Vincent Tabak
Please note, all discussion concerning this case is now being made on the following blog entry here http://mccannexposure.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/joanna-yeates-murder-discussion/
The 32-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering Joanna Yeates is believed to be her neighbour Vincent Tabak.
Mr Tabak, who lives in the same block of flats in Bristol, is thought to have been arrested in the early hours of this morning.
The Dutch architect is registered as living in the Canynge Road apartment in Clifton with his girlfriend.
Police will not confirm or deny the name of the suspect, who is being held at an undisclosed location.
Calls to his employer in Bath were referred to Avon and Somerset Police.
The arrest is believed to have taken place at a converted Victorian terraced house in Aberdeen Road, Clifton.
Police have sealed off the rear of Joanna’s flat and both ends of Canynge Road as officers in white forensic outfits carry out searches.
Tabak is an office workspace expert and is currently employed as a ‘people flow analyst’ at Buro Happold in Bath, Somerset.
The Dutch national was born in the village of Veghel near Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in February 1978.
He started studying for his six-year long master of science degree in Architecture, Building and Planning at Einhoven University in 1996, and graduated in 2003.
His PhD project ”User Simulation of Space Utilisation” looked at developing spaces within offices to aid movement and make the most of a building’s capacity. His paper can be read here http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/200910371.pdf
Tabak moved to Britain in 2007 to work at engineering firm Buro Happold in Bath, Somerset.
Since 2007, he has been working in SMART, the advanced analysis and simulation team, developing people flow projects, including schools and airports.
He moved into Flat 2 at 44 Canynge Road in 2009 and previously lived in Walcot Parade, Bath, the year before.
Tabak is believed to have shared the Canynge Road flat with his girlfriend Tanja Morson, a treasury analyst at Dyson in Malmesbury, Wilts.
Thomas
18/02/2011 at 4:02 pm
Just a few remarks after reading the new entries:
I liked Sue’s idea: Chris Jeff said first he saw three persons coming out, one of them maybe Joanna. Then he retracted when he knew there was a strangling investigation. As a landlord he doesn’t like this, he wants to rent or sell his flats.
Archbold is right, to read is more difficult now.
An advice for uploading, if I may: write your text in a word processing or in e-mail, than highlight all, press Control+C, then go to our website, inside the frame to post, press Control+V, it’s much faster.
Najith
18/02/2011 at 4:35 pm
@Archbold. Hello again! Indeed you’re right – I do rather like the new slant on property “value” – despite such evasiveness incriminating, er, common values among decent men. It’s very easy to see how a landlord may prefer “none of this to have happened – I need my flat sold or rented out – and am not interested in crime-scenes prohibiting or spoiling y income! So – this much we agree – the principle may very well stand.
@Antihypocrite. Yes, yes … at first the “him” was eliminated in round 1 of police investigations as this cctv evidence had not (then) been discovered and released. This is precisely what Jeddah, I think, wrote further upstream when he said “we need to establish who the “him” was” … adding what the “him’s” relationship is/was to the cluttered story. Mixed testimony and early arrests coupled with denied details to the media leave us all here – clutching at either straws or golden nuggets.
@Thomas. Thanks for the upload tip. I don’t have nearly as big a problem as previously; I guess Utopia remains an undiscovered planet – else we’d all be living in perfect harmony. Therefore “Thanks indeed to you, HLM for your goodwill in approaching and accommodating our plight!! High Five!”
archbold
18/02/2011 at 5:35 pm
I know there are those here who will consider this an utterly ridiculous idea, however here it is. Assuming the murder took place in JY’s flat, I wonder what might have happened if the police had conducted a police line-up (ID parade) with VT and four totally unconnected men, and then had the only witness to the killing, the cat, enter the room and observe his reaction to the line up. Remember VT didn’t apparently know GR and JY, hence wouldn’t have been expected to have set foot in the flat and encountered their cat.
Cats are amazingly intuitive and yes, inscrutable creatures. If the cat had had to endure the attack on someone who cared for, and loved him so much, he might’ve shown an interesting reaction to one of those in the line-up. As unorthodox an idea as this might seem, I probably would have tried it out — on camera of course.
Najith
18/02/2011 at 6:29 pm
Archbold!!! Well, dear fellow poster … Congratulations! Your above post hit the 1000th post here!
