Mystery remains over mum who took her dog out and never returned

Doorbell footage of missing UK female Nicola Bulley loading up her car connected nan greeting of her disappearance has been shared by friends and family.

The images shared to nan BBC show nan 45-year-old extracurricular her location earlier she dropped disconnected her young daughters disconnected astatine schoolhouse and taking her springer spaniel for their accustomed locomotion by nan river.

Mortgage agent Bulley greeted chap canine walkers arsenic she took a way on nan River Wyre successful Lancashire, bluish England, constabulary believe.

During nan walk, she dialled into a activity convention call, keeping her camera disconnected and microphone muted.

By 9.30am, nan Teams telephone had ended - but Bulley remained logged on.

A short while later, her canine Willow was recovered wandering alone.

Her telephone was recovered connected a riverside bench.

The 45-year-old went missing successful nan colony of St. Michael's connected Wyre connected Friday, January 27.

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She has not been seen aliases heard from since then.

Stephanie Benyon, a friend of Bulley's whose children be nan aforesaid school, told CNN that she is simply a "kind, loyal and thoughtful personification who adores her 2 girls and family and friends."

A hunt statement launched by Lancashire Police involving master resources is now into its eighth day.

Officers opportunity they do not judge her disappearance is suspicious and group "should not estimate aliases dispersed mendacious rumors."

This has done small to assuage nationalist concern, however, pinch immoderate section women fearful of going retired successful nan colony wherever Bulley disappeared, British tabloid Daily Mirror reported.

It besides comes astatine a clip of heightened mistrust of police, aft erstwhile London Metropolitan Police serviceman David Carrick precocious admitting to a litany of intersexual attacks connected women, sparking calls for an enquiry into nan UK's largest constabulary service.

Others retired stepping their dogs that greeting were nan past group to spot Bulley earlier she vanished - and it seems location was thing different astir her manner.

According to Lancashire Police Superintendent Sally Riley, Bulley was acquainted pinch nan area and would often do nan aforesaid walk.

A friend of Bulley's told nan Mirror that she had since spoken to 2 canine walkers who had seen Bulley that day, saying that she had been "laughing and joking" pinch them arsenic she passed by.

She was sighted by 1 canine walker successful a section pinch Willow astatine astir 8.50 a.m., constabulary said. Willow was not connected nan lead.

At 8.53am, Bulley sent an email to her boss.

She logged into nan Teams activity telephone astatine 9.01am.

"All of this was normal behaviour for Nicola," Superintendent Wiley told a property briefing connected Friday afternoon.

Her past confirmed sighting was astatine 9.10am, erstwhile different canine walker known to Bulley saw her stepping pinch Willow connected Upper Field.

Police judge her telephone was connected nan chair adjacent nan riverbank astatine 9.20am aft tracing telephone records.

The activity telephone ended 10 minutes later, astatine 9.30am.

A passerby discovered nan telephone astatine astir 9.35am.

It was still connected to nan convention call.

Her brownish spaniel was recovered moving loose betwixt nan gross to nan section and nan bench. Lancashire Police confirmed to CNN that nan canine was barren and did not look to person entered nan water.

Bulley's partner of 12 years, Paul Ansell, rushed to nan segment aft receiving a telephone from his daughters' schoolhouse that nan family canine had been found, Bulley's friend told The Mirror.

He quickly phoned nan police.

During Friday's property briefing, Superintendent Riley said officers were "particularly interested" successful nan clip betwixt nan telephone being placed connected nan chair astatine 9.20am and nan instrumentality being recovered 10 minutes later.

"We only person a 10-minute model successful which we cannot relationship for Nicola's movements," she said.

Using underwater drones, divers person been scouring nan afloat magnitude of nan River Wyre downstream.

On nan ground, nan hunt for Bulley continues, pinch officers utilizing specially trained constabulary dogs.

Amid increasing speculation and section information concerns, Superintendent Riley told nan property convention that their "main moving hypothesis" was that Bulley had fallen into nan river.

"The enquiry squad has undertaken a number of dashcam, CCTV and ringing doorbell footage. This has allowed america to destruct immoderate trace truthful acold of Nicola having near nan riverside, which is really important.

"We judge that Nicola was successful nan riverside area and remained astatine nan riverside area.

"We stay unfastened to immoderate inquiries that mightiness lead america to mobility that, but astatine this clip we understand that she was by nan river."

Bulley's family were near unsatisfied pinch nan police's theory, however. In a station connected Facebook, her sister Louise Cunningham insisted nan lawsuit was "far from over."

"Off nan backmost of nan latest Police media update, please tin I adhd location is nary grounds whatsoever that she has gone into nan river, it's conscionable a theory.

"Everyone needs to support an unfastened mind arsenic not each CCTV and leads person been investigated fully, nan constabulary confirmed nan lawsuit is acold from over."

Meanwhile, worried locals keen to assistance successful nan hunt cognition person been participating successful organized walks.

Benyon told CNN really nan section organization had travel together to thief find her.

"We person arranged walks astir nan stream from St Michaels up to Knott End for nan organization to follow.

Today [Friday] we person been stood connected nan main roadworthy appealing for witnesses pinch banners and placards.

"We are desperately trying to find Nikki to bring her location to her family and friends who each emotion her very much."

Superintendent Riley acknowledged location has been a precocious level of interest successful nan section community.

"However, parts of nan riverbank are treacherous, and we would inquire that cipher puts themselves successful threat and that nan constabulary and partner agencies' efforts to find Nicola are not compromised," she said.

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Gaining worldwide attraction 

Bulley's disappearance has drawn a batch of attraction from group crossed nan world and societal media.

One Facebook group, made by a group of strangers eager to thief find Bulley has much than 2 1000 members.

Sarah, 1 of nan group moderators was forced to make a station yesterday, calling for bid and support aft receiving antagonistic comments.

"I've removed galore comments coming that were uncalled for! Please only remark if it's a bully chat pinch each other," she said.

It comes arsenic Bulley's friend Heather Gibbons told BBC North West Tonight that galore theories circulating online were "hurtful" and "vile" to nan family.

"I mean it's quality quality - everyone's going to person their thoughts, their theories, everyone will beryllium speculating," she said.

"But to spot immoderate of nan vile speculation online - immoderate of nan theories that are incredibly, incredibly hurtful.

"I don't deliberation group are realising that nan family are sitting astatine location and are capable to entree and spot each of that."

Gibbons said that immoderate of nan speculation was "incredibly hurtful".

'People don't conscionable vanish into bladed air'

Bulley's family person urged anyone who whitethorn person accusation to travel forward.

"Something has sewage to person been missed. Somebody astir cognize something. People don't conscionable vanish into bladed air," her sister Louise Cunningham said successful a caller question and reply pinch Sky News.

"There has sewage to beryllium personification who knows thing and each we are asking is, nary matter really mini aliases big, if location is thing you retrieve that doesn't seen right, past please scope retired to nan police."

A connection released by Bulley's family said her 2 daughters, aged six and nine, are "desperate" to person their mother backmost safely.

Bulley's partner, Ansell, described nan business arsenic a "perpetual hell."

"We are surviving done this but it doesn't consciousness real. All we tin opportunity is we request to find her. She's sewage 2 small girls that request their mummy home," he said, according to PA Media.

"We're never, ever going to suffer hope, of people we're not, but it is arsenic though she has vanished into bladed air. It's conscionable insane," nan UK news agency quoted him arsenic saying.