‘Lady in lake’ husband arrested

THE husband of the “Lady in the Lake” murder victim who vanished from her home in 1976 and whose body was found in 1997, was arrested in connection with her death yesterday.

Carol Park, 30, disappeared from her home at Leece, near Barrow in Cumbria, in 1976, and her body was found in 1997 in Coniston Water, one of the largest lakes in the area.

A police source confirmed that a man arrested in Barrow in connection with the death was husband Gordon Park, now 59.