The Face of Evil by Chris Clark & Robert Giles

Author:Chris Clark & Robert Giles [Clark, Chris & Giles, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786062871
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2017-08-24T05:00:00+00:00

Black sat impassively in the dock wearing a grey jumper, white T-shirt and blue jeans; along with his glasses he wore a headset provided to him by the court due to his poor hearing so he could follow the proceedings better.

The first witness to take the stand was Jennifer’s mother, Patricia Cardy, who recalled the last time she seen Jennifer. While her husband Andrew, Jennifer’s father, and daughter Victoria, Jennifer’s younger sister now aged thirty, watched from the gallery she began to speak about the day her older daughter disappeared. The plan that day had been for Jennifer to cycle to her best friend Louise Major’s house, only a mile away, to spend a couple of hours with her.

Pat Cardy told the court how Jennifer had been holding her baby sister Victoria shortly before she set off from home on her shiny new red bicycle. She would never return from that journey. ‘I can well remember what she was wearing,’ Mrs Cardy recalled. ‘It was her favourite T-shirt, a white T-shirt trimmed with red round the neck and on the T-shirt were red strawberries.’

Mrs Cardy went on to say how she had wound up her daughter’s red watch before the little girl set off as Jennifer was punctual and didn’t like to be late:

‘She was a very thoughtful little girl and her time to leave was always 1.40 p.m. because she liked to get to her friend’s house for about 2 p.m. Most importantly, she liked to be back in time for Jackanory and for that reason she always checked her watch. Just before she left she had given our baby Victoria to me. She made a cheeky little remark about her weight – that Victoria was a little heavy.’

The judge, Mr Justice Mr Ronald Weatherup, listened quietly as Mrs Cardy recalled how she became increasingly concerned when Jennifer had not returned by dinner time, and how, when she and Andy could not locate their daughter, the police were notified. As family, friends and neighbours began to search the vicinity, Jennifer’s bicycle was found lying in a field half a mile away from her home, thrown over the hedge from the roadside.

Mr Hedsworth for the prosecution then recounted how, in her 1981 statement to the RUC, little Louise Major recalled that she and Jennifer had once watched a TV programme where someone was abducted when they got into a strange car. ‘Jennifer said she would never do that,’ Louise had said.

Alluding to the evidence he had put before the jury, Mr Hedworth, QC observed that, while Black travelled all over the UK for his job, every bit of the evidence pointed to him being in Northern Ireland on that day just over thirty years before.

‘He was in fact on that Wednesday morning driving a poster delivery van off the Liverpool ferry at Belfast dock and commencing his drops at Belfast, then Dunmurry and finally at Newry, before returning to Belfast to catch the evening ferry back to England.’

He added: ‘This

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