Nicola Bulley: Missing dog walker's parents speak of their 'dread'

The parents of a missing mother-of-two person spoken of their "dread" astatine the thought of ne'er seeing her again arsenic the hunt resumes for a seventh day.

Nicola Bulley, 45, was past seen walking her canine adjacent to the River Wyre successful St Michael's connected Wyre, Lancashire, astatine astir 09:15 GMT connected Friday.

She had conscionable dropped her daughters, aged six and nine, disconnected astatine school.

Ernest and Dot Bulley said the girls were "sobbing their hearts out" aft being told "mummy is lost".

Mr Bulley, 73, and his 72-year-old woman told the Daily Mirror their girl had been successful bully spirits and her disappearance was wholly retired of character.

Nicola Bulley's telephone was recovered connected a bench, inactive connected connected a enactment call.

A harness and pb for her springer spaniel, Willow, was besides discovered.

Police were called aft a subordinate of the nationalist alerted them to the canine moving escaped disconnected Garstang Road.

Despite a immense hunt involving the constabulary helicopter, drones, sniffer dogs, and an service of volunteers, nary hint of Ms Bulley has been found.

Specialist divers person besides been scouring the River Wyre.

Mr Bulley tod the Mirror: "There was nary motion of a gaffe oregon falling in, truthful our thought was 'has idiosyncratic got her?'

"I asked the sergeant from Fleetwood a fewer days ago, 'Is determination immoderate accidental of her being taken?' and she said, 'I don't deliberation that's the case'.

"I said, 'How tin you cognize that?' It's specified an isolated area, the lone mode that has happened is if it was idiosyncratic who knew her."

He added: "We conscionable dread to deliberation we volition ne'er spot her again, if the worst came to the worst and she was ne'er found, however volition we woody with that for the remainder of our lives?"

Lancashire Police said they were keeping an "open mind" astir what happened, but did not judge Ms Bulley had been attacked.

A key witness, who was walking a achromatic fluffy canine successful the area, was located and spoken to connected Tuesday.

The antheral "spoke to the pistillate successful the country who recovered Nicola's canine adjacent a seat successful the field", the unit said successful an earlier statement.

In a statement, her household said: "The girls are hopeless to person their mummy backmost location harmless with them and your ongoing efforts person provided comfortableness to them whilst we await quality connected Nicola.

"We inquire for anyone who thinks they whitethorn person immoderate accusation that whitethorn assistance the constabulary find Nicola to delight travel guardant and assistance them with their inquiries."

Supt Sally Riley said: "I indispensable accent astatine this clip that this remains a missing idiosyncratic enquiry and astatine this clip determination is thing to suggest immoderate third-party engagement successful Nicola's disappearance.

"We admit determination is besides a large woody of interest successful the section community, and we admit radical privation to help.

"However, parts of the riverbank are treacherous, and we would inquire that cipher puts themselves successful information and that the constabulary and spouse agencies' efforts to find Nicola are not compromised."