Detectives say they’re 500 energetic items of knowledge within the seek for mother-of-two Nicola Bulley – and haven’t discovered “anything of note” but.
Lancashire Police stay “fully open-minded” and haven’t but detected a “suspicious element”, stated Superintendent Sally Riley.
Speaking at a information convention on Tuesday, she stated her officers had carried out an “unprecedented” variety of inquiries.
Supt Riley additionally stated the drive had a group of as much as 40 detectives working each day to comb by means of the “enormous” quantity of knowledge gathered to this point.
This consists of data from door-to-door inquiries, calls from the general public, CCTV and dashcam, and knowledge from Ms Bulley’s cell phone and Fitbit machine.
Police have additionally recognized 700 autos that had been within the space on the morning Ms Bulley disappeared and are within the strategy of contacting the drivers to request any dashcam footage they could have.
Supt Riley stated Coastguard and mountain rescue groups had been helping within the search, whereas the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) had been additionally serving to the police with their inquiries.
“This is normal in a missing person inquiry and does not indicate that there is any suspicious element to this story,” Supt Riley stated.
“The enquiry team remains fully open-minded to any information that may indicate where Nicola is or what happened to her.
“Any data that is available in that signifies in any other case is being checked out on a regular basis and negated as every inquiry comes up.
“We are not closed in any way to any particular line of inquiry.”
Supt Riley added: “All of these extensive enquiries however have so far not found anything of note.”
Six specifically educated officers are looking out the River Wyre, close to to the village of St Michael’s on Wyre, the place Ms Bulley went lacking on 27 January whereas strolling her canine.
Detectives say their “main working hypothesis” is that the 45-year-old fell into the river and Supt Riley reiterated on Tuesday that this remained the drive’s perception presently.
But Ms Bulley’s household and pals have beforehand claimed there may be “no evidence whatsoever” behind this.
Specialist groups, together with a personal firm with underwater sonar tools, are finishing up complete searches over the river, however they’re but to seek out Ms Bulley.
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Earlier, a pal of Ms Bulley stated it “may be time to start looking down other avenues” if search groups trying within the River Wyre can’t discover her.
Family pal Heather Gibbons stated: “I think it’s incredibly hard, but up to a certain level, we understand it’s human nature, it’s natural for everyone to have speculation, because the truth is in this, nothing is making sense.”
A dive group from Specialist Group International (SGI) joined the search for Ms Bulley on Monday, with a £55,000 side-scan sonar.
The group helped search a part of the river on Monday, in an space round and downstream from a bench the place Ms Bulley’s cell phone was left, nonetheless linked to a piece name.
Chief govt Peter Faulding stated his group searched one other stretch of the river, near the place detectives imagine Ms Bulley fell in, on Tuesday, however stated there have been “no signs of Nicola”.
“We continue the search tomorrow,” he stated in a put up on Twitter.
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Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Mr Faulding stated: “I personally think, if I rule this stretch of water out where we are working today, I don’t think she is here.
“I feel there’s most likely a 3rd celebration concerned.”
Police divers beforehand searched the identical space final week as an enormous hunt continued for mortgage adviser Ms Bulley, who lived within the village of Inskip, two miles from the river.
On Monday evening, Ms Bulley’s associate Paul Ansell informed Sky News she “has to be found safe and well” as a result of “I can’t put those girls to bed again with no answers”.
Source: information.sky.com”