an underwater search for the missing nicola bully The release follows a new appeal from his partner, who said his two daughters “hugely” miss him and “want him back”.
The search for 45-year-old Bulley has entered its 11th day after he went missing on January 27 in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire.
In a statement released on Monday via Lancashire PoliceHer partner Paul Ansell said: “I have two little girls who miss their mother very much and who want their mother back.”
Later on Monday night, the head of a team of private underwater search experts cast doubt on the force’s current working hypothesis that Ms Bulley had fallen into the river.
Specialist Group International (SGI) on Tuesday before the start of its second day of searching the River Wyre, peter Faulding said he did not think the missing mother was in the water.
speaking with talk tvMr Faulding – a leading forensic investigative expert and founder of SIG – said: “I personally don’t think she is in the river, that’s my gut instinct at this point.”
He said his team of divers would go back upstream on Tuesday to once again search near the point where Ms Bulle’s mobile phone was found on a bench.
group, which is based in dorkingSurrey, and is volunteering his services free of charge, is using specialist sonar equipment to search for Ms Bulley in the River Wyre.
After searching “three or four miles” of the river until dark with Lancashire Police on Monday, Mr Faulding told the PA news agency: “It’s a negative search, no sign of Nicola”.
He said his team would look on Tuesday from another part of the river “where Nicola originally went missing”.
Mr Ansell, her partner, meanwhile said in his statement: “This has been such a difficult time for the girls in particular and for me and Nicola’s family and friends as well as the wider community and I want to thank them Am.” love and support.
“We are also really grateful to Peter and his team from SGI for coming forward and helping to support the work of Lancashire Police as they continue their investigation.”
The force has carried out searches of the river and estuaries up to the sea using search parties, sonar, sniffer dogs, drones, helicopters and CCTVs.
On Monday, Lancashire Police released two new photographs of Ms Bulle from the day she went missing after she had dropped her two daughters, aged six and nine, off at school and then on her usual dog walk by the river Had gone
Her phone, still connected to a team call for her job as a mortgage advisor, was found on the ground with the dog harnessed, with the dog on a lead, on a bench on a steep riverbank overlooking the water. Was.
“Our working hypothesis remains that Nikola fell into the river for some reason, but we remain open-minded and we are carrying out a large number of enquiries,” the force said.
The force is convinced, after reviewing CCTV, that Ms Bulley did not leave the grounds via Rowanwater near the river – either through the site or through a piece of land on the side – and that she did not leave the grounds along the allotment lane or across the fields. Passage behind the Grapes pub on Garstang Road.
Officers are now focusing on the river path leading from the fields back to Garstang Road, and urged drivers and cyclists who traveled that way on 27 January, as well as anyone with CCTV or ring doorbell footage asked to contact.