A search-and-rescue expert helping to look for Nicola Bulley has claimed that he would have found her already if the police's 'working hypothesis' of her falling in the river was correct.
Nicola, 45, vanished on Friday January 27, while walking her dog Willow along the River Wyre, in the Lancashire village of St Michael's. She had previously dropped off her daughters, aged six and nine, at school and was on her usual walk when she disappeared.
Her phone - still connected to a call for her job as a mortgage adviser - was found on a bench overlooking the river. Peter Faulding's Specialist Internationalist Group firm has since searched a stretch of the river close to the bench.