A body has been found in the search for the missing woman Nicola Bulley after police were alerted by members of the public, Lancashire constabulary said yesterday.
Bulley, 45, a mortgage adviser from Inskip, Lancashire, vanished while walking her dog after dropping off her daughters, six and nine, at school on 27 January.
Lancashire police said yesterday that no formal identification had yet been carried out on the body, but that Bulley's family had been informed.
The force said it received a call at 11.36am yesterday about a body in the River Wyre, close to Rawcliffe Road, within a mile of where Bulley was last seen.
"An underwater search team and specialist officers have subsequently attended the scene, entered the water, and have sadly recovered a body. No formal identification has yet been carried out, so we are unable to say whether this is Nicola Bulley at this time," Lancashire police said. "Procedures to identify the body are ongoing. We are currently treating the death as unexplained. Nicola's family have been informed of developments and our thoughts are with them at this most difficult of times. We ask that their privacy is respected."
The discovery came three days after Lancashire police were heavily criticised for releasing a statement referring to Bulley's struggles with alcohol and the perimenopause.
It was these "vulnerabilities", coupled with the numerous sightings before she went missing, which led detectives to believe she was more likely to have fallen into the river than been harmed by a third party.
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