Detectives searching for missing Nicola Bulley are due to hold a press conference later today. Lancashire Police are holding the event as they seek to combat disinformation about the mother-of-two's disappearance.
The media briefing is scheduled for 11.30am. It will be led by Assistant Chief Constable Peter Lawson along with the Senior Investigating Officer Detective Supt Rebecca Smith.
The press conference will take place as speculation about what might have happened to the 45-year-old has continued to grow in the 19 days since she disappeared. Lancashire Police say Mr Lawson and Ms Smith will be happy to take questions from invited members of the media.
Ms Bulley went missing while walking her springer spaniel Willow in the village of St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire, on January 27. She had just dropped her two daughters – aged six and nine – off at school.
At a previous press conference on February 3 police first told the public of its “main working hypothesis” that the mortgage adviser fell in the River Wyre during a “10-minute window” between 9.10am and 9.20am that day. The force said her disappearance was not being treated as suspicious.
Her body has still not been found and detectives extended the search for her to the sea on February 3, saying finding her there “becomes more of a possibility”.
Ms Bulley’s friends and neighbours, including her next-door neighbour and friend Charlotte Drake, continue to flock to a bridge over the Wyre to lay yellow ribbons with messages which say they still hope she will be found safe and well.
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