I think that was the principle evidence from Mr. Ide about the body ropes, if I can call it that. He then moved on to ropes and knotting associated with other locations at which Mr. Park had been present or involved. His house, the boat called Mrs. J. and from Bluestones. He went first to the exhibits from Mr. Park's present home, and we have those in photographs 23 and 24. He told us that number one was a reef knot, two was an eye splice with four turns in this case or turns or passes. Three was another eye splice with six or seven turns in it. Mr. Ide himself thought seven, and the defence expert had said to him he thought it was six, but six or seven. Number four was an example of a bowline. In photograph 24 below we have a sheet bend, he said, with an eye splice to the left in the thicker rope. Photograph 25, over the page, produced were three cords from the boat. Each revealed a correctly tied bowline. Photograph 28 also showed ropes from the boat, two figure of eight knots displayed, so he informed us. Photograph 26 was said Mr. Ide old .... recovered from Bluestones. In that number six is a sheet bend. Number seven is either an inverted knot or simply two half hitches. Photograph 27 is again Bluestones material. Number eight he said was an overhand loop, and nine a succession of half hitches. So those were, I think, his, that was his evidence about the cordage.
He concluded that the knotting associated with the body demonstrated a skill in knot tying which might be contrasted with a low level of skill where a succession of grannies or overhand knots had been used. The knots were all he thought appropriate for the purpose. In Mr. Ide's opinion on the other knots recovered from locations related to Mr. Park, they also demonstrated knot tying skill and also use appropriate to their purpose. He could not say definitively that the knots were tied by the same person. On the other hand, there was nothing to indicate that they were not.