Well, in June 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Young were taken separately by the police to Coniston to see if they could identify the spot from which they had made the observation in 1976. Mrs. Young concluded the spot was at the place which has now been marked by Mr. Wallace, and we have seen that spot. It is a spot over a mile, as we know, to the North from the area where the body was found. She was satisfied she said that when she had been watching the incident in 1976 the boat had not been as far as a mile away. She was she said 80% sure that the spot she identified was the spot from which they had watched in 1976, although the car-park was no longer there.
Mr. Young went through the same exercise with Mr. Wallace. He was able to identify what he thought was the spot in 1976. It was the same spot as picked out by Mrs. Young, called Machells Coppice. When he looked to his left, he thought he saw traces of a closed off car-park he said, and the word he used was he was confident-ish that it was the right place.
Well, that is what they said. Did they get the spot they saw right or not?
Mr. Wallace gave evidence about that identification of the spot. He told us very little more. He had taken them from Coniston separately to the South and along the East side of the lake, and each of them had stopped him when they had got as far South as Dodgsons Wood. You have that marked on the map. They were both happy that it was not as far South as that, and Mr. Wallace confirmed that it was Mrs. Young who seemed to have the better recollection of the matter, although Mr. Young seemed to have a better recollection of the terrain as he put it. Anyway, I do not think he added any more to it. He just told us what he had done and the Youngs had picked out the spot that we all saw at Coniston.