Some 23 years ago last month the body of Carol Park was discovered by amateur scuba divers in a large bag at the bottom of Coniston Water in the Lake District.
The grim find took place more than two decades after the 33-year old schoolteacher unexpectedly disappeared having missed a family day trip to Blackpool. Her corpse was trussed up with 20 feet of rope and string in a foetal position and then wrapped in a bin liner, rucksack and a sack made out of a dress. This was all weighed down by lead pipe.
Just before the summer break, appeal judges dismissed a posthumous attempt to overturn the 2005 conviction of her husband for her murder. Supported by the couple’s children, Gordon Park had always insisted that he was wrongly convicted. Little over a year after a failed appeal in 2008, the former teacher took his own life in prison on his 66th birthday.
The latest unsuccessful appeal
