4:26am UK, Saturday January 08, 2011
Police investigating the murder of Joanna Yeates are reportedly preparing to investigate the movements of registered sex offenders on the night she went missing.
Murder victim Joanna Yeates
Up to 20 men who have a history of attacking women are expected to be interviewed by officers, as part of inquiries into the 25-year-old’s death, according to the Daily Mail.
The paper quoted an unnamed police source as saying: "As the inquiry continues, it will be necessary for officers to eliminate who might fall into a category of potential killer."
Avon and Somerset Police have said there was no evidence Miss Yeates had been sexually assaulted, but they have not ruled out a sexual motive.
On Friday night, officers retraced Miss Yeates' journey after she was last seen alive and questioned hundreds of witnesses in an attempt to find further information.
Joanna Yeates Murder 
See all the key locations in the case
They spoke to customers in the pub where she went for a Christmas drink, talked to people in the streets close to her Bristol home and stopped cars where her body was found.
After leaving work on December 17, the landscape architect went to the Ram pub in Bristol city centre with her colleagues from BDP.
Miss Yeates spent around two hours socialising before leaving at about 8pm to make the 30-minute walk home to her flat in Canynge Road, Clifton.
She was spotted on CCTV in a Waitrose supermarket, at the Clifton Triangle, and then went to a Tesco Express in Clifton village, where she bought a pizza.
How Events Have Unfolded:
:: Dec 17: Miss Yeates leaves the Ram pub at 8pm to walk home.
:: Dec 20: Police make first appeal over Miss Yeates' disappearance.
:: Dec 26: Police confirm a body found on Christmas Day is that of Miss Yeates.
Detectives said Miss Yeates had made it home because her shoes, coat, mobile phone, purse and keys were found there - although the pizza, the wrapping and its box are still missing.
Her snow-covered remains were found on Christmas morning along Longland Lane, in Failand, North Somerset. She had been strangled.
Detective Chief Inspector Phil Jones, during the operation on Friday night, said: "We are hoping this high-profile activity will jog people's memories and may prompt more members of the public to contact us."
The police investigation was first launched after Miss Yeates' boyfriend Greg Reardon, 27, returned to Bristol from a weekend in Sheffield on December 19 and reported her missing.
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