Roz Purcell

We both leaned on the side of the car and made up our dispute about the motor car that was the cause of the argument between me and Damien.

After a couple of minutes, not more than ten minutes, Damien and I went into the pub and looked around for Elizabeth.

We got a bit alarmed and I noticed that Damien was getting a bit worried.

And now Damien started to look everywhere for Elizabeth.

He went to find his sister Mela.

Damien came to me and he said, do you know where Liz is?

And I said, no.

He said, will you have a look in the ladies' toilets and see if she's in there?

So I went in and I said, no, she's not in there.

So he says, well, she's gone.

He says, she's disappeared.

I don't know where she is.

So we immediately went out and started looking for her.

But out on the roads, in the dark night, Elizabeth had no chance against two men with bad intentions.

There's all sorts of things happening with this way, so they fit it in nicely in a lot of ways, you know.

They, the two-man guard that Nicky Crennan is talking about, were John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans, who had fled England from rape charges, come to Ireland and spent a year in prison for various robberies.

They were now driving on the Wicklow Country Roads.

We were going towards McDaniel's pub.

A man called David James MacDonald was driving in the same area at the time and later gave a statement to Gardaí.

It was around this time that Shaw and Evans also noticed Elizabeth.