Man ‘shopped for beer with Joanna’s body in boot of car’

A KILLER neighbour strangled Joanna Yeates then went shopping in Asda with her body in the boot of his car, a court heard yesterday.

Vincent Tabak texted his girlfriend to say he was bored just minutes after murdering the 25-year-old landscape architect, a jury was told. He also researched how long it would take a body to decompose. He avoided police suspicion for weeks by maintaining the pretence that he was a concerned neighbour, the prosecution claims. As the murder inquiry made international headlines, Tabak told a guest at a dinner party the killer must be a “crazy, detached person”, Bristol Crown Court heard.

The 33-year-old — who has admitted manslaughter but denies murder — also sent a string of emails to his girlfriend to cover his tracks, describing the case as “creepy”, Nigel Lickley, for the Crown, said.