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Immediately after those questions, Mr. Park asserted he had no motive for killing Carol. He loved her, she was the mother of his children. He said he wanted his wife back, and it was absurd he said to suggest that he killed her. He accepted that she had hurt him. He denied that in 1976 he had discovered other relationships, although he said he heard that later. In his words, if I have them correctly, he said "If you knew this girl, you could forgive her." He was asked questions by Mr. Webster about the location of the 505 boat. He said it was kept at Tower Wood to the South of Lake Windermere. It took 45 minutes to drive from Leece to Windermere. The boat was kept there on its trailer, and if he had wanted to move it, it would take about an hour to take the mast down and transport it. He told us the boat was 16 and a half feet long and six and a half feet wide. He said it was not possible to launch the 505 off a beach, and there were only two possible launch sites on the lake at Coniston. One was at a sailing club and another at a place where a vessel called a Gondola had sailed from. Well, that is what he said about the evening of the 17th of July 1976, and a question of what boat he had available at that time.

Just turning as I said I would to Mr. Rapson's whereabouts in July of 1976. Well, you have got the detail in the admissions document. It is probably worth, I would suggest, having a look at that. Not now. I think perhaps when you go to your room, just have a look at it again just to remind yourself of the detail, but in broad terms it seems that Mr. Rapson had been permitted weekend liberty from March of 1976 onwards. Sometimes he came to Barrow, it is said, and sometimes he stayed at Liverpool. It cannot be said with certainty where he was on the weekend with which we have been principally concerned, but you will have to look at it and consider where he might have been on that occasion.

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