<p><br /> The family of murdered landscape architect, Joanna Yeates, have released a statement paying tribute to the 25 year old.<br /> </p><p><br /> Speaking via police they said she was 'a beautiful and talented person who was destined to fly high.'<br /> </p><p><br /> They also say she was 'stolen' from them and that their lives had stopped as soon as they knew she was missing.<br /> </p><p><br /> Jo's boyfriend Greg Reardon, who reported her missing on 17 December said in a statement that Jo was 'a beautiful woman in mind, body and soul.'<br /> </p><p><br /> Miss Yeates was found strangled on Christmas Day, a few miles from her home in Bristol.<br /> </p><p><br /> Police have been granted more time to question her landlord Chris Jefferies about her death.<br /> </p><p><br /> Jefferies, 65, was arrested on Thursday morning and a magistrate granted Avon and Somerset Police an extension to hold him in custody.<br /> </p><p><br /> The development came after officers spent the day talking to Peter Stanley, 56, a neighbour of the retired public school teacher in Clifton, Bristol, who said he and Mr Jefferies helped start Miss Yeates's boyfriend's car the day she vanished.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Stanley recalled how they used jump leads to start Greg Reardon's car, sending him on his way to Sheffield.<br /> </p><p><br /> "It was a non-event at the time, but absolutely poignant now - what if we didn't get the car to start?" said Mr Stanley.<br /> </p><p><br /> Hours after successfully starting the car, Miss Yeates, a landscape architect, disappeared and her snow-covered body was discovered more than a week later on Christmas Day.<br /> </p><p><br /> Police confirmed Mr Stanley, who lives in a flat in the mansion to the right of Mr Jefferies' in Canynge Road, Clifton, is being treated as a witness.<br /> </p><p><br /> The 56-year-old has been helping detectives with their inquiries and was spotted on Friday showing the police a distinctive army-style 4x4 truck in the driveway.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Jefferies, who sports distinctive straggly white hair and was described by a neighbour as a "nutty professor type", was arrested at 7am on Thursday.<br /> </p><p><br /> The bachelor was taken into custody just 24 hours after he claimed he saw three people leaving Miss Yeates's flat on the night she vanished - December 17.<br /> </p><p><br /> The suspect is a prominent figure in his Neighbourhood Watch group and taught English at Clifton College, just yards from his flat, from the early 1970s. He took early retirement in 2001.<br /> </p><p><br /> He is an enthusiastic activist for the Liberal Democrats in Clifton and a member of the Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society (CHIS), which campaigns to conserve buildings in the area.<br /> </p><p><br /> CHIS secretary Rosemary Musgrave said: "He's certainly an active member and does come to meetings from time to time. He's not a member of the committee, though."<br /> </p><p><br /> In 2005 he was at the forefront of efforts to stop building work on fields near his home.<br /> </p><p><br /> He led the Canynge Road Campaign Group to save the fields from development and wrote a series of letters to Bristol City Council outlining the group's opposition to the scheme.<br /> </p>
