Anyway, going back to the Youngs, Mrs. Young said she saw the man proceed to lift something on to the side of the boat. It appeared to be a big bundle. She had initially thought it might be diving equipment, it seemed heavy. He just toppled the parcel over the side of the boat, and it seemed to sink. She said several things went through her mind. She thought perhaps it was an article he was going to dive to retrieve. She said she wondered whether it was a body, and remarked to her husband to that effect in a semi-joking fashion. However, that suggestion seemed far fetched. She said thereafter she looked in the newspapers to see if there was anything about such an incident. She first became aware of the matter she said in 1998, the present potential for prosecution, when she saw reports about the lady in the lake, but what she heard was that proceedings had come to an end and she thought that a man had been tried and that was it, and so therefore there was nothing else she could do, and she only contacted the police accordingly earlier this year.
Mr. Young's recollection was less vivid. He remembered the incident. He remembered it was the year on which he had been on crutches. However, he could tell us of the incident itself. All it was is he remembers seeing a man drop something over the side of a boat. He remembered a bulky-ish bundle. It looked odd and unusual. Mrs. Young, as I say, contacted the police earlier in January of 2004. She had been alerted to the present proceedings by her sister, who had seen an item about it in the media. She did not think she had been in the Lake District in 1997, because this was a period when they tended to holiday in the North of Scotland with their children. She thought however she had been in the Lake District in September 1998 and saw an article about the present matter on a hotel wall, and she thought it was all, as she put it, done and dusted.