abstract:Leece is a village on the Furness peninsula of South Lakeland in Cumbria, England, situated between the towns of Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness. It is primarily agricultural and features a few services.
Park, from Leece in Barrow, Cumbria, had claimed that Carol, his wife of nine years, had vanished from their home to live with another man in July 1976.
His trial heard how he bludgeoned Mrs Park to death with an ice axe in July 1976 and dumped her in the lake near the family home in Leece, near Barrow-in-Furness.