Mr. Park also told us about this conversation. He said he had gone around to tell the Prices that Carol was not with him. He thought that Ivor Price ought to know and he might be able to offer insight into her disappearance. He went to the Price house, knocked on the door. He told Ivor that Carol was not there. Ivor had asked how long had she been away and Gordon Park said that he had told him six weeks. Mr. Price was quite cross. He asked whether Gordon Park had reported the matter. He had replied that he had not, and he said he did that afterwards through Foresters, his solicitors.
Mrs. Farmer, Carol Park's long standing college friend, said she had first heard of the disappearance when she had had a call from the police in Barrow making enquiries about her whereabouts. Mrs. Farmer said she had called Gordon Park that evening. He told her that Carol had disappeared. Mrs. Farmer had the impression she had moved to make a new life somewhere. The conversation had not been long, although Mr. Park had seemed level headed and calm. She had spoken to each of the children. As far as knowing about Carol's whereabouts on other occasions, she said she had not had a change of address notification from her when she had returned back to Barrow after her time in the North East, although she had written to her in the North East in November 1975 to ask her to a party, so she had an address at that stage. It seems that she had known about Carol moving to the North East and she had been able to write to her there.