A search of a new area previously disregarded by police in the hunt for Nicola Bulley will begin today, a private diver has said. A team of divers from the private Specialist Group International (SGI) are offering their services in the hunt for the 45-year-old free of charge. The mum-of-two was last seen 11 days ago. Peter Faulding, the firm’s founder, has said an area further upstream which has been overlooked by Lancashire police will be scoured today.
He told GB News: “We just need to rule everything out. Somebody could have put the phone on the bench, somebody could have found it and put it on the bench, just on the nearest bench. We don’t know.
“Nobody knows, this is a complete mystery, this whole thing and normally if somebody falls in the water, if Nicola went in here, her body would have gone straight to the bottom.
“It would remain there and police divers would have found her that day without doubt.”
Lancashire Police are desperately searching for Ms Bulley and have said their “main working hypothesis” is that she fell into the River Wyre.
They believe “this is not suspicious but a tragic case of a missing person”.
The force has said sightings of the missing 45-year-old how her movements from the school where she dropped off her two daughters along a path next to the river and into a field.
Officers have now turned their attention to focusing their inquiries on the river path which leads from the fields back to a road.
Mr Faulding added: “She could be in this part of the river. If Nicola is not here, then I don’t know where she’s gone. She’s disappeared off the face of the earth and I’m pretty confident in saying that.
“There could be a third party involved, she could have run away somewhere. But I had a long chat with Nicola’s partner Paul, who’s been ruled out of this investigation, he’s distraught.
“There’s a lot of horrible stuff going around on social media. People [with] different theories and we just need to get on with the job.”
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