I have no idea if Chris Jeffries killed poor Johanna Yeates, and I am sure no one else knows exactly who did kill her (except for the killer) at the moment either. But isn't the amount of insinuation about the man from both the press and from general conversation (I overheard one woman say he must be guilty as he has a "paedophiles face". Really) really quite unsettling, way beyond what should be appropriate for the current stage of the enquiry. Apart from the controversy about him (or not) reporting Johanna leaving her flat the day she vanished, the accusations that he might have done it include:
*He is a "Peeping Tom" (well that was some blokes wifes opinion anyway. Not that the Mirror didn't let it stop them printing a "Jo suspect is "Peeping Tom" headline.)
*He has a daft hairdo
*He made former tenants wife "uncomfortable."
*He entered said flat (of which he was landlord) without asking
*He had mucky fingernails.
*He likes poems (he's an English teacher.) and got wrapped up in reading them aloud.
*He looks funny.
*He had a strange coat.
*Some of his former pupils called him "Strange Mr. Jeffries."
*Some other pupils thought he was gay on the single basis of him not being married.
*He read poems by writers who were obsessed with things like death (Also known as nearly everyone who writes poems.)
*He let out a flat (Johanna's flat) to a fellow teacher 12 years ago who was done for sexual assault of a minor years later.
*He was a bit eccentric, and people who commit murder on telly are always eccentric.
Stuff like this is not very helpful. It is way too early in the enquiry to start muck raking about a bloke who let us make this clear: - MAY NOT HAVE ACTUALLY DONE ANYTHING BY THE WAY! A slightly eccentric English master at a posh school is certainly nothing new, and being "a bit strange" doesn't immediately mean you have a propensity to strangle young women to death, and all the "psycho poses" like the one above don't really change that.
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