As the search for missing mum Nicola Bulley approaches the two week mark, one man, rescue and forensic search specialist Peter Faulding, has found himself at the centre of the opperation. The expert joined the search in its second week after being brought in by Nicola's family to work alongside Lancashire Police on the investigation.
Nicola was last seen while walking her dog, Willow, on Friday, January 27, in the Lancashire village of St Michael's on Wyre. Several underwater searches have been carried out in the river next to the bench where her phone was found, but no traces of Nicola have been found.
The diving expert, who was not being paid for his services searching for the 45-year-old, said his team "categorically" do not think Nicola is in the section of the river where detectives believe she fell in. On Wednesday evening Peter's specialist team pulled out of the search, saying they felt they had done all they could.