Two women have told the inquest into the death of Nicola Bulley of hearing a scream near the riverside on the morning she vanished. Nurse Helen O’Neill said she was with her dogs in the garden of her house on Allotment Lane, not far from a path that leads to the bench overlooking the River Wyre where Ms Bulley disappeared.
Ms Bulley, 45, vanished after dropping her daughters, aged six and nine, at school, then taking her usual dog walk along the River Wyre in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire, on January 27. Her body was found in the River Wyre around a mile from the bench, on February 19.
An inquest is today taking place into her death and is expected to last for two days. Ms O’Neill told the inquest: “I heard a scream, it’s not an alarming noise, it was just over in a couple of seconds. I’m quite used to hearing the children in the school out back, but it was not that noise.
