Well, in the same period Mrs. Price spoke of looking after the children regularly for two or three years after Carol's disappearance. This was particularly regular during school terms, although Mr. Park accepted that this did not happen in the period, the short period between the 2nd of September and the 4th of September, when the report was made to the police.
On the 22nd of November 1978, Gordon Park petitioned for a divorce from Carol. We have the affidavit in support of the petition at divider five. It was based on Carol's desertion. The decree absolute, that is the final divorce decree, was granted on the 15th of August 1979. On the 18th of July 1981, Gordon Park married Catherine Sillars. That marriage did not last long. We were told it was some two or three years. So up until about 1983 or 1984.
We had read to us a brief statement from Mr. Keith Harrison, who between 1985 and 1989 had been headmaster of the New Barnes School at Barrow, where Gordon Park was a teacher. He described Mr. Park as being very intense and a focused character. He said he never socialised with Mr. Park out of school hours. He did, however, remember two school trips with him. One was a canoe course at Windermere, and the other was a youth hostel trip to Coniston and Ambleside in about 1985 or 1986. The last trip, the one to Coniston, was with about 30 children and five teachers, you remember walking around Coniston with Gordon Park, and he had said to him it was a beautiful lake. Mr. Park had said "It is really deep, you know." He said he knew Gordon Park was a sailor, but he had never seen his boat.