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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Abigail Nicholson

Last text Nicola Bulley sent before falling in river

The last text Nicola Bulley sent was read out in court at an inquest into her death.

The 45-year-old was last seen alive taking her dog for a walk along the River Wyre on January 27. An inquest, which started on Monday, June 26, was told police believe Nicola had somehow fallen down the steep banking leading to the near-freezing water.

With the temperature as low as four degrees celsius, two of the world's leading experts on drowning concluded she would have been "rapidly incapacitated" from a phenomenon known as cold water shock. The court was told Nicola would have died within a matter of seconds.

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