An inquest into the death of Nicola Bulley will be opened today after her body was found on Sunday, more than three weeks after she went missing. Police were called to the River Wyre following reports two walkers had found a body.
Police had been trying to find the 45-year-old mum of two since she went missing on January 27. The body was formally identified as Nicola on Monday at a press conference held at Lancashire Police headquarters, reports LancsLive.
Nicola had been walking her dog in St Michael’s on Wyre after dropping her daughters, aged six and nine, at school. Her family paid tribute to the 45-year-old in a statement read by the force’s head of crime Detective Chief Superintendent Pauline Stables, where they said: “We love you, always have and always will.”
The statement read: “We will never be able to comprehend what Nikki had gone through in her last moments and that will never leave us. We will never forget Nikki, how could we, she was the centre of our world, she was the one who made our lives so special and nothing will cast a shadow over that.
“Our girls will get the support they need from the people who love them the most.”
It is understood that a man and a woman discovered the body and called police – who said they were called to the River Wyre close to Rawcliffe Road at around 11.35am on Sunday.
Police had erected a tent and cordoned off the lane while police divers were called in, but the road was reopened around three hours later once the body was recovered.
