Guilty Tabak had strangulation porn on laptop

Vincent Tabak, who today was found guilty of murdering Clifton, Bristol, landscape architect Joanna Yeates, had images on his computer of women being strangled during sex.

Tabak was today sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 20 years.

A jury of six men and six women announced a majority verdict (10-2) at Bristol Crown Court this afternoon on their third day of deliberations.

In the weeks before throttling 25-year-old Miss Yeates at her flat in Canynge Road in Clifton, Bristol, Tabak paid a prostitute having trawled escort and violent pornography websites.

Footage found on his laptops depicted women tied up in car boots – a chilling likeness to the way Tabak drove to Asda to buy beer, crisps and rock salt with Miss Yeates's body in the boot of his Renault Megane.

The Dutch engineer, who never had a proper relationship until he met his girlfiend Tanja Morson online, was accused of misleading jurors by portraying himself as sexually inexperienced.

However, he regularly trawled the internet for sex websites, including redtube and checked out live chat, strippers and escorts.

Tabak paid for sex with a call girl while on a business trip to Los Angeles less than two weeks before killing Jo. He had also contacted prostitutes in Newcastle last year.

His depraved secrets were not heard by jurors trying him for murder, but detectives privately believe he killed Jo in a bid to re-enact his violent perversions.

On the morning of her death Tabak logged on to a pornographic website and while there was no evidence of a sex attack on Miss Yeates, police believe he was aroused and gaining sexual gratification from the killing.

In the weeks after the murder, Tabak searched "Jo Yeates" on Google minutes before logging on to view several home-made sex videos.