Mrs. Maureen Price said she had seen Carol very shortly before the end of the school term at her home, possibly on the last day of term. Carol had brought some money for a Christmas club that Mrs. Price ran. Their daughter Kay had a birthday on the 18th of July, and Carol had said "You have got a birthday soon. I must remember to bring a card", and Mrs. Price said that the card was never brought.
Kay herself gave similar evidence. She was I think coming up to 14 at the time of this visit to her home in 1976. At the same point Mrs. Gardener, Kay Gardener as she now is, recalled Carol Park as a person she said like every other witness that she was bubbly. She did come across Mr. Park, and in her view he was very strict and stern. She recalls meal times at the Park house, when the children were made to eat up everything on the plates, which was more strict than happened at her own home. She also remembered Carol Park's visit to her home shortly before her birthday. She said that Carol had said "I will come on your birthday with your present", and she never did. Mrs. Gardener never saw her again.
Mr. McWilliams also had a birthday very close to that time, the 17th of July was his. He thinks he saw Carol Park on either the 15th or the 16th. On this occasion she had come on her own to Mr. McWilliams's house. She talked about attempts to find her natural parents and said she had been making some progress. She thought her family may have been from the South and that her father may have been an army man. She stayed for about an hour, and they parted on the usual friendly terms and nothing appeared strange to Mr. McWilliams on that occasion.