Police given more time to question Joanna Yeates suspect

• Police have been searching a flat which is the registered address of Vincent Tabak

The suspect was detained in the early hours of yesterday after police investigating the 25-year-old's death uncovered fresh evidence.

Soon afterwards, specialist search teams moved into a neighbouring flat in the building where Miss Yeates lived at 44 Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol.

Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak, 32, is registered as living at the address with his girlfriend Tanja Morson.

An Avon and Somerset Police spokeswoman said: "Police have this morning been granted extra time to question a 32-year-old man arrested yesterday on suspicion of the murder of Jo Yeates."

Police officers were seen at the offices of Tabak's employer, international consultancy Buro Happold, in Lower Bristol Road, Bath.

The firm, and several colleagues, referred all inquiries to Avon and Somerset Police. The force has not named the suspect in custody.

Workers erected scaffolding and green tarpaulin at the rear of the substantial converted Victorian property in Canynge Road yesterday.

The screen covers the entrance to flat two, where Mr Tabak lived, and the rear of Miss Yeates's rented home that she shared with her boyfriend Greg Reardon, 27.

Police sealed off both ends of Canynge Road as officers in white forensic outfits searched the property.

The early-morning arrest is believed to have taken place at a converted Victorian terrace house in Aberdeen Road, Clifton.

Later, forensic officers loaded three wheelie bins and a mountain bike from the address in Aberdeen Road into an unmarked white Transit van.

Mr Tabak lived at Flat One, which shares the ground floor of 44 Canynge Road with Flat Two, Miss Yeates's home.

A floor plan reveals the two flats were connected by an interior door between two bedrooms that has since been blocked.