~ Just over two months.
~ No complaints from your side? ~ On the contrary.
~ How would you describe her character? Very friendly.
An attractive person.
Not someone who'd be likely to just disappear? No.
But then I can't claim to know her well and, erm, everyone is full of surprises, aren't they? And contradictions.
How long is it that she has been missing? Four days.
Would you just give this a quick look over for a review? You're the first English teachers I've taken a statement from.
You'll have to forgive the bad spelling.
May I at least correct the spelling? You can reach us on this number.
Should anything else come to you.
(PHONE RINGS) Hello? What are you doing? I'm working my way through Pierre et Jean.
In French.
If you weren't so obstinate and owned a television, you would see for yourself? ~ See what? ~ Your house is all over the news.
The girl's parents are doing a press conference now.
For me, it's not the end.
It's what's happened to her in between.
I stood outside having a cigarette It was cold and I was thinking of my daughter.
Maybe she's out there somewhere by herself in the snow.
Frozen.
It breaks me, how no-one's there to hold her.
We still want her back.
We still want to hold her at least one last time.
"I just want her back.
" Erm, yes, you gave me your number in case I had any questions or in case anything occurred to me in conjunction with the disappearance of Joanna Yeates.
Erm, something has occurred to me.
When I came home on Friday the 17th of December.
Erm, is - is - is this really necessary? I was walking through the gates of the main driveway when I heard someone leaving by the side gate on the other side of the, erm, er, building.
~ Will he knock anything over? ~ She'll be fine.
Someone? One person or two? Erm, it's hard to say.
Erm, erm, it's more likely to have been two since I heard voices.
Could one of those voices have been that of a woman? Erm, it certainly could have been but I - I can't say definitively.
Three 'I's.
Def-ini-tively.
(VOICES DROWN OUT TV) Christopher.
Christopher.
The, erm, They - They've just found her.
~ What? ~ Your tenant.
You - You did say she was your tenant, didn't you? "A couple were enjoying a Christmas morning walk with their dogs when they found a woman's body.
It was covered by snow.
But not, apparently, hidden.
The woman's body was found near a golf course on the western side of the Avon Gorge, three miles from the flat from the flat in Clifton Joanna Yeates shared with boyfriend Greg Reardon.
She disappeared after Friday night drinks with friends eight days ago.
Police think she did go back to the flat because when Greg Reardon got back from visiting family on Sunday" Christopher Jefferies? ~ Yes.
~ Sky News.
We've been informed you gave a statement to the police saying you saw people leaving on 17th December and that one of them was Joanna Yeates.
I don't know where you got your information from, it is a serious distortion of what I said to the police and I have no further comment to make as that, no doubt, will be distorted.
I made some comment which was very, very, very much vaguer than that.
Are you able to give us any detail of what you told them? I'm afraid not, no.
Anything that I have said, I had said to the police, and I am not prepared to make any comments to the media.
OK? So you didn't see her that evening, then? I certainly cannot say that I saw Joanna Yeates that evening, no.
Thank you very much.
This way, Mr Jefferies.
~ Mr Jefferies.
~ Mr Jefferies.
I'm sorry, I have no desire to give you my side of the story.
Nor to set any record, as you put it.
(MOBILE RINGS) Erm, no, I - wait.
What? Charles? "I have nothing to say to the meeeedia.
" ~ What? ~ I salute you for treating Sky News with the same withering contempt you saved for us second rate pupils all those years ago.
This is outrageous.
How did he know the contents of a confidential statement I had given to the police? The police must have leaked it to them.
I know.
I know.
But listen, say it again for me? ~ What? ~ I have nothing to say to the meeeedia.
Do I really sound like that? ALL MIMIC HIM: Meeedia! Meeedia! Meeeeedia! ~ (KNOCKING) ~ Mr Jefferies, it's the police.
We need your help.
(TUTS) (KNOCKING) Mr Jefferies! ~ (KNOCKING) ~ Mr Jefferies! (KNOCKING) ~ Christopher Jefferies? ~ Erm yes.
You're under arrest on suspicion of the murder of Joanna Yeates.
I'm - I'm - I'm what? Wha - On - On - On what grounds? You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
Do you understand? What evidence do - do you have? ~ Er ~ that'll be explained to you at the police station.
Please get dressed.
May I make a phone call? No, sir.
You can do that at the station.
Please get dressed.
Get dressed, please, sir.
~ Better duck down just in case.
