Joanna Yeates murder trial: Vincent Tabak jury sworn in

Six women and six men will hear case against Dutch engineer accused of killing Joanna Yeates in December 2010 A jury has been sworn in to hear the trial of Vincent Tabak, the man accused of murdering the Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates. Six women and six men will hear the case against Tabak, a Dutch engineer, who denies murdering Yeates, 25, shortly before Christmas last year. Bespectacled Tabak, wearing a suit, tie and casual training shoes, watched from the dock, his hands clasped in front of him, as the panel took its place in the jury box. The clerk told the jury that Tabak, 33, was charged with murdering Yeates between 16 and 19 December last year. He informed them that the defendant had pleaded not guilty and it was the jury’s job to say whether he was guilty or not. Mr Justice Field, the trial judge, told the 12

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