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Vincent Tabak pleads guilty to manslaughter of Joanna Yeates:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-...At_Old_Bailey_

I knew it all along.

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Knew what?

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Make an educated guess ;)

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He's still facing trail for murder though.

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What that you knew who the murderer was?Well we all knew that..Hindsight is wonderful.

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Yet another example of how your powers of observation never cease to amaze me.

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Seriously - knew what all along?

There are a number of options, and it may be easier if you state what you knew, rather than people guessing incorrectly.

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...perhaps you should have told the police then :dozey:

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Its called sarcasm. Only a couple pages back I was stating that Tabak seemed an unlikely candidate for committing such a crime. Ergo, a tongue in cheek "I knew it all along", when in fact I'm a bit surprised by the plea.
As much as I suspected the police must have had evidence they weren't revealing, I was really hoping they had the wrong guy.

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Thank you for the clarification.

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4 posts about a clearly obvious sarcy remark and yet not one comment on topic. Yes pog I'm a bleedin' psychic and should have told the police, really - what exactly is your contribution to this discussion?

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Apologies for the confusion..:D

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Surprised they didn't accept the plea. The evidence must be pretty damming if they are willing to risk a trial.

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The DM's take on this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...slaughter.html

I wonder (as do so many) what really happened. Could be so many plausible scenarios, difficult to even speculate at this stage. I recall reading that the police stated they didn't believe Joanna was sexually assaulted. So I'm wondering if it was murder made to appear like an opportunistic sexual assault (i.e. naked body) but perhaps the real motive was nothing of the sort. Could be anything from blackmail, feuding neighbors, money or even drugs for all we know. The next developments should be interesting, though we might have quite a wait still ahead.

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I ask for some clarification and you fail to provide it.You are the one who wanted me to play guessing games and as a result I'm sarcastic for assuming that you think I'm stupid because I can't play the game and therefore I respond in kind.

I suggest you use less brevity when claiming knowledge so we can all have a clearer picture as to your meaning.After all I'm not a mind reader.

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How was I to know that as that's several weeks past and on another page.I'll repeat I'm not a mind reader.

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Again I'm not a mind reader anymore than anyone else here.

You really ought to get your forum etiquette sorted out IF you wish to avoid sarcasm being applied to you.

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Mind reader? No that's asking a bit much, but a thread reader would be a good start though.
Then I posted "I knew it all along".

I see what I did wrong. Next time, before daring to surreptitiously sneak in some humour under the mod-dar, I'll preemptively send smoke signals, IFF and ensure to provide a liberal application of smilies for the less comically astute (or those who've simply forgotten to take their early afternoon's dose of prozac), all just for good measure.

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She wasn't found naked.

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lmao

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Ah yes thats right, but she was missing item(s) of clothing which would/could imply she either had been naked or there was a sexual motive.

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It was a missing sock....

Helluva implication (by whoever made the implication).

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I recall she wasn't dressed for the weather conditions and would've been unlikely to have made it to that location on her own (no coat or boots yet snow covered ground).

The defense will now no doubt be planning to convince the jury that somehow she drove him to murder (hence the manslaughter plea). I hope the character assasination that will no doubt follow doesn't cause any more grief for the family than is absolutely necessary.

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So no suggested sexual motive then, good. I'm glad people will hopefully pay more attention to the few facts that we do know about what happened from now on.

No point in trying to use pseudo-educated and eloquent language to hide the fact that we probably know less than 10% of what really happened.

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Nor should we forget that proceedings are active, a trial is due, and we are bound by the same laws as the media when it comes to discussing details of the case pre-trial. Despite the fact he has admitted the killing ;)

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That's exactly the truth too. From searching the internet, everything from yahoo answers to the endless facebook discussions, the theories are the same - *cough* she refused his advances and he lost it *cough*.
But the reality is that there could be any number of plots/scenarios, ranging from the downright obvious, to the mind bogglingly complex, that culminated with the murder of Joanna Yeates. We can only wait and see what the trial dredges up, I just hope we get to hear the real version of events rather than a mere fantasy articulately engineered to yield the lesser manslaughter charge.

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Hopefully but doubtful. His chances of persuading a jury it was an accident took a huge blow with him hiding the body and other actions after the event.

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If I were the betting type, I'd wager that you're quite correct. As unfortunate as that is for the enquiring minds among us.

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Some slappage for the Mirror and the Sun might be in the pipeline.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13371918

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Excellent.

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:tu:

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I hope he sues them for every last penny.

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Jo Yeates' landlord settles libel case out of court

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14339807

Another blow for the comics :tu:

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This, along with some of the shameless insinuations directed at the McCann family when Madeline went missing, serves to further underline the point that freedom of speech is subservient to an individual's right not to have their good name dragged through the mud.

This particular case highlights the media's recent trend towards pushing the boundaries of acceptable commentary and reporting while an unsolved case is under investigation. Had this individual eventually been sent to trial, he might have argued his right to a fair trial had been compromised by some of what was said about him.

Justice is more important than selling papers, and I am reluctantly coming round to the view that media regulation backed up by criminal law is the only way we can now ensure this.

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very good! :clap:

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Never going to happen whilst Murdoch has control of Politicians of all sides.

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You not been paying attention lately, the man is a busted flush, no politician will be aligning themselves with him anytime soon and his entire newspaper group is toxic, when he has to sell the lot we must make sure the government never allows one man to much influence over our press again.

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I have been keeping up, At this moment in time the man is STILL in charge of the biggest media group in the UK is he not ?.

His papers including the likes of the Sun and his News Channel Sky news can still control what news is published. Politicians will be terrified of him printing all of the stuff they have saved for such a day.

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Yep pooing themselves, you can see that by the way Ed Miliband's been laying into them either that or Ed's grown a backbone, he's not the only one either.

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I bet nothing changes :)

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Call me an old sceptic but I wouldn't be at all surprised if some cosy little 'deals' are entered into to ensure certain highly embarrassing political issues never see the light of day as a result of the enquiry.

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Sadly I have to agree.:erm:

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He has been found guilty. Sentenced to 20 years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-15448121

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People like him should receive the death penalty in my mind .

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+1 as well