
Christmas Day of 2010 took a gruesome turn when the body of 25-year-old Joanna Yeates was discovered. But her murder was not the only tragedy that took place. In the media frenzy that followed, Joanna's landlord, Christopher Jefferies, was villified by the press, and the abuse he suffered at the hands of publishers led to the downfall of the British media and serisously called into question their place in the reporting of crimes.