Twisted killer Vincent Tabak has been found guilty of murdering Joanna Yeates for sexual thrills.
He faces life behind bars for strangling his next-door neighbour before spinning a web of lies and deceit to cover his tracks.
Relatives of the 25-year-old victim watched from the public gallery as jurors rejected Tabak's claim that he did not mean to kill her. Instead they found he was a "shrewd" liar who had been sexually aroused during the attack.
The verdict comes despite prosecutors being blocked from telling jurors about Tabak's sordid sex secrets. He strangled Miss Yeates after becoming obsessed with violent sex and pornography, it can now be revealed.
Videos recovered from his laptop depicted blonde women being throttled during sex. Just two weeks before murdering the landscape architect he also paid for sex with a prostitute during a business trip to Los Angeles, police discovered.
Dutchman Tabak, 33, throttled Miss Yeates in a violent confrontation at her flat in Clifton, Bristol, on December 17 last year.
The petite blonde suffered 43 injuries during a desperate fight for life as he used his burly 6ft 4in frame to overpower her.
Miss Yeates, who did not even know her killer's name, is believed to have been dead within about 20 seconds of Tabak grabbing her neck.
A prosecution bid to include Tabak's previous sexual perversions was thrown out twice during the trial.
Mr Justice Field said it would be inappropriate for the jury to hear how he had cheated on his girlfriend Tanja Morson by paying for sex with a prostitute he had hooked up with on an escort website.
Twisted killer Vincent Tabak has been found guilty of murdering Joanna Yeates for sexual thrills.
He faces life behind bars for strangling his next-door neighbour before spinning a web of lies and deceit to cover his tracks.
Relatives of the 25-year-old victim watched from the public gallery as jurors rejected Tabak's claim that he did not mean to kill her. Instead they found he was a "shrewd" liar who had been sexually aroused during the attack.
The verdict comes despite prosecutors being blocked from telling jurors about Tabak's sordid sex secrets. He strangled Miss Yeates after becoming obsessed with violent sex and pornography, it can now be revealed.
Videos recovered from his laptop depicted blonde women being throttled during sex. Just two weeks before murdering the landscape architect he also paid for sex with a prostitute during a business trip to Los Angeles, police discovered.
Dutchman Tabak, 33, throttled Miss Yeates in a violent confrontation at her flat in Clifton, Bristol, on December 17 last year.
The petite blonde suffered 43 injuries during a desperate fight for life as he used his burly 6ft 4in frame to overpower her.
Miss Yeates, who did not even know her killer's name, is believed to have been dead within about 20 seconds of Tabak grabbing her neck.
A prosecution bid to include Tabak's previous sexual perversions was thrown out twice during the trial.
Mr Justice Field said it would be inappropriate for the jury to hear how he had cheated on his girlfriend Tanja Morson by paying for sex with a prostitute he had hooked up with on an escort website.