A VERDICT is expected in the Lady in the Lake' murder trial next week after jurors hear Justice McCombe's summing up on Tuesday of more than seven weeks of detailed evidence.
Their decision should draw a line under a mystery that began more than three decades ago when Askam-in-Furness primary school teacher Carol Park disappeared in July 1976.
Her husband, Gordon Park, 60, of Norland Avenue, Barrow, stands accused of bludgeoning her to death with a climbing axe before dumping her bound and bagged body in Coniston Water where it lay undiscovered for 21 years. He denies murder. Reporter Jennie Dennett was at Manchester Crown Court to hear the final evidence.
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