12:22pm UK, Saturday December 25, 2010
Police are continuing to search for missing Joanna Yeates after wellwishers prayed for her safe return at midnight mass.
Officers are hoping CCTV footage of the architect buying a pizza at a Tesco Express on the night she was last seen will yield clues to her whereabouts.
There was no trace of the pizza, the wrapping or the box in the flat that Miss Yeates shared with her boyfriend - despite the fact that the receipt, the coat she was wearing, and her mobile phone and keys were inside.
The footage shows Miss Yeates, 25, buying the Tesco Finest tomato, mozzarella and basil pesto pizza at around 8.40pm on December 17 in Clifton Village, Bristol.
She is seen using a self-service till in the supermarket and is wearing a cream-coloured coat with a rucksack on her back.
A police spokesman said: "The video has been released by detectives hoping people in the area at the time will remember seeing Joanna and contact the police."
Earlier at midnight mass at Christ Church in Clifton, prayers were said for Ms Yeates.
Right Reverend Mike Hill, the Bishop of Bristol, said: "I'm the father of four daughters and I can't begin to think what the family are going through.
"The community of Clifton feels this very tragic disappearance at this time and I guess the anguish of just not knowing what happened to Jo."
Jo and her boyfriend Gregory Reardon
Miss Yeates has not been seen or heard from since Friday December 17 following a night out with work colleagues in Bristol.
Her boyfriend Greg Reardon, 27, reported her missing on Sunday night after returning home to their flat in Canynge Road, Clifton, from a weekend away in Sheffield visiting family.
Detectives are investigating the possibility that Miss Yeates was abducted and said it was one of several lines of inquiry.
Her parents David and Theresa Yeates sobbed as they acknowledged that she could be being held against her will and begged for her to be returned safe and well.
Mr Yeates, 63, said: "Just let her go. If you have ... if she is dead, then please tell somebody where she is. We want her back whatever."
And he sobbed as he went on: "I was stood outside having a cigarette. It was cold. I was thinking my daughter, maybe she was out there by herself in the snow, frozen.
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