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Jane Dalton and Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Nicola Bulley – latest: Any trace of missing dog walker will have disappeared, says former officer

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Specialist dive company boss looking for missing Nicola Bulley speaks out

A witness has told police he saw two men acting suspiciously near the route that Nicola Bulley regularly walked her dog on the day before her disappearance.

Ms Bulley was last seen walking her dog in a field near the river in St Michael’s on Wyre on 27 January.

The witness, who did not want to be named, said the “hooded” men were “carrying fishing rods” and “were trying to hide their faces”.

“It was very strange. It made me uneasy,” the witness told The Sun.

The two men were spotted at around 7.45am on the day before Ms Bulley vanished. The witness said “they could just have been two normal fishermen” but “they seemed to want to hide their faces, which struck me as odd”.

Meanwhile, a former police officer from the area claimed that any trace of Ms Bulley beside the river where she was last seen will now have disappeared.

Riverbanks and fields like the one in St Michael’s on Wyre where the mother of two walked are “not very forensically friendly”, the ex-officer said – especially as lots of boot prints from other people will since have been made in the ground.

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