LONDON – Two tabloid newspapers were in contempt of court because of the way they covered the arrest of a suspect by police investigating the killing of landscape architect Joanna Yeates, the High Court was told yesterday.
The attorney general said reports in the Sunand Daily Mirrorwould have posed a "substantial risk" of prejudicing any trial Ms Yeates's landlord, Christopher Jefferies, might have faced.
Dominic Grieve said the articles gave an “overall impression” that Mr Jefferies had a “propensity” to commit the kind of offences for which had had been arrested. – (PA)
