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00:00 One moment, Christopher Jeffreys was a concerned landlord and neighbour.

00:07 The next, he was a murder suspect, an innocent man and a life changed forever.

00:12 Well, I think I was probably just numb at the time.

00:16 With the shock of it all, I was able to think of nothing

00:20 except what was going to happen next.

00:24 What was that whole process like for you, though?

00:27 In the event, I suppose, something which started to make me feel

00:32 really rather angry, that I knew that I was innocent,

00:37 nobody else knew that I was innocent,

00:40 but nevertheless I was required to go through

00:43 these very protracted series of interviews

00:47 during the course of three days.

00:49 And as police concentrated on Christopher Jeffreys,

00:52 Joanna Yates' real killer, Vincent Tabak, remained a free man.

00:56 Whether they were making other inquiries at the same time or not,

00:59 I don't know, but certainly a lot of their time and attention

01:03 was taken up with me, yes, and it did occur to me at the time

01:07 that perhaps the focus should be elsewhere.

01:12 And looking back now...

01:15 It's absolutely clear that the focus should have been elsewhere, yes.

01:20 The lingering suspicion and the attention it attracted

01:23 pushed Christopher Jeffreys into hiding.

01:25 He was forced to stay with friends and to change his distinctive appearance.

01:29 But for quite a few days, I certainly stayed inside all day.

01:35 I went out occasionally under cover of darkness,

01:39 but it wasn't for quite a few weeks

01:43 after I'd been released from custody, in fact, not really,

01:47 until the police bail had been lifted in early March

01:52 when I felt I was able to start going about more or less as normal.

01:58 Did you resent that?

02:00 It was certainly the most difficult time of my life.

02:05 His arrest had prompted a media thirst,

02:08 especially for intimate details about his life.

02:11 He was variously vilified as strange, creepy, lewd and obsessed by death.

02:16 Reading those and reading them in such a concentrated

02:20 and pointed form for the first time was very, very upsetting indeed.

02:26 Did you recognise at all the person they were reporting?

02:29 Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

02:32 This was an entirely foreign personality that was being foisted on me.

02:40 One tenant killing another has been just a small part

02:43 of what Christopher Jeffreys has had to learn to live with.

02:46 It is something that one could never imagine

02:51 in one's wildest and worst nightmares happening, quite.

02:57 But that nightmare, he says, is insignificant

03:00 compared to the pain the Yates family is feeling.

03:04 They have had to relive the whole of that

03:07 as a result of the court proceedings,

03:09 which must have been almost indescribably painful.

03:13 I can't begin really to imagine what they have had to go through

03:19 all over again in these last few weeks.

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies | show | 2014 | Official Featurette

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