2:44pm UK, Sunday January 02, 2011
Forensic examinations are continuing at the home of murder victim Joanna Yeates after a landlord was released on bail.
Murder Probe Continues After Landlord Freed
2:44pm UK, Sunday January 02, 2011
Forensic examinations are continuing at the home of murder victim Joanna Yeates after a landlord was released on bail.
Chris Jefferies, 65, was freed pending further inquiries after he spent more than two days in custody on suspicion of killing the landscape architect.
Miss Yeates' snow-covered body was found on Christmas Day.
Mr Jefferies' release on Saturday came hours after the 25-year-old victim's grieving family said they were "certain" her killer would be caught.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police are continuing their investigation into the murder and said they were working tirelessly to bring the culprit to justice.
Murder victim Joanna Yeates
Detective Chief Inspector Phil Jones said: "The incident room has been inundated with thousands of calls from members of the public who have provided us with information.
"This information is being scrutinised and followed up by specially trained officers who are exhausting every lead and avenue that we are provided with."
Detectives are keen to speak to anyone who may have used Longwood Lane in Failand, Bristol, between December 17, when Miss Yeates went missing, and Christmas Day, when her body was discovered there.
Mr Jefferies, who lives above the Victorian flat Miss Yeates shared with her boyfriend Greg Reardon in Bristol's up-market Clifton area, was arrested on Thursday.
He had been held until Saturday night after police were granted more time to question him.
Bailed: Landlord Chris Jefferies
The property, on Canynge Road, is about three miles from where the young woman's body was found.
Forensic investigations continue there and a high police presence remains in the neighbourhood.
Miss Yeates' parents and brother have said their lives stopped as soon as she went missing.
In a statement read out by police, they said: "From the moment that we received Greg's phone call on Sunday, December 19, until now, time has had no meaning.
"We had a bad feeling from that moment, which deepened when we arrived in Bristol."
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