It wasn't just the Press as the Police were right out of order too. They had divulged information to the Press which was on Christopher Jefferies' statement. There was no other way that the contents of his statement could have been leaked.
The way he was treated by the Police was awful too and when he was finally released from prison, he went home to his flat to find everything in chaos. All the hundreds of books from his complete wall of bookshelves, had been left discarded on the floor and some of them had been badly damaged. The walls around the door and around the light switch had been sprayed with the dark stuff used in the search for fingerprints. There was red and white tape everywhere and the floor was covered with polythene sheeting.
Galina, Part 1 is well worth watching if you can download it. It reveals so much about Christopher Jefferies, not just his eccentricities but his social and work life too. In part 1, Joanna asks Mr Jefferies if she can use part of the garden to grow herbs, hence the boyfriend going ahead with it in her memory.