~ Of - Of what? Of what? A few minutes ago, just after 0700 hours, police attended an address in Canning road, Clifton, and arrested a 65-year-old man ~ Is it the landlord? ~ .
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a 65-year-old man on suspicion of the murder - It is Christopher Jefferies? ~ He has been taken into custody ~ (SHOUTING) At the police station ~ (SHOUTING) ~ At the police station where the - ~ Is it Christopher Jefferies? ~ (SHOUTING) OK.
So, Chris, the first thing we're gonna do is take your picture.
Just come through here.
If you'll just sit down on the chair there, please.
Yeah, on the chair there.
That's it.
OK? If I could ask you to look straight into the camera.
OK.
Straight into the camera.
Thank you.
And Yep.
That's it.
Great.
OK, thank you.
Can you just stand up for me? Yep.
That's it.
Yep.
OK.
Now we're gonna take your fingerprints, sir.
It's probably not what you're expecting.
It's probably not as you expect.
We don't use ink any more.
Just here on the left.
That's it.
OK.
Good.
~ Right, so, are you right or left handed? ~ I'm - I'm right handed.
OK.
Give me your right hand.
Thank you.
Just pop that one on there like that.
We'll start with your thumb.
Then roll it.
That's it.
This one here.
That's fine.
Good.
And this one.
OK, so if you can just Go down here and just here on the left, this room on this side.
~ Yep.
~ If you can come in here, then.
If you take a seat on that chair.
We're gonna take a DNA sample.
That involves taking a swab from the inside of your cheek.
And, er, I'm gonna use this swab to take that sample.
OK, so if you can open your mouth for me.
That's it.
Thank you.
~ Small abrasion on the right forearm.
~ What are you doing? Looking for signs of a struggle.
I struggled with my own car door whilst unpacking the shopping.
Several pin pricks on the fingertips.
Those are chilblains.
~ Have you ever suffered from depression? ~ No.
Ever had any suicidal thoughts? Not hitherto, although I dare say the chances are rising by the minute.
Hey, look.
It's the landlord.
They've got him out.
Just through here.
You can change into these.
The interviews will start as soon as your solicitor arrives.
~ I - I don't have a solicitor.
~ One's on his way, apparently.
Very high powered from London.
Chilli con carne or pasta bake.
I beg your pardon.
It's for your lunch.
But it - it's ten in the morning.
Pasta bake.
Pasta bake.
(DOOR LOCKS) Yes, I forgot that you had trained as a lawyer.
I was never any good but at least I met a few of them who were.
And they all swear by this firm of lawyers.
They represent the most violent and vicious murderers in London, so you're in good hands.
~ Thank you.
~ Well, as your laziest former pupil it's the least I could do.
Might I ask you another favour? Of course.
Erm, would you ring my gym and tell my personal trainer that I probably won't be able to make our three o'clock session today? If he's seen the news I'm not sure he'll be expecting you.
Oh.
Am I on the news? Christopher, there's nothing else on the news.
".
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and I am not prepared to make any comment" (DOOR UNLOCKS) Mr Jefferies.
Hi.
My name is Paul Okebu.
I work with Bambos Tsiattalou at The Stokoe Partnership.
Er - Er - Who? I'm here to get you out.
And will stay as long as it takes.
I am not leaving here without you.
~ Thank you.
~ Shall we? ~ It seems you have influential friends.
~ I do.
My name's Paul Connor.
I'm a Detective Constable.
And I'm from the Major Crime Investigation Unit here in Bristol.
~ This is my colleague.
~ Yes, thank you.
My name is also Paul.
Paul Batty.
I am also a Detective Constable.
And I'm based in the same unit Paul works.
Your legal representative, your solicitor is also present.
Would you like to introduce yourself? Oh, yeah, my name is also Paul.
Okebu.
Well, so everyone's called Paul.
Not quite everyone.
And your full name.
Christopher Jonathan Edward Jefferies.
~ Date of birth.
~ 9th of January, 1945.
What would you prefer me to call you during this interview? Christopher or Mr Jefferies? I'm perfectly happy with either.
Which ever you feel more comfortable with.
I'd like to call you Christopher.
Is that OK? OK.
How many flats are there in the building? ~ Seven.
~ How many do you own? Three.
You live at number five.
Yes.
And you also own flats number one and two.
That's correct.
Including the flat lived in by Joanna Yeates.
She lived in flat one.
Yes.
Has Joanna Yeates ever been to your flat? No.
I don't think, to the best of my knowledge, she has ever been in my flat.
