Mr. Park told us what he knew about that week. He recalled of course, he said that Carol had not got a degree, which you did not need for teaching in those days, but she wanted to further her career by getting a degree and that was to that end, and he remembered of course and produced in his evidence the letter that we have got, and he told us expressly that he thought the reassurance in the letter was referring to the affair with Foster that had been found out earlier in the year, but of course by the end of that week the seeds of the relationship with Mr. Brierley were sown.
Mr. Brierley told us he did not see the other man who was supposed to be coming to see Carol during that week. When he got home he got a letter from her he told us within about a week of leaving Keele University, and he had been told by Carol that she had left home and was staying at a guest house and wanted Mr. Brierley to 'phone.
Well, Mr. Park's evidence about that was that when Carol Park got home, at first nothing happened. She was a bit quiet, but otherwise normal. After about a fortnight she announced she wanted space and time to be alone, and she had decided she announced to move to the High Govern Guest House at Broughton, where she could sort out her thoughts. He told her, I am sorry, she told him where she intended to live, he told us in evidence. Mr. Park now accepts that he took her there at her request, and I have mentioned already that was not what he told the police in 1997. He denied when challenged about this, that he had only changed his version of events because he was trying to give an impression to the police that Carol had a tendency of disappearing without trace.