VINCENT TABAK claims it was “pure chance” that he strangled Joanna Yeates, a court has heard.

Detectives were following up several new leads in the hunt for Joanna Yeates’s killer today after retracing her last-known steps.

DETECTIVES were last night granted more time to continue questioning Joanna Yeates’s landlord on suspicion of her murder.

The killer who strangled landscape architect Joanna Yeates and dumped her body by a roadside was being hunted by police in Britain today.

The parents of a young woman missing for nearly a week believe she has been kidnapped.