More details have emerged about the mother-of-two who went missing on a footpath, with her partner and parents now speaking out about her disappearance.
Nicola Bulley, 45, went missing on (January 27), with the last sighting of her on a footpath while she was walking her dog near the River Wyre in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire, at around 9:15 AM, per the BBC.
The alarm about her disappearance was raised at around 10:30 AM after another dog walker noticed Nicola's brown cocker spaniel running around by itself with no owner in sight.
Questions have been raised about how the 45-year-old suddenly went missing, as her phone was found on a park bench still connected to a work conference call.
Nicola’s parents - Ernest, 73, and Dot, 72 - spoke to the Mirror where they vowed never to stop searching for their daughter. "If the worst came to the worst and she was never found, how will we deal with that for the rest of our lives?" they said.
Drones and helicopters have been drafted in to help search for the missing woman, but there has been no luck as of yet.
The Daily Mail reported that the local resident who found Nicola's dog described the canine as being dry, indicating it hadn't been in the river, but it was in an "agitated state."
Ernest revealed there is no reason to believe that the mother-of-two left of her own accord, as: "She had done her work and she was very upbeat about getting her mortgage sorted."
He also described his last interaction with his daughter: "I said we better go now and Nicola came to the front door, and I gave her a kiss and told her I loved her and that was the last conversation I had with her."
Ernest also revealed that he had a conversation with the police who are looking for his daughter, and they revealed that they don't believe that she was taken.
Nicola's partner Paul shared his heartbreak with the Daily Mail: "All we can say is we need to find her. She’s got two little girls that need their mummy home. We have got to get some good news now."
Volunteer rescue teams have searched a large abandoned house across the river, opposite the bench from where her phone was found, but they don't have the ability to go inside.
Police have also spoken to a witness who is believed to be the last person to see Nicola before she vanished. He is an unidentified man, aged around 70, white, 6ft tall, and well-built, who was walking a small white fluffy dog on a lead.
It has been five days since Nicola went missing, and Lancashire police are urging anybody with information to come forward.
