Mr. Walker I do not think added to the evidence about this period. His memory was not as good as his wife's, but he did say something about seeing Carol the following Summer, and I will come back to that.
Well, towards the end of 1974, Mr. Brierley said that he and Carol began to look for a house where they could both live. Carol applied for a job in the North East. She was successful and obtained a post at a school for children with learning difficulties. That was a school called Sunningdales, and somewhat later in the evidence we heard from Mr. West, the headmaster. She took up the job after Christmas of 1974, was highly thought of at the school, and Mr. Brierley said that he and Carol found the house they wanted, and this was at Normanby. 21 Scott Road was the address, and Mr. Brierley's son Michael moved in with the two of them. He was seven at the time, and was therefore about a year older than Vanessa and three years older than Jeremy. Mr. Brierley said that Carol was excellent with Michael, who had suffered in the breakup of his own marriage. He told you that they were in love and very happy.
Anyway there was obviously a large cloud in the sky in that relationship in Carol's separation from her children, and it was on I think the 13th of March of 1975 that there was the hearing before the Magistrates to resolve the question of custody. Custody was awarded to Mr. Park, with access arrangements formally arranged for her to see them every alternate week and for half the school holidays. After a little resistance to the suggestion, Mr. Park told us that he had in fact lied on oath to that court when he had said he had not had an adulterous relationship with Mrs. Walmsley. He accepted he had done that in that case with the object of misleading that court.