Nicola Bulley was a 45-year-old mortgage adviser and mother-of-two living in St Michael’s on Wyre in Lancashire.
She was last seen walking her dog on the morning of January 27, 2023, after dropping off her two young daughters at school.
She was understood to have been walking her dog Willow, a springer spaniel, along the River Wyre.
Around this time she sent an email and logged into a work call which ended 30 minutes later, though she remained logged onto the call.
Her mobile phone and dog were later found by a bench by another dog-walker.
Bulley’s body was found 23 days after she disappeared, in a patch of undergrowth and branches by a river bend around one mile from the bench where her phone and dog were found.
Police who investigated the disappearance of Bulley issued a statement earlier to stamp out speculation after officers returned to the river where her body was found.
Police returned to the River Wyre in Lancashire six weeks after Bulley’s body was found in the water, ahead of an inquest into her death.
How did Nicola Bulley die?
According to an inquest into Bulley’s death, a Home Office patholigist said she died as a result of drowning.
Additionally, she was alive when she fell into the water.
Giving evidence at an inquest at County Hall in Preston, Alison Armour said watery fluid and fragments of dirt found inside Bulley’s body were typical features in cases of drowning.
BREAKING: Nicola Bulley died as a result of drowning and was alive when she fell into the water, a Home Office pathologist has said. pic.twitter.com/TSeMg0tWtb
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