Manslaughter internet search by Tabak

Vincent Tabak researched the unsolved murders of Melanie Hall and Anni Dewani after strangling Joanna Yeates, the court heard yesterday.

The 33-year-old defendant also looked up satellite imagery of the site where he dumped Miss Yeates’s body.

He researched the Wikipedia page for murder and the maximum sentence for manslaughter, web records from work and personal laptops showed.

Lyndsey Farmery, an internet use analyst who assisted police, took the jury through Tabak’s internet use after he killed 25-year-old Miss Yeates.

The Dutch engineer was also checking decomposition rates. Days after killing Miss Yeates on 17 December, Tabak was watching a timelapse video of a body decomposing, Bristol Crown Court heard.

In searches, Tabak looked up pages about the Tesco Finest pizza Miss Yeates bought on the night she died and also checked council rubbish collections.

He was also said to have looked at an online article titled: “Did killer take sock as a trophy?”