Nicola Bulley search LIVE: Police focus on the 10 missing minutes
Nicola Bulley search LIVE: Police focus on 10 missing minutes as hunt for missing mother enters day nine and family hold out hope she’ll be found alive
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Emma White told Sky News: All I know is that there was a significant influx of calls so they had to bring in another team to answer the calls.
‘So when you hear that news from the police you think OMG there has to be a glimmer there has to be something coming from that today to give a line of enquiry to go on.
‘So when the news bullet in came I thought of they mught hgave found soemthing we dont know and we thank every one that did come forward.
‘What I would say is we need to keep it to factual information as they could have recieved a hundred calls on that aren’t relevant to the case.’
Nicola Bulley’s family have warned there is ‘no evidence whatsoever’ that suggests the missing mother fell in the river, despite police confirming it’s their lead theory.
Police expressed concerns the missing mother-of-two may have fallen in the icy cold water on River Wyre while trying to retrieve her dog Willow’s tennis ball.
Specialist search crews have not recovered the ball – or anything of note – at this stage.
If Ms Bulley did fall into the water, she may have been weighed down by the heavy clothing she was wearing on the day she vanished.
But her sister Louise Cunningham urged the public to keep an open mind in a social media post last night.
‘Off the back of the latest police media update, please can I add there is no evidence whatsoever that she has gone into the river, it’s just a theory,’ she said.
‘Everyone needs to keep an open mind as not all CCTV and leads have been investigated fully, the police confirmed the case is far from over.’
Nicola was seen by another dog walker at 9.10am – the last known sighting – and police traced telephony records of her mobile phone as it remained on a bench overlooking the river at 9.20am.
The device was found by a dog walker at around 9.35am, with Willow nearby.
Friends of the family said on Friday that Ms Bulley’s daughters had been asking: ‘Where’s Mummy? How is Mummy?’
Her partner Paul Ansell, 44, said he would ‘never lose hope’ of finding her.
Police vowed to continue the search for Ms Bulley, to ‘bring her home’.
They have urged the public to look out along the river for the items of clothing that Ms Bulley was last seen wearing.
This includes an ankle-length black quilted gilet jacket, a black Engelbert Strauss waist-length coat, tight-fitting black jeans, long green walking socks, ankle-length green Next wellies, a necklace and a pale blue Fitbit.
Multi-agency searches for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley have entered a ninth day, as her heartbroken friends and family – including two young daughters – hold on to hope for her return.
Search teams from Lancashire Constabulary are continuing to trawl the River Wyre near St Michael’s, working on the hypothesis that the 45-year-old mortgage adviser, from nearby Inskip, could have fallen in.
Their search has been aided by specialists and divers from HM Coastguard, mountain rescue, and Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service – with sniffer dogs, drones, and police helicopters deployed.
Detectives are also working behind the scenes to analyse CCTV and dashcam videos, and members of the public with footage which could be useful have been urged to come forward.
Police believe Ms Bulley went missing in just ‘a 10-minute window’ while she was walking her dog, Willow, close to the River Wyre, after dropping off her daughters – aged six and nine – at school.
Ms Bulley had logged in to a Microsoft Teams call at 9.01am, which ended at 9.30am with her phone still connected to the call.
Good morning, and welcome to today’s coverage of the search for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley.
Here you can follow all the latest news as police continue the search a week after she disappeared on a dog walk.
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