How would you describe Greg to us, then? As as, erm, pleasant, easy-going, erm, slightly bluff person perhaps.
~ Bluff? ~ Yeah, yes.
Bluff.
I don't know the word.
You don't know the word bluff? Oh! Gracious.
A cheerful, straightforward, unvarnished South Yorkshireman.
~ Right.
~ I mean, I wouldn't describe him as intellectually sophisticated necessarily.
But obviously an extremely competent professional man.
Erm, by that I mean he's not an academic and I have spent my whole life with academics.
So you're saying he's not an academic.
I'm saying he's not someone who strikes me as having primarily academic interests.
Erm, rather, I think, a fairly sporty sort of person.
On the evening of Friday 17th, you helped Greg start his car.
With the use of jump leads.
~ Correct.
~ Did you ask where he was going? He volunteered he was going to Sheffield.
There was a mention of a family event.
And was the subject of Joanna Yeates mentioned at all? Not at all.
It wasn't mentioned by me or anyone else.
We were concerned with getting the car started, not learning anything about who was doing what or for what reason.
So what was your understanding of what Joanna was doing? I had no understanding of what she was doing because her name didn't arise.
~ Did you wonder at all what she was doing? ~ No.
If I had any assumption whatsoever, it might have been that she may as well have been going with him.
But it wasn't something I thought about at all.
In your statement you said you then went to the gym.
That's right, yes.
And then went home.
Yes and I'm pretty sure that would have been between half past eight and nine o'clock.
OK and that's when you mentioned in your statement then becoming aware of something else.
Yes.
What you thought was the sound of a conversation between two people in the dark.
~ A low conversation, yes.
~ Low? Yes.
Very low.
Erm, to the extent that I cannot be certain that it actually happened which is why I was absolutely horrified to be told ~ that it had been stated on the media that I had ~ seen ~ these people.
And then you went into your flat.
Yes.
OK.
I want you to concentrate on that night of December the 17th.
Did you have contact with anyone else that night? No.
Did you leave your flat again, ~ at all, during the course of the night? ~ No.
Did you leave your flat to go into the garden? No.
~ Did you leave your flat to go into another flat in the premises? ~ No.
~ Did you leave your flat to go anywhere? ~ No.
Did you leave your flat to go to Joanna Yeates's flat? No, DC Connor, I did not.
I went to bed.
something which, given the hour, it's almost midnight, we could all profitably do now.
(DOOR UNLOCKS) You did great.
Based on what I heard today, they can't keep you much longer.
They haven't got enough to charge you.
They haven't got anything.
At all.
It might be an idea to ease back on the, er On - On what? School teacheryness.
Oh.
Sorry.
Yes, erm, old habits die hard.
Well, see you tomorrow.
Melissa.
Melissa? ~ Morning.
~ Morning.
What model's your Volvo? It's an S40.
And is that the only car you own? No.
I have a second car.
A Chrysler Neon which, erm, I look after for a friend who lives abroad.
OK.
When the police came to arrest you yesterday morning, do you remember a conversation with them about your car? They asked, "Would you please give me the keys to your car?" And I immediately gave them the Chrysler keys.
Right.
But you didn't offer the police the keys for the Volvo.
No, I did not.
~ Why not? ~ Because I assumed it was the keys for the Chrysler that they were interested in.
You did not deliberately not offer the keys to the Volvo? No, I did not.
Have you cleaned the inside of either of those cars, the Volvo or the Chrysler since teatime? 6pm on December the 17th? Er, no.
Have you got anyone else to clean the inside or outside of those cars? No.
OK.
Paul, have you got anything else or not? (WHISPERING) Oh, yeah.
Right.
Time now is 9:32 and I am suspending the interview.
~ This is normal? ~ Yeah.
Perfectly normal.
For an extension to hold you, they need a magistrate.
~ It's cold.
Erm, you might want this.
~ Thank you.
Oh, no, no, no.
Thank you.
I'm not having you appear anywhere in a blanket.
Here.
But thank you.
As her landlord, Mr Jefferies was both known to the victim and he had keys to the property.
He also knew the victim was alone that night.
(COUGHS) Significantly, before his arrest, Mr Jefferies gave the police two conflicting statements so we would like the opportunity to continue to hold and question him for a further 24 hours.
Granted.
Why is this being brought up now? Do not bring this to me now.
It's very underhand and deceitful.
Twenty years I've worked in criminal law.
I have never come across anything like this.
Do you know who Glenis Carruthers was? ~ Er, no.
