The last known movements of missing mum Nicola Bulley before she disappeared last Friday have been confirmed by police. New satellite images have traced the steps her dog walk at the River Wyre in Sti Michael's, Lancashire.
Officers have released the image which shows the mum-of-two's steps through a woodland area and surrounding field - in addition to details about the last known sighting of the mortgage advisor. Nicola, 45 had dropped her daughters off at school before setting off on a walk with her brown spaniel Willow on January 27.
She arrived at a gate or bench at around 8.46am, which is marked on the satellite image, the Mirror reports. Nicola is thought to have walked along a path past a lower and upper field and a hedgerow before being last spotted at around 9.10am.
Police have also now released an image of a potential witness that they believe was in the area at the same time the mother vanished. The potential witness is seen wearing a red and white coat with a fur hood, light coloured trousers and a light bobble hat while they too walk their dog.
Around 40 minutes after Nicola's last sighting, a local raised the alarm when they recognised her "worried" dog Willow wandering around alone without her harness. The mum's mobile phone was also found abandoned nearby and police confirmed her last call had been on Teams through her work, but her camera had been off and she was also muted.
Nicola has now been missing for a week and has not been seen or heard from any of her friends or family since then. Her disappearance has sparked a huge search along the River Wyre since then. Lancashire Police have said they don't have any reason to believe that there is any third party involvement.
Regarding their new potential witness, a spokesperson for Lancashire Police said: "We would now like to speak to the woman pictured on the CCTV image, who we believe was in the area at the time Nicola was last seen and who may have information that could help us. We would stress that the woman is sought as a witness and nothing more."
The woman was spotted on CCTV at about 8.48am on Allotment Lane, nearwhere Nicola was last spotted. She was also sighted near to the gate at the end of the street. Over the last couple of days, specialist police divers returned to the spot where Nicola was last to carry out a more thorough search of the area.
A team of frogmen have been trawling beneath the surface of the River Wyre, while other officers searched the banks along with a fire service boat team who brought search dogs to scour the water.
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