And yes, count me in as one of those that finds your celebratory post, as you suspected, … utterly ridiculous. We have 2 cats, Storm (named after Desert Storm a.k.a Stormin Norman from 90′a Gulf War) is 21 years old. He must have many memories.
None involve the tell-tale signs of murder – despite his 9 (plus) lves.
Know what gets me? Is the number of people who (seriously, and this is so scary) believe the police have “no evidence”. Despite NOT being privvy to their case – nope – this is a nothing short of a travesty of justice. No evidence; wrong man; couldn’t have done it; frame up…. ad infinitum….
Duh-uh. We’re armchair detectives. Nowhere NEAR the real thing … and public opinion (or need, want, desire) has said “No evidence…”
I ask
“HOW DO YOU KNOW THERE IS NO EVIDENCE!!!???”
Please attach supporting links, police dossier file info, etc. Pls dont just “say” …. “because there is no evidence”.
BACK IT UP!
Hardlinemarxist
18/02/2011 at 6:32 pm
New post created for future discussion on this case here http://mccannexposure.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/joanna-yeates-murder-discussion/
This should ease loading problems
Best
HLM
Najith
18/02/2011 at 6:44 pm
What a darling … tku
Najith
18/02/2011 at 7:05 pm
Here’s a SUGGESTION!
Why don’t we each cut and paste our last (salient) post and bring it here so everyone is up to speed, as opposed to trekking back and forth to see who said what?
Alternatively, HLM may decide last 10 most salient posts for onward discussion and we take up the ropes from there?
Thoughts, anyone?
Thomas
18/02/2011 at 9:51 pm
PLEASE USE FOLLOWING SITE AS FROM 18/02/2011:
http://mccannexposure.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/joanna-yeates-murder-discussion/
See post of 18/02/2011 6:32 pm
Dan
23/02/2011 at 1:14 pm
Vincent Tabak is a scapegoat.
wanda
24/10/2011 at 8:40 pm
a murdering trophy taking scapegoat?
Dennis John O'Gara
24/04/2011 at 11:05 pm
HE’S GUILTY .. JUST WAIT TILL THE TRIAL AND SEE WHAT THE EVIDENCE SAYS !!
Nicola
05/05/2011 at 1:44 pm
Dennis, how can you post “He’s guilty” and then follow this with “just wait till the trial and see what the evidence says” you dunce! That statement is nonsensical!
I’ve been a witness on the stand in a crown court to an innocent human before, where no evidence existed, and she was handcuffed and taken into custody on nothing mroe than the word of a corrupt bank manager who GUESSED she might be guilty (because she needed a scapegoat). Not one piece of evidence, or witness acct. Not one member of her family or friends were present. It was a miracle that I managed to get in there and give character evidence at the last minute. The case was then thrown out and though acquitted that lovely young girl is forever tormented with the experience she had and fear of being locked up innocent! And they’d have done it – just to get someone named! She was going to jail for something she didn’t do – i was there and saw what was happening.
This poor young woman Joanna was murdered and we’d all like for her killer(s) to be brought to lawful justice. All I’ve read about the case and no evidence suggests the police are desperate and are making this man their scapegoat. For god’s sake he has no car – there is no motive and if they enter and exit the same building regularly then they would have low number dns of either on them. So grow some brains and stop assuming that when a corrupt newspaper like “the sun” or the exteremly corrupt BBC say he has admitted to murder when he has NOT… just argh! your ignorance makes me sick!
Hardlinemarxist
05/05/2011 at 3:25 pm
errmmm…Tabak has pleaded guilty to manslaughter
Dennis John O'Gara
07/05/2011 at 11:29 am
He has admitted killing her just as I knew he would !!
See my comment “HE’S GUILTY” etc. so I was absolutely correct when I said he kliled her … all that now needs to seen is whether it was murder or manslaughter so all the fools on here who wrote rubbish in terms of it wasn’t him etc. look the dopes they really are. Let’s hope her parents and friends get the verdict they need to put this behind them and move on with their lives.. This gutless swine needs a proper life sentence to pay his due … pity the death penalty which the majority of sensible people want is not in force !
Hardlinemarxist
07/05/2011 at 1:21 pm
Dennis,
Please refrain from insulting other posters. You will do well to remember that this case concerns the death of a young woman, not a competition of who is right or wrong.
HLM