~ Right.
She was a young woman murdered decades ago in Clifton.
Unsolved, apparently looked a bit like Jo.
They told me they wanted to question you in connection with that case too.
(LAUGHTER) I'd like you to describe your character to us.
How you see yourself.
I mean, does anything upset you? When was the last time you got angry with someone, for example? I tend not to get violently angry.
If I get angry, it's more snappily angry than anything else.
And how would you be when faced with a confrontation? I would certainly wish in some way to defuse the situation and not do anything to allow that situation to get out of control.
I do not like arguments.
Arguments make me feel uncomfortable.
Have you ever been violent towards anyone? No.
Certainly not.
Do you take any illegal drugs? Do you take heroin? No.
Do you take cocaine? No.
OK.
What about drink? Erm, I habitually have the equivalent of .
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half a bottle of wine with my supper.
When was the last time you were drunk? (LAUGHS) I don't think I've been drunk since, erm .
.
er university when I was an undergraduate at about the age of 19.
This would have been in Christmas That was the year I was born.
Maybe that's why he was drunk.
Are you in a relationship at the present time? ~ No.
~ When was the last time you were in a relationship? ~ If you mean a sexual relationship? ~ Yes.
I have, erm never had a .
.
permanent or long-lasting sexual relationship.
(SNIFFS) ~ Never? ~ No.
So, Christopher .
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when was the last time you had sex? You don't have to answer that, Christopher? You're a single man.
~ Mm-hm.
~ Living alone.
Yes.
What interests you sexually? ~ Is that relevant to this inquiry? ~ I'd like to know.
When your client looks at Joanna Yeates what does he see? I saw a young woman.
I certainly had no sexual interest in her.
No sexual feeling for her whatsoever.
Or indeed, for Greg, for that matter.
If that's what you're thinking.
(RAUCOUS SINGING) (FIREWORKS) (SINGING OF AULD LANG SYNE) TV: "So far, the retired teacher Chris Jefferies is the only named suspect and officers have been questioning him since he was arrested yesterday morning.
Police forensic teams have been searching Jefferies' flat in Bristol and the one below which he rented to Jo Yeates and her boyfriend.
Our correspondent John Kay has been following the day's events.
" "New Year's Eve.
But at this Victorian mansion block tonight the sombre search goes on.
Exactly two weeks after Jo Yeates was last seen alive" ~ Morning, Christopher.
~ Good morning, Paul.
~ Happy new year.
~ Mm.
Happy new year.
Food any better? Erm, yes.
Muesli.
And in a proper bowl too but the bed, hm, until two days ago, if asked, I would have described that as a window ledge.
Well Today's the last day they can hold you.
By 9pm tonight they either have to charge you or release you.
Right now, they haven't laid a glove on you.
They've got nothing.
Nothing.
If it were a boxing match, we'd be going to the last round and they'd need a knockout.
So be prepared.
Things could get a bit rough today.
Hm.
I'd better finish my muesli, then.
Did you go to Jo's flat on the night of the 17th of December? No.
I did not.
Did you go to that flat because you knew she was gonna be there alone? No, I did not.
You ever been out in the middle of the night? ~ In your car? ~ No.
Never? Never, ever? Well, I suppose it is just conceivable that I might have gone out to get some petrol.
But I, erm, certainly don't recall doing that.
OK.
So what you're saying to us now is that it is conceivable that you may have gone out in the night of the 17th, 18th of December? You're not being very specific, are you? And yet you described yourself as a meticulous person.
If I went out in a car later that evening, which I have no recollection of at all, I cannot conceive of any reason for doing so except to get some petrol.
And I think you'll find I said methodical.
And my recollection was that petrol was purchased during the day ~ on the 17th and - ~ Officer, yeah, I'm sorry to interrupt.
You're asking him to recall a specific incident of more than two weeks ago.
Which you've had an opportunity to look at the papers in relation to which my client hasn't had the opportunity to consider himself.
Do you have any evidence Mr Jefferies went out to buy petrol that night? No.
Then I fail to see the purpose of the question.
The purpose of the question is quite simple, Christopher.
It's that you haven't mentioned to us at all until this point during these interviews that you have potentially gone out during the course of that night.
I am trying to assist you in suggesting that the only conceivable reason for me going out in a car would be to purchase some petrol.
Mr Tabak has been spoken to.
Erm Vincent - Erm, Vincent Tabak? Yes, Vincent Tabak called us from Holland.
