Landlord released without charge over Yeates murder

A LANDLORD arrested on suspicion of murdering landscape architect Joanna Yeates has been released from police bail.

Former public school teacher Chris Jefferies, 66, was quizzed for several days over the murder of his neighbour in Bristol. Police yesterday confirmed that he was released from bail without charge on Friday.

Mr Jefferies was arrested on 30 December last year - after the frozen body of the landscape architect was discovered on Christmas Day. Mr Jefferies, whose flat was in the same block on Canynge Road as Ms Yeates and boyfriend Greg Reardon's, was held for three days. Three weeks later Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak was charged with the 25-year-old's murder. Tabak, who has been remanded to custody, lived next door to Ms Yeates in Clifton with his girlfriend.