A neighbour strangled Joanna Yeates then sent a text to his girlfriend saying he was bored, a court has heard.
In the days after killing the blonde landscape architect, Vincent Tabak attended parties and dinners as he coolly maintained the pretence of a worried neighbour, the prosecution claims.
The bespectacled Dutch engineer looked on from the dock as Nigel Lickley QC, for the Crown, told a jury he had already admitted the manslaughter of Miss Yeates. The 33-year-old denies the premeditated killing of Miss Yeates, 25.
Mr Lickley told the jury: "He was able to mislead and manipulate others and to hide his inner feelings," Mr Lickley said. Phone records showed he had contacted his girlfriend saying "bored" in the hours after the killing, Mr Lickley said.
Neighbours at a Christmas party near Miss Yeates's flat in Clifton, Bristol, heard screams as the killing took place on December 17, Bristol Crown Court also heard.
Tabak, who lived in a ground-floor flat adjoining Miss Yeates's home, killed her after she went for festive drinks with colleagues. She had got home and "settled down for the evening when she was interrupted by Vincent Tabak", Mr Lickley said.
He added that Tabak knew "full well" what had happened to Miss Yeates. "Having killed her, he drove her body in boot of his Renault Megane car and deposited her in Longwood Lane," he said.
"Before Joanna Yeates' boyfriend, Greg Reardon, had reported his girlfriend missing in the early hours of the morning, Vincent Tabak was using Google Maps to search for Longwood Lane."
Mr Lickley said that when police told Tabak they could forensically link him to Miss Yeates' body, he accused the forensic science service of "forgery and taking bribes".
"There is no doubt and neither is it in dispute as to how that young woman died," Mr Lickley said. "Vincent Tabak strangled her with his hand or hands. He held her throat hard enough and for long enough to kill her. He was in complete control and knew what he was doing."
A neighbour strangled Joanna Yeates then sent a text to his girlfriend saying he was bored, a court has heard.
In the days after killing the blonde landscape architect, Vincent Tabak attended parties and dinners as he coolly maintained the pretence of a worried neighbour, the prosecution claims.
The bespectacled Dutch engineer looked on from the dock as Nigel Lickley QC, for the Crown, told a jury he had already admitted the manslaughter of Miss Yeates. The 33-year-old denies the premeditated killing of Miss Yeates, 25.
Mr Lickley told the jury: "He was able to mislead and manipulate others and to hide his inner feelings," Mr Lickley said. Phone records showed he had contacted his girlfriend saying "bored" in the hours after the killing, Mr Lickley said.
Neighbours at a Christmas party near Miss Yeates's flat in Clifton, Bristol, heard screams as the killing took place on December 17, Bristol Crown Court also heard.
Tabak, who lived in a ground-floor flat adjoining Miss Yeates's home, killed her after she went for festive drinks with colleagues. She had got home and "settled down for the evening when she was interrupted by Vincent Tabak", Mr Lickley said.
He added that Tabak knew "full well" what had happened to Miss Yeates. "Having killed her, he drove her body in boot of his Renault Megane car and deposited her in Longwood Lane," he said.
"Before Joanna Yeates' boyfriend, Greg Reardon, had reported his girlfriend missing in the early hours of the morning, Vincent Tabak was using Google Maps to search for Longwood Lane."
Mr Lickley said that when police told Tabak they could forensically link him to Miss Yeates' body, he accused the forensic science service of "forgery and taking bribes".
"There is no doubt and neither is it in dispute as to how that young woman died," Mr Lickley said. "Vincent Tabak strangled her with his hand or hands. He held her throat hard enough and for long enough to kill her. He was in complete control and knew what he was doing."