Well, I am going to turn to the evidence of Mrs. Park's two children, and that is probably a good time to take a break. So perhaps I could ask you to be back here for two o'clock.
(The jury withdrew from court)
(Midday adjournment)
MR. JUSTICE MCCOMBE: Well, ladies and gentlemen, just before lunch I had reminded you of the evidence of Mrs. Park about her marriage to the defendant in 1993 and her evidence that he is a kind and compassionate man not given to violence, and I am now going to proceed to what Mrs. Park's two children told you about him and what they could tell about relevant events.
Jane Marshall, the first of the two children, said that she had met Gordon Park in 1990, when she was about 15 and her parents were splitting up. After the marriage, she had got to know the defendant and his children very well. She agreed with a part of her statement that had been made in 1997, when she said at that time she had only seen Rachel on two occasions when she had been visiting from Switzerland, although she had been over on other occasions when she had not seen her. She said she did not see Vanessa. She said that her relationship with Mr. Park was good, she got on well with him. She had seen him raise his voice only on a couple of occasions. One was in 1997 when the police returned some property, because the police seemed to have some, .... apparently Mr. Park thought some unfortunate smiles on their faces and he was angry about that. She denied that he had to be restrained in any way. He simply raised his voice apparently, and the other occasion involved him raising his voice in a discussion about her father. Mr. Park got upset. It only lasted about ten minutes and everything else was fine.