Dr. Tapp referred again to the elastic material in the bag, and he told us that those items were tested by Miss Sarah Brownville. One of the items was found to be medical dressing, with several eyebrow and eyelash hairs attached to it. She considered, Miss Brownville did, that this together with other features suggested strong support that the plaster had been placed at some stage across Carol Park's eyes. The other two pieces of the exhibit, the rubberised material, had numerous short strands of hair which were similar to those recovered elsewhere from Mrs. Park's body, but Mrs. Brownville was unable to express a conclusion as to where those other items had had contact.
Dr. Tapp examined the brain, but he could not say either way whether there had been brain injury or not. The facial bones had been fractured into several fragments, some of which had teeth attached. There were other fragments and separated teeth found loose in the package, and the two largest fragments were from the zygomatic bones on the side of the face, which he showed us. You have got the diagrams in the file, and he said that the zygoma, the bone at the side, bore on the left a sharp edge, suggesting a cut rather than simply a fracture with a blunt instrument. He took photographs of the skull which he later reconstructed from the recovered fragments, and we have got those in the folder. You will remember the red areas on those photographs that show the missing parts of the face. He also found fractures to the bones of the left hand. The hands were examined by an expert in anthropology from Liverpool University. That was Mr. Connolley. His statement was read to you, and his view was that the two fractures on the hand were consistent with defensive injuries sustained from a trauma inducing blow, i.e. the person was defending herself he thought from something when those injuries were sustained. The view was expressed that the nature of those injuries excluded such damage having been caused on recovery of the body from the lake.