Det Chief Ins Gareth Bevan, from Avon and Somerset Police, said: "We believe Jo reached her home address shortly after 8.30pm on Friday evening.
"From CCTV, we know she bought a pizza at Tesco Express in Clifton Village and there is no evidence of the pizza, the wrappings or the box in the flat.
However, Det Chief Insp Gareth Bevan, who appealed for information about the whereabouts of the Tesco pizza, is part of Melanie Hall investigation team and has spoken publicly about that inquiry.
Where the Police trying to link the two cases ???
The Police are obviously trying to draw someones attention (IMO) and I don't think it was Dr Vincent Tabak..
None of the officers who testified in court appeared in the news media at the time, and none of the latter testified in court. This is very odd. Were they chosen just for their public speaking skills? Was DCI Phil Jones just a symbolic figurehead? I got the impression that it was DCI Joe Goff who was the No. 2 and who actually led the team.
Joanna Yeates was at this time "missing, believed abducted". Until you suggested that this reference to the murder of Melanie Hall was a secret signal to someone known to the police, I had suspected that DCI Gareth Bevan was given the pizza job to divert public attention from their suspicion of Joanna's boyfriend. It may, however, have been a subliminal signal to everyone that "we now fear that Joanna was murdered too".
We know from TM's and VT's e-mail exchanges that the missing pizza made a deep impression on them, so it would have been quite natural for VT to research the murder of Melanie Hall, whose case he would never have heard of before.
How many DCI Phil Jones can be working for the Avon and Somerset police... ??
Second-in-command of department providing comprehensive communications service for Avon and Somerset Police; internal/external, proactive and reactive communications. Was chair of the communications group of the area's Local Resilience Forum and of the communications group for MAPPA (Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements), and day-to-day was manager of the reactive Press team. Was the initial lead press officer on the Joanna Yeates murder enquiry; also led on communications in the wake of a terrorist arrest and a fatal shooting by police offiers. Wide experience of crisis/reputation management; led on media awareness training for staff of all ranks and grades. Role involved managing and motivating a team whose members were often operating under stressful, high-pressure, circumstances and providing strategic support, advice and guidance to senior managers and officers. At gold level, devised and implemented multi-agency communications strategies and engaged in stakeholder and partner-agency/organisation engagement. Was unfortunately made redundant in February 2012, as a result of a budget-enforcement departmental restructure which resulted in three posts being deleted from the establishment.
There seems to have been a change of role in this case ... he is not the only one ... DCI Phil Jones took over on the 27th December 2010..
Darren joined Empica in April 2017 as the next step in a career spanning nearly 30 years in journalism, public relations, corporate communications and marketing.
He holds qualifications from the National Council of Journalists (NCTJ) and Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).
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Darren Bane was Amanda Hirst's deputy at the time of the Joanna Yeates case. He lost his job shortly after that. He's the man with the dossier at Longwood Lane on Xmas day, just behind Jon Stratford, in your 2nd picture. Here is another picture of him at Longwood Lane.
Detective Inspector Joe Goff told how the murder had shocked people who knew Tabak in Holland.
He said: "He was somebody who was not particularly comfortable around women, uncomfortable in his social circumstances - even around his peers and, from their perspective, not the sort of person you would imagine could commit this sort of violent crime."
But in the info i have given.. he himself says he was Initial the lead!
Any idea why he lost his job?
Lost as in took early retirement per chance?
The DCI Phil Jones who made numerous appearances in connection with this case seems to have no other internet footprint. He hasn't won any awards, nor been involved in any other serious cases that we know of. You did find an officer at Avon & Somerset Constabulary called Phil Jones, but it was easy to see from his photo that it couldn't be the same man.
Why not draw the obvious conclusion? - that the Phil Jones allegedly running the Joanna Yeates murder inquiry was an actor, engaged to present a convincing face to the public, and to protect real detectives from intimidation?
I have no idea why Darren Bane lost his job, but I would assume it had to do with the completion of Operation Braid, which required huge amounts of publicity.
Now DCI Phil Jones, was The Media Face of "The Joanna Yeates Murder Investigation" and it was his leadership that was imperative in the apprehension of "The Murderer " of "Joanna Yeates"
He I believe was always running this "Murder Investigation" and `i believe that it was earlier than the date he told the Leveson Enquiry... The reason I give for this belief is the way in which the whole Investigation was being run... As a "Twin Track Investigation"... with A "Missing Persons Enquiry" and a "Murder Enquiry" being run similtaniously.. (IMO..
He hadn't returned to the flat, and was staying with a friend in another part of Bristol.. We went there in the early hours of 20th January we arrested him..
I'll refer back to what "Colin Port" told "The Leveson Inquiry" with regards CJ's Planned arrest"
The must have needed a "Warrant" to arrest Dr Vincent Tabak at the Address of Aberdeen Road.. and this would need to be signed by a Majistrate... I cannot see how it would be "Conceivable" for The Avon And SomersetPolice Force" to arrest someone at an address without such a warrant... I believe just like DCI Phil Jones Had written in his "Policy Book" about arresting CJ the day before his arrest.. He too would have written in his "Policy Book" at least the day before that the "Planned Arrest of "Dr Vincent Tabak " would be executed on the 29th January 2010..
Detective Superintendant Mark Saunders was the public face of Operation Braid for only two days - 21st & 22nd December 2010. DCI Gareth Bevan with his pizza became the public face on 23rd December 2010, as I now believe, to signal that Joanna Yeates's disappearance might be linked to the murder of Melanie Hall. From 24th to 27th December, Chief Superintendant Jon Stratford was the public face of Operation Braid.
I don't believe DCI Jones acted as a real SIO at all. I believe it was Anne Reddrop who was really running the case, perhaps from as early as 20th December 2010. She was the mastermind of the twin-track inquiry. There are two officers in this case whose formidable intelligence stands out, and she is one of them. The other is William Clegg QC.
Investigation Team as a Senior Investigating Officer ("SIO").
And thank you for pointing that out.... So was it DCI Mark Luther who was indeed the SIO of 'The Joanna Yeates Murder Investigation".... the same DCI Mark Luther that we can find "Nothing" about??
EDIT..... If DCI Mark Luther had such a pivitol role in "The Joanna Yeates Murder Investigation"... why did he NOT Appear at "The Leveson Inquiry:??
investigation grew, documenting al! media related decisions in my policy book.
At the bottom of his statement to "The Leveson Inquiry"..
Basically the question needs to be .... How many SIO's were on "The Joannaa Yeates Murder Investigation "???
Who is he refering to....??
from the SIO, DCI Phillip Jones.
(53) Who set this strategy?
Communications and the Gold Commander.
I: do not hold that view, quite the contrary.
informed and, if necessary, detailed basis.
being visible. I had a discussion with DCI Jones along these lines.
Response’ It is absolutely necessary to have a press office.
side tracked by having to deal with media issues.