Police continue to quiz suspect in Yeates killing

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

Chris Jefferies, 65, was arrested Thursday morning and a magistrate granted Avon and Somerset Police an extension to hold him beyond 7pm last night.

The development came after officers spent the day talking to Peter Stanley, 56, a neighbour of the retired public school teacher in Clifton, Bristol, who said he and Jefferies helped start Joanna Yeates’s boyfriend’s car the day she vanished.