On the morning itself, he said he had no recollection. He would have been surprised if the children had not seen their mother. It would have been unusual for them not to do so, as they often climbed into bed with either or both of them. They were permitted to run freely around the house. There were no locks on the doors to stop them doing so. Mr. Webster put to Mr. Park that there were locks on the doors at Bluestones. Mr. Park agreed, but he said this was only well after Carol's disappearance during his second marriage to, I think the lady's name was Catherine Sillars.
I should remind you and it is perhaps a convenient moment to do it, that in his final answers to Mr. Edis before cross-examination, Mr. Park told us firmly that he did not kill Carol Park and had never used violence towards her. He denied absolutely putting Carol's body in the lake.
Well, we heard evidence from Sabina Dixon, who lived nearly 30 years at Leece. People seem to live a long time at Leece, do they not? Mr. McWilliams was there 30 years and ..... there a long time, and perhaps it is to be recommended. Anyway, she recalls that on the day that Carol was supposed to have disappeared, she saw a car drive up to Bluestones and stay there for about 15 minutes she said. It was driven by a man who was not Gordon Park. It was a car which she believed she had seen there on one other occasion when Gordon and Carol were together at the house, although she is not 100% certain of that. She told us that a reason she cannot recall is she thinks she knew that the Parks had intended to go to Blackpool that day or perhaps Morecambe, and had thought on seeing the car that there would be no-one there. She said the car was a pale blue or grey Volkswagen Beetle. She said she could see the Bluestones property quite clearly at that time, because the shrubbery that we saw was not there in those days. She thought seeing the car was perhaps in the morning or at the latest lunchtime. She said that after Mrs. Park had disappeared, the police contacted her and asked about the car. They seemed to know about it already, she said, although she had not told them about it previously. That is something which perhaps we will never have cleared up. She was asked about how her recollection of this had been prompted. She said it was when she heard about Carol's disappearance. This must have been after the children had gone back to school in the Summer, after the Summer. She could not remember what it was that made her recall this as having been the first day of the holiday. However, she said she believed that at the time when the question first arose, it stuck in her mind.