The doctor gave a summary of what Carol had told him. He had first seen her on the 31st of July 1975. She made no mention of any violence on the part of her husband or feeling threatened by him. She just said that he was spying on her all the time. He diagnosed she was suffering from the depressive illness precipitated by marital disharmony, and he prescribed an antidepressant. He saw her again on the 7th of August of 1975, and on this occasion she had seemed rather happier. He thought that she had a disordered personality and was unstable in her relationships. Further appointments were made, but she never attended again, and in particular it appears that she had an appointment for the 4th of September which she did not keep, and obviously by that time she had gone back to Barrow.
It was probably at about that time in August when the children were again staying at Normanby, and Mr. Park came over from the Barrow area to pick them up and it was then that Carol decided that she wanted to return to Leece. Mr. Brierley said that he did not think that it was a spontaneous decision. He said he remembered what he considered a rather strange situation of Carol packing her things into the car while Mr. Park was talking to him in a friendly and unemotional manner, as though nothing had happened. They left, said Mr. Brierley, and he never saw Carol again and never even received a 'phone call from her.
Mr. Park said that he had gone to Normanby to pick up the children after their access with their mother. He found that she had packed her bags and was asking him to take her back to her own mother's house in Barrow. He said it seemed a little churlish not to agree as he was going back in that direction. He said that in the car they talked about what had happened, and they thought it was worth, as he put it having another go, and as a result then she went back to Bluestones at Leece with Mr. Park.