Missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley is likely to have fallen into the river while walking her dog and her disappearance is not being treated as suspicious, police have said.
Nicola, 45, a mortgage adviser from Lancashire, vanished while on a walk by the River Wyre after dropping her daughters, aged nine and six, off at school last Friday, January 27. She was last seen that morning after logging onto a work Teams call, her mobile phone and the lead and harness for her dog Willow were later found on a bench close to the River Wyre.
Lancashire Police have now said that they believe Nicola did not leave the riverside area. Superintendent Sally Riley said: “Our main working hypothesis is that Nicola has suddenly fallen into the river, that there’s no third-party or criminal involvement, and that this is not suspicious but a tragic case of a missing person.”
