As emergency services continue to search for missing mum Nicola Bulley, a leading diver has indicated his 'surprise' that nothing has yet been found.
Peter Faulding of Specialist Group International which has been assisting in the search for Nicola Bulley via river searches, issued an update on the progress of finding the mum-of-two. Nicola, 45, was last seen walking her dog Willow along a towpath on the morning of January 27 after dropping her children off at school.
It is believed she signed into a work conference call at 9am, while a friend described receiving a text from her moments before, making plans for the week ahead. Nicola's dog was later found wandering alone 'bone dry'.
Appearing on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Faulding said: "The initial area where Nicola went in, where the bench is, the police thoroughly searched that the same day, and did it again days later. From all my experience, I would expect a body when it goes down and drowns, to go straight down to the bottom, and remain there until the body starts to decompose and then it will start moving.”
He added that the River Wyre does not have enough current where police believe Ms Bulley may have fallen for her to have been forced downstream on the day she went missing. Mr Faulding said of continued search efforts “today we’re going to concentrate again upstream in the non-tidal section of the river, including past the bench again, just in case”.
On Monday, Lancashire Police said: "Our working hypothesis remains that Nicola sadly fell into the river for some reason, but we remain open-minded, and we are continuing to carry out a huge number of inquiries."
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