Chris Jefferies was accused of killing Joanna Yeates and was therefore misrepresented by the newspapers. They used words such as 'oddball' and 'a loner'. It was founded in the end that he was actually innocent of the charges and while the newspapers came out with the headlines 'The strange Mr Jefferies' he hadn't actually been charged with the murder and had only been a suspect. People thought that because he was a bit eccentric, that made him a murderer and they spoke to old pupils of his as he was an English teacher, the pupils thought that it was weird that he liked old poetry. It was also referred to that he had a distant connection to a convicted Pedophile and so they assumed that he was a murderer. Newspapers were also accused of making the case biase. When it came out that Chris Jefferies was innocent, he decided to sue 8 different newspapers for his misrepresentation and has ended up becoming part of the levison inquiry.
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