And he says that the position of the car, the Volvo, was different on the morning of the 18th.
The Saturday when you asked him for assistance, to where it was on the 17th.
The day before.
Where - Where was it before on the 17th? Well, he said it was facing in.
In its normal position.
Well Why ever would he say that? It wasn't.
So, tell us, then.
The position of the car when Vincent Tabak came out to assist you on the 18th? Well, it was - it was facing out.
Which is why he was able to push from the back and I was able to drive straight out.
Look, Christopher, we need to find out what happened to Jo.
Of course.
We need to find out what happened in that flat.
~ Well, of course.
~ And we need to get the truth.
Well, of course.
Now, the scene at Jo's flat suggested that she'd not been home long before she was assaulted.
Now, if you had any involvement whatsoever in that assault .
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now is the time to tell us.
I've told you again and again that I have not the slightest involvement.
You're an intelligent man.
I mean, you'll have gathered by now that we're making enquiries into your background in detail.
~ Yes.
~ Please, don't make the mistake of ignoring the fact that we are also intelligent people.
We have experts and scientists examining the scene.
~ Examining your car.
~ Of course.
~ Now, you've described yourself as meticulous - ~ Matter of fact.
~ Methodical.
~ Well, they too are meticulous, matter of fact and methodical.
So if you've had any involvement then you tell us.
Now.
As I have already said to my solicitor .
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I am 100% innocent of any involvement in the disappearance of Jo.
100%.
(WHISPERING) OK.
Time now is 13:09 and we will, this time, suspend the interview.
We'll come back to you.
It's outrageous.
He has sat here for three days listening to this unsubstantiated rubbish.
He's answered every question, .
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behaved with exceptional good grace.
And dignity.
You have nothing.
No evidence, no forensics, no motive.
No proof.
From the first moment I saw him, I knew he was innocent.
All you have to do is look at him.
I mean, how much do you weigh, Christopher? Nine stone? Ten? Yeah, I mean, he hasn't got the strength to have done it.
Suffocate a fit, young landscape gardener putting up a fight? Carry her body to the car.
I mean, it's madness, the whole thing.
You should know, from your training, that no man his age with his profile would kill a fit, young woman with his hands.
He'd used an object, a weapon, to compensate for his lack of strength.
And there was no weapon.
Why? Because it wasn't him.
Are you all right? Yes, I think so.
How about you? They're here.
I know, erm Papillon.
Come on.
In you come .
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Papillon.
Some outdoor shoes.
~ Size? ~ Seven and a half.
Anything else? Erm, some black jeans.
32 waist.
An electric razor? ~ Can't it be normal wet razors? ~ Not if I'm to use them.
And some hairspray.
Elnett.
"Extra hold".
I really don't know why I can't go myself.
Because you'll get lynched, that's why.
Who'd recognise me? Christopher, after Elizabeth Windsor, yours is about the most recognisable face in the country.
Of course You haven't seen them.
Seen what? ~ The papers.
~ Well, no.
I was in custody, erm, remember.
Why are you looking at me like that? What? Come on in.
Would you like me to stay with you? Whatever for? You're frightening me now.
I really can't see what would be so bad.
I tell you what, I'll be just outside.
It's monstrous.
Erm I'm afraid the television wasn't much better.
What about the school? You said that the .
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headmaster had said some nice things.
I could do with some cheering up.
"I think it's important that we all recognise that nobody has been charged with anything as yet.
But I can confirm that Mr Jefferies taught English at Clifton college for a number of years.
He retired in 2001 which is nearly ten years ago now.
And I've been headmaster here for six years and I've certainly never met Mr Jefferies.
There would be very few people on the teaching staff and pupils who will have ever met Mr Jefferies.
Because it is a number of years ago.
And although he lived locally, he had no formal contact with the College since he retired.
" ~ "Do you know if he left - " ~ What's he talking about? ~ "Was there any disciplinary - " ~ No-one remembers me.
I worked there for 34 years.
Half Half of my colleagues are still there.
I'm sure he was put under terrible pressure.
(KNOCK AT DOOR) Are you all right, Christopher? Anything I can get you? No, thank you.
I'm fine.
Good night, then.
And why would I want to put my head above the parapet? And suffer all those vile attacks? You wouldn't need to if you made one or two changes.
It wold be sending out the wrong signals to have you turning up to do examinations with students.
Because I would murder them?! Louis Charalambous is an expert in defamation and privacy.
I don't think there's anyone better.
Let's as they say do it.