The family of Nicola Bulley received the heartbreaking news yesterday that the body recovered from the River Wyre was the missing mum-of-two. Lancashire Police found Nicola on Sunday morning, more than three weeks since she disappeared after officers received a tip from two walkers who spotted something in the water.
The 45-year-old was last seen alive on January 27 walking her brown spaniel Willow near the river in the village of St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire. A huge police search was launched as detectives and specialist divers scoured the river Wyre for weeks and went out nearly 14 miles to sea in search of Nicola.
Divers used high-tech equipment to trawl the river and officers conducted house-to-house searches and interviewed drivers in the area at the time of her disappearance to explore all avenues. Police maintained throughout the whole investigation that their main hypothesis was that the mortgage advisor had fallen into the river.
