Mr. McWilliams, then the neighbour from Leece, said he had found out about Carol Park going missing some weeks later. Again, later than what was not identified. He thought that Mr. Park himself had told him. He said this had happened in much the same way as he had been told about Carol's first departure in 1974. He thought he might have been told weeks before the police became involved was his evidence. Gordon had seemed concerned and mystified. He thought that he was angry as well, particularly because of the childrens' position. Mr. McWilliams said he believed he had asked Mr. Park whether she had gone back to the North East, but he had seemed to rule that out.
We had read to us a statement from Mr. Alexander Miller, a former police officer, who seemed to have taken the report of Mrs. Park's disappearance. He said he received a 'phone call from a solicitor telling him that a Mr. Park wanted to report his wife missing from her home at Bluestones in Leece. He put this as being in about July of 1976. It does not seem to be in dispute, however, that the report was actually made in early September. Mr. Miller said that he had told his sergeant, and at about two p.m. that day they drove to see Gordon Park at Bluestones. Mr. Miller said that Mr. Park told them that his wife had gone missing three weeks previously, after he had returned from a day out to Blackpool with the children. In accordance with standard practice said Mr. Miller they had searched the house and some outbuildings, but found no trace of Carol Park. Mr. Miller recalled Mr. Park saying that Carol had not taken any money or clothes, but he was not sure what she had taken or may have taken with her. Mr. Miller was unable to say whether the children were at home or not when he visited.