Police are sifting through 293 tonnes of rubbish seized from bins near Miss Yeates’s home in the hope of finding the packaging, which could have the killer’s fingerprints on it.
As he defended what he described as a “painstaking investigation”, Mr Jones added that more than 1,300 pieces of information have been logged, generating more than 900 lines of enquiry, of which 239 are being treated as high priority.