I will take suitable breaks during the process so that we can stretch our legs, and I know how difficult it is to listen to one voice for any length of time. I am going to ask you, I think, to carry on listening to me now for perhaps another three-quarters of an hour or so, and then we will take a break.
Well now, as I say, I am going to try and put everything in a chronological order. I am not going to quite do that, because the first thing I am going to say is that Carol Park was born on the 18th of November, 1945. Mr. Park is a little older than that. I think he was born in the previous year. She was adopted, Mrs. Park was, in 1946 by the Price family and became the sister of Ivor Price, who was our first witness. He told us that the family lived at Leece near Barrow. Ivor himself had been born in 1939, six years older therefore than Carol. There was one further child of the family, Christine, who was born in 1951. She was murdered, as we know, on the 10th of April 1969, in an incident in which their mother had also been attacked. The necessary details are set out in the admissions document before you, and there is a lot about that murder there for you to remember, and I will come to aspects of it in due course. The murderer was John Rapson.
When Christine died at that young age, she already had a child, a daughter called Vanessa, born on the 6th of March 1968. Rapson was sentenced to life imprisonment, but as was the practice in those days, released after about eight years of his sentence. The matter was in the mind of Mr. Price, because he said he had been working at Vickers, the shipbuilders, and Rapson had been a fitter or apprentice fitter at that company before his offence, and applied for reemployment after his release. Rapson was in hostel accommodation prior to his release. His earliest parole date we were told was the 16th of July 1976, but this was delayed until the 3rd of September of that year. I will come back a little later to his possible whereabouts in the important time in July.