Roz Purcell

but he was one of about four people.

The thought ran through my mind that the girl who had passed down the steps earlier was the girl he was calling.

Elizabeth's friends were not going to find her because by this stage, she was in the car with John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans.

I find it really distressing to imagine what Elizabeth was going through now, as she must have been really beginning to panic.

When we got to Woods, we dragged her out of the car.

We climbed over a wire fence that was across the road there.

Meanwhile, Joe and his girlfriend Annette drove around the local area to see if they could spot Elizabeth.

After midnight, Mary Ann Green was driving home with her husband and son who had just finished work.

They passed Castle Tymon Woods.

the place where the men had described bringing Elizabeth.

At about 12.45am, when we drove home, we were passing by an opening into the plantation on the left-hand side of the road, about a mile from McDaniel's pub.

A vehicle was in the opening.

It was parked on the right-hand side of the opening with the back facing the road.

The inside was lit up.

The following 24 hours of Elizabeth's life in those woods was horrible.

The detail would only come to light through the Garda investigation over the following few months and years.

But right now, in the early hours of the last Sunday in August in 1976, as Elizabeth's friends went to sleep in a caravan in British Bay and her family went to sleep in Ringsend, nobody knew where she was and what was happening to her.

The next morning was a Sunday morning.

It's the part that never leaves my mind.

And at home in Ringsend, Elizabeth's then 14-year-old sister Kathleen was baking.