Mr. Park told us that shortly after he made the report, the police came around to see him. First of all it was uniformed officers, but it was not long after that that two CID officers called Walker and Williams also came. He said they asked a great many questions over many weeks. They crawled all over his life, as he put it, not unlike 1997. He said he spoke to them extensively, but did not he thinks make the type of statement that we have seen produced in this court. He said he may have done so, but he seemed less sure about it. Of course in his interviews in 1997, he complained about the loss of a statement, but in evidence perhaps he seemed a little less sure about whether he had given a statement or not.
Anyway, Mr. Park said they had looked around the house, in cupboards and drawers and took documents away, but it was not the type of systematic search such as that conducted at his present address when he was arrested in 1997. They told him that it was being treated as a missing persons enquiry and it would be taken seriously, but the police said that if a body was ever found, he, Mr. Park, would be the prime suspect. He told us the enquiry continued until Christmas of 1976. At that stage the police had suggested that he and the children pose in front of a Christmas tree for photographers from the local press, for an item entitled "Mummy come home." He said he had done that. Thereafter he said the enquiry was scaled down, although he did see Mr. Williams the CID officer in the local area occasionally and chatted to him about the incident.