JOANNA Yeates's killer has admitted four charges of possessing indecent images of children.
Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak, 37, was jailed for life in October 2011 after being convicted of killing his 25-year-old neighbour at her flat in Clifton, Bristol.
Tabak strangled Miss Yeates, whose boyfriend was away for the weekend, for sexual thrills on December 17 2010.
He dumped her partially-clothed body on a snowy verge in Failand, near Bristol, where it was discovered by walkers on Christmas morning.
It later emerged that Tabak carried out the killing after becoming obsessed with violent sex and pornography, with explicit videos of blonde women being throttled found on his laptop.
Detectives combing Tabak's home during the murder investigation also discovered 145 indecent images of children stored on the Dell laptop.
Tabak was summonsed to court from his prison cell in relation to those images during a hearing at Bristol Magistrates Court in December 2013.
He was due to stand trial at Bristol Crown Court today but entered guilty pleas after Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol, rejected an application by his defence to stop the case.
Dean Armstrong QC had argued his client could not receive a fair trial due to his notoriety and the portrayal of him during the two-part ITV drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.
But the judge ruled: ''I take the view that it will be possible for Mr Tabak to have a fair trial.''
Judge Ford said any jury trying Tabak on the charges would have to be informed of his conviction for murdering Miss Yeates.
''It is an extreme example of a case where prejudice is alleged because Mr Tabak has been convicted of murder in what I would describe as a high profile murder,'' the judge added.
''The allegations which the prosecution bring in relation in this case are relatively minor in comparison to that which Mr Tabak has already been convicted of.''
Joanna Yeates
Tabak, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and blue tie, was flanked by five security officers in the dock as he entered guilty pleas to the four charges.
He admitted four counts of possessing indecent images of children on his Dell laptop between January 2009 and 2011. The charges relate to 145 images, the majority of which are classed at the lowest category in terms of seriousness.
Two counts of making indecent photographs between 2009 and 2011, relating to 23 images found on external hard drives, were ordered to lie on file.
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