I have simply got to comment on the tragedy of Joanna Yeates’ murder and the arrest of Mr Jefferies. As Mr Yeates said, the end of the story is so terrible that really there is nothing else to be done – I hope the family believes in a positive afterlife and knows for sure that God does not make mistakes.
What is frightening me at this time is the media machine and the way it is digging and printing in a frenzy about a man who is described as a ‘private person’ with no dubious history at all. It frightens me because if the same thing happened to me (I am a landlord and an ex English teacher and a bit weird) I’m sure that after they’d dug enough through the dregs of my life they’d lock me up and throw away the key whether I’d been charged, tried and sentenced or not. The force of our often quite stupid police units has more dubious background than this apparently ‘upstanding pillar of the community’. I’m not an upstanding pillar. Doesn’t it worry you too, dear reader? The media is becoming more of an old gossip every day. I wouldn’t want to talk to it either as I am sure that anything I said would be distorted.
When they release this poor man and then one day someone finds him dead by his own hand, will the media blame it on the media, or on his interest in, not punks or goths or drugs, but a classical Pre-Raphaelite poet?
I pray for the family and the loved ones of Joanna and for Christopher Jefferies and for whoever perpetrated this terrible crime.
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