Jo Yeates' landlord Christopher Jefferies to sue papers

[4me2]

Jo Yeates' landlord Christopher Jefferies to sue papers




Mr Jefferies received "terrible treatment" from the press, his lawyers say


The landlord of murdered landscape architect Jo Yeates has launched libel and privacy claims against a string of newspapers, his lawyer has said.
Christopher Jefferies is suing papers including the Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star.
Mr Jefferies, from Bristol, was the subject of media scrutiny after he was arrested last December on suspicion of murder. He was released without charge.
None of the papers contacted by the BBC has so far commented on the action.
Mr Jefferies is "seeking vindication of his reputation for the terrible treatment he received" at the hands of the press, his lawyer Louis Charalambous said.
Madeleine McCann The partner at Simons Muirhead and Burton said he was hoping for a swift resolution to Mr Jefferies' case.
Miss Yeates vanished after returning to her basement flat in Bristol's Clifton area on 17 December.
Her body was found on a grass verge about three miles away on Longwood Lane in Failand on Christmas Day.
Another man has been charged with the murder and is awaiting trial.
In 2008, Mr Charalambous represented British expatriate Robert Murat, who received a record settlement in 2008 of £600,000 and an apology over "seriously defamatory" allegations in nearly 100 newspaper articles concerning the disappearance of



Madeleine McCann.


In Mr Murat's case, the settlement was reached with the Sun, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, Daily Mail, London Evening Standard, Metro, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, News of the World and the Scotsman.
He later also settled out of court with BSkyB, for an undisclosed sum.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13161170

[BBK]

Good on him. Because he looked a little bit mad he was found guilty by the press, made a ridicule of, and quite frankly deserves an apology if nothing else.

[flumperino]

Good for him. He was vilified for convenience because it was christmas and people needed somebody to blame . I bet the newspaper stories have ruined his life.

[Northernbloke]

Be interesting to see what happens - if I remember correctly didn't he give a statement to someone saying he'd seen people acting suspiciously at the flat on the night she dissappeared and then start denying it to the rest of the media, that sparked all the attention that was focussed on him so I'd expect the press to use the contributory negligence claim against him.

Good luck to him though

[burner1]

I recall when this one was in the news, the amount of people on some forums saying 'yeah, hope they hang him, he's feckin weird looking' .. I bet that's the mentality of some so called news papers as well lol.

[MsDG]

Good for him. He was vilified for convenience because it was christmas and people needed somebody to blame . I bet the newspaper stories have ruined his life.

Skip back 4 months....

http://www.digital-forums.com/showpo...85&postcount=3

Crazy stuff, but I guess it makes sense if there was no sign of forced entry, and this woman's murder just happened to coincide with her boyfriend being away.

If he did it, it was probably from living above them and him being infatuated with her.

[flumperino]

Fair point, but that's not exactly vilification is it...

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Is it me or does he look a little like Gary Glitter?

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[ZX7R]

Aye, good for him. Hope he gets six figures from those papers that dragged him through mud without even considering he was innocent until proven guilty.

[jw_2000_uk]

Deserves every penny he gets..

Aint gna lie, he looked suspect.. But i thought it was to obvious to be him.

[4me2]

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Aint gna lie,

What level of retardation gets you from "going to" to "gna" ?

Special needs school attributes ?

[Detector]

i think he should be looked into further, reminds me of josef fritzl and i bet hes got some kids locked up in the basement of his flats the fuckin perv