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(From Guardian Unlimited)
The Sun and Daily Mirror published three stories after the arrest of a suspect in the hunt for the killer of Joanna Yeates that could have "prejudiced" and "impeded" a trial, the attorney general, Dominic Grieve QC, told the high court on Tuesday.
Grieve, the government's chief legal adviser, said reports in the two papers would have posed a "substantial risk" to any trial Yeates's landlord, Christopher Jefferies, might have faced.
He added that material in the articles gave an "overall impression" that Jefferies, who is in his 60s, had a "propensity" to commit the kind of offences for which he had been arrested.
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