Anyway Carol did not return. Mr. Park said it was a long night when he lay awake waiting for a 'phone call. He assumed that his wife was in bed with another man, which was not good, as he put it. He said that he concluded that Carol had deserted him. He did not know what to think. He felt very hurt. He felt kicked in the face. As time passed the hurt was less acute, but he felt that his wife had betrayed him.
Mr. Webster asked about each of the previous occasions on which Carol had appeared to leave. There appeared to be about five of them. The September day in 1969 when she had left in a huff for about six hours. The occasion in March of 1974 when she had gone off with Mr. Foster overnight to Newby Bridge. An occasion in April 1974 when she had disappeared to an unknown destination for a day. The time when she went to the High Govern guesthouse, when Mr. Park had taken her there himself. There was the fifth in April 1975, when she was picked up by Mr. Brierley after the incident, witnessed by Mr. Shaw and Mrs. Walmsley, and Mr. Park agreed that on all those occasions when Carol had disappeared for more than a few hours prior to 1976, he had known where she had gone to. He agreed that 1976 was different. He denied absolutely that he had delayed reporting the disappearance to bide time, as Mr. Webster was suggesting he did. He said he was simply waiting for a response from Carol. He said he did not murder his wife and had not chosen the first day of the holidays as giving him the maximum time before the disappearance was noticed. He disputed and contested entirely that this was a deliberate choice of day, and he denied any suggestion that he had used the freezer to keep the body in, and of course there is no evidence that the freezer was so used.