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What happened to Nicola Bulley? Search for missing mom intensifies along river banks

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Sarah Richards

Published Jan 08, 2026

On January 27, 2023, 45-year-old Nicola Bulley was accounted for missing while at the same time strolling her canine close to the Waterway Wyre in St Michael’s Lancashire, Joined Realm.

Seven days after Bulley’s baffling vanishing, specialists said that they suspect she fell into the waterway, however the body still can’t seem to be recuperated.

Notwithstanding, specialists kept up with that this is a missing individual’s case. They are right now chasing after the speculation that Bulley, a home loan counselor from Inskip, Lancashire, fell into the waterway, as they have no proof to trust a treacherous contribution in her vanishing.

Specialists have built a course of events around Nicola Bulley’s vanishing to be between 8.45 am and 9.30 am
As the inquiry increased for the missing mother-of-two, Nicola Bulley, Lancashire Police said that they are dealing with a hypothesis that she slipped into the waterway while strolling her canine, Willow, around 9.30 am on 27 January 2023.

Specialists said that Bulley was most recently seen at around 9:10 am by an observer nearby with her canine in the wake of dropping off her little girls, matured six and nine, at school. Police were made aware of Bulley’s vanishing when her canine was spotted running free around Garstang Street for around 25 minutes when an observer last saw her.

Police, who have developed a timetable around Bulley’s vanishing, said that she was first spotted close to the stream with a canine around 8.45 am. Around 8:50 am, a canine walker and a colleague of Bulley saw her with the canine nearby. After ten minutes, the missing mother purportedly signed into a group call at 9 am and stayed on the web, despite the fact that the call finished at 9.30 am.

After five minutes, her telephone and the pet were found on a seat close to the waterway by another canine walker who cautioned the specialists. Not long after, Lancashire Police brushed the region and really look at the observation film to lead them to a piece of information on the vanishing of Nicola Bulley. In any case, specialists who have checked the reconnaissance film said they have no great explanation to accept that Bulley left the region. They further noticed that she could have fallen into the stream.

In the mean time, The Gatekeeper detailed that jumpers were seen looking through the Waterway Wyre, where Bulley’s possessions were tracked down on the seat.

Nicola’s dad, Ernie Bulley, said her young little girls actually accepted that their mom would get back:

It takes 3.2 seconds to RT and help find her missing mum #Nicola #Bulley who was last seen walking her dog near a Lancashire river she was last seen on the morning of Jan 27 walking her dog on a towpath by the River Wyre off #Garstang Road please call 116 000 with any information

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“There are two small kids there trusting that their mummy will return and we need her back clearly additionally, yet in the event that Nicola is out there assuming she’s watching this, all we might want to say is: ‘Get back home, contact the police, reach ourselves and we simply need you back.” He further added:

“Furthermore, they realize that Mummy’s missing however they realize that she will be getting back home and everybody is searching for her so it’s inevitable before they’re thinking to them, that she will stroll through that entryway.”
Police have requested individuals with data on the vanishing from Nicola Bulley to contact policing.