UK UK - Carol Clark, 32, found dead and partially clothed at Sharpness Docks on Sunday 28 March 1993

[tes1984]

Good spot. I think she probably meant 2.30am, but you never know for sure...

 

[rvlvr]

Edit: didn’t see your reply above before posting!

From this BBC article published yesterday:

Hours before Carol left the house on 26 March, she wrote a note for her boyfriend that said she was heading out to find work, but planned to be home by 02:30 the following morning.

The note appears to read: "Left again at 1.30 to go to the top of the road. If I have no work by 2 o'clock I will come back down at 10 past 2 if not and I get some work I will be back at 2.30pm. Can't wait to see you darling love you Carol XXX."

So she planned to be home by 2.30 in the morning, but wrote 2.30pm? I suppose she could’ve just got AM and PM mixed up?

Interesting too that police seemed to think she was alive ‘throughout’ the Saturday?

 

[tes1984]

IIRC the police could tell she was still alive on the Saturday because she had eaten a meal or snack fairly recently. Possibly a Cornish Pasty or something similar.

 

[rvlvr]

Very peculiar isn’t it, her note would suggest she had every intention of returning home in the early hours of Saturday, yet for some reason she doesn’t? Then there’s a couple of sightings of her in Gloucestershire presumably during Saturday daytime? If she was out in public was she there willingly?

 

[tes1984]

The latest police appeal says Carol planned to be back by 2.30am. There are potential sightings on the Saturday morning, afternoon and evening.

It could have been an abduction. The police questioned quite a few abduction murderers, although none of them match the ages of the recently arrested men.

I don't think she would have gone willingly unless it was drug related. CC was a long term heroin addict, and apparently wouldn't have accepted an overnight booking unless she had her methadone with her.

 

[tes1984]

You can hear Carol's slurred speech on the video footage. She said it was because of epilepsy, but her parents thought it was related to her drug use. Her parents said they knew she was a drug addict, but didn't know she was a sex worker.

 

[tes1984]

'For the past 33 years we have worked to solve this' - major update in probe

Carol was 32-years-old when she was strangled and her neck was broken

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Hmmmm.. the 69 year old suspect from Gloucester was re-arrested today.

 

[tes1984]

Officers detained the man at a property in Gloucester this morning, so presumably he's not one of the already incarcerated 'big name' offenders previously put forward as suspects.

 

[tes1984]

https://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/news/gloucestershire/2026/april/man-arrested-for-1993-murder-of-carol-clark-released-on-bail/

The 69 year old has been released on bail (again).

I'm not sure why he wasn't held for the maximum available time.

I also wonder how the arrested 48 year old fits into all this.

 

[Hustling01]

Glad its a case they are working on i remember when it happened. I was a teen at the time tho. Hopefully they get a conviction