Police have released a detailed timeline of the 45 minutes leading up to Nicola Bulley's disappearance on Friday morning.
The
mother-of-two first started walking along the path lining the River
Wyre, in Lancashire, at 8.43am, having already dropped her daughters,
aged six and nine, off at school.
Her Strava account reveals it's
a route she took often and knew well, sharing pictures of her Spaniel
Willow frolicking in the field and in the river. On average, it'd take
her about 30 minutes to complete the loop and return to her car, which
her family say she parked in the same spot about '1000 times over'
through the years.
By 8.50am on Friday morning, she'd bumped into another dog walker on the path.
The
pair were known to one another and had a brief interaction as their
dogs played. The witness left the field a short time later via the river
path.
At 8.53am, Ms Bulley emailed her boss and by 9.01am she
was logged into her Teams call. Her camera was off and audio muted as
she listened in.
By approximately 9.10am, a second witness
recognised Ms Bulley in the distance. Police are working to try to
narrow down this timeframe.
Then, at 9.30am, the Teams meeting
ended. Ms Bulley stayed logged onto the chat room. By 9.35am, her phone
and Willow were found deserted on a nearby bench by another dog-walker.
Lancashire
Constabulary released a CCTV image of a woman in a red coat walking a
white dog, who is believed to have been in St Michael's on Wyre when Ms
Bulley disappeared on January 27. In an update, the force said she has
been identified.
The dog walker who found the phone earlier said
she recognised Willow but couldn't remember where from, and called her
daughter who raised the alarm with Ms Bulley's long term partner, Paul
Ansell.
Ms Bulley's heartbroken family broke down in tears today
as they pleaded for help to trace her, saying: 'People don't just
vanish into thin air'....<<<Read More>>>...
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