A team of specialist underwater searchers looking for a missing mum will call off their operation from today, according to the head of the team.
The head of Specialist Group International (SGI), Peter Faulding, has said that he is "100 per cent" sure that Nicola Bulley is not in the area of river they have been searching with their specialist equipment.
Mr Faulding said the family are "clearly distraught" as he spoke to reporters at the scene on the third day of his team searching the water. Asked what he believes happened to Nicola, he said: "Normally a drowning victim goes to the bottom. There was a bit of flow on the river that day, I wasn't here on the day it happened but normally we recover them within a few metres. My only point there is that the police divers did thoroughly search that stretch of water - a highly competent search in that part of the river."
