jo yeates

jeanie wrote:Tearful: David and Teresa Yeates appealed for information about the disappearance of their daughter Jo

the picture in todays news is so painful to watch..so different to that other couple...just compare

DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of a pretty young architect have seized a phone and computer belonging to her live-in boyfriend.

Greg Reardon revealed this ­yesterday in a desperate internet appeal for help to find Joanna Yeates, 25 – who vanished six days ago.

The 27-year-old wrote on Facebook: “The police have taken statements and are piecing together the events that unfolded on Friday night and beyond and are currently in a full investigation with local area searches in a case that is described as ‘high risk’. It will be difficult to contact myself as mobile phones and computers are in the hands of the police for the near future. Teresa and David (Jo’s parents) are still contactable.


“Thank you for all the support and good wishes at this difficult time.”

His fresh appeal comes as police revealed new CCTV footage of the missing woman’s last movements.

Detective Supt Mark Saunders described Miss Yeates’ disappearance as “completely baffling” and “very unusual”.

He urgently appealed for the public to come forward with any information.

A massive police hunt is underway. Yesterday specialist police teams searched the Avon Gorge, near Miss Yeates’ home in the upmarket Bristol suburb of Clifton.

She was last seen by ­colleagues leaving The Ram pub in Bristol at about 8pm on Friday.

She is later filmed in a nearby Waitrose and receipts found at her home show that at 8.40pm she was in a Tesco store about half a mile from the flat she shared with Mr Reardon.

On her way home she had a phone conversation with her best friend, student Rebecca Scott, 25, and revealed her joy at plans to spend Christmas with her parents and Mr Reardon, a landscape architect.

The blue-eyed blonde has not been seen or heard from since.

Her belongings, including her keys and coat, were found in her house and there was no sign of a break in.

On Tuesday, her distraught parents – flanked by Miss Yeates’ brother and Mr Reardon – issued an emotional public appeal for her return.

Yesterday, Mr Reardon sobbed as he spoke about his missing girlfriend.

He said: “She was the first ever girlfriend I moved in with and we had just celebrated our two-year anniversary.

“Recently we moved in to a really nice flat together in Bristol in probably the best area of the city. It’s our ­second place together and things felt like they were really falling into place.

“This Christmas was going to be our first together, I was going to stay with her family, which is always a big deal for a boyfriend. She was really looking forward to Christmas, we had put up a tree and she was due to bake some mince pies.”

He told how he returned home on Sunday night after spending the weekend with his family in Sheffield to find the flat empty.

“Over the weekend I had tried calling and texting her and didn’t have a reply, but Jo didn’t always reply so it wasn’t completely out of character.

“I waited up for her until about ­midnight and then when she didn’t return I started to get really worried. I went through her bag, which she had left on the table and found it had all the stuff she would need to take with her, things like her purse and her keys. I called the police and reported her missing.”

Miss Yeates’ father, David, 63, an IT worker from Ampfield, Hampshire, said: “She means the world to us. Time has no meaning and we just want our girl back.” A spokeswoman for Avon and ­Somerset police said last night: “The confiscation of Mr ­Reardon’s phone and computer are a routine part of our investigations. They lived together and there could be information contained on them that can help us. Mr Reardon is not a suspect.”

SteveT wrote:Unfortunately, after McCann's I look at every case in a different light. I wouldn't have even considered the boyfriends involvement 4 years ago!