Nicola Bulley latest updates: Police tell vigilante searchers to stop ‘breaking into empty property’

Police working on the Nicola Bulley case have urged vigilantes to stop the “breaking into empty property” to search for the missing mother-of-two.

A Lancashire Police spokesman said people who are “taking the law into their own hands” are not helping, particularly those who have incorporated burglary and trespassing into their approach.

“Maybe they mean well. Maybe they want to help. But they can help by remembering if they’ve been in the area and keeping family on their minds.

She added, “We will not tolerate online abuse by anyone, including witnesses.”

Missing dog walker Nicola Bulley’s last text before she ‘disappeared’ has been revealed.

The 45-year-old was last seen on Friday January 27 walking her dog by the river in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire. She was still signed into a Microsoft Teams call that ended at 9:30 a.m. when her phone was recovered.

Just half an hour earlier, the mother of two had texted a friend to book a play date. She sent the message at 8:57 a.m., just before she logged on to Teams call, locals at a village meeting were told.

A private dive team has joined the search to find 45-year-old Nicola Bulley.

The mother of two was last seen with her dog near the River Wyre in Lancashire on January 27. Police are working on the hypothesis that she fell into the river, although this claim has not been supported by any evidence and her family and friends have denied it.

On Monday, a private team of divers led by forensic scientist Peter Faulding was drafted in to expand the search for Ms Bulley.

Nicola Bulley’s disappearance is one of the “strangest cases,” said the head of a private underwater search team.

The 45-year-old mother of two has been missing since Friday January 27 while walking her dog near the River Wyre.

Lancashire Police said they were working on a hypothesis that the mortgage adviser fell in the water.

Peter Faulding told Good Morning Britain that police divers searched the area where Ms Bulley’s phone was seen and found nothing which was “highly unusual”.

A friend of missing woman Nicola Bulley’s family said “nothing makes sense” as specialized underwater divers searched a stretch of river that police believe she may have fallen into.

Heather Gibbons spoke on the banks of the River Wyre while Peter Faulding and his team from Specialist Group International used sonar to scan the depths on day 12 of the search.

Family and friends of mother-of-two Bulley, 45, have questioned police’s “theory” that she probably fell in the water while walking her dog after she lost her children on March 27.

Police have urged the public not to share conspiracy theories about Nicola Bulley’s disappearance online as they revealed they are examining 500 lines of inquiry.

The search for the missing mother-of-two entered its twelfth day on Tuesday and police continue to believe she may have fallen into the River Wyre while walking her dog on January 27.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Lancashire Police Superintendent Sally Riley said: “At the moment there is around five hundred active intelligence and lines of inquiry that we are working on to try to find answers for Nicolas family.”

Police have dismissed suggestions that missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley may have been the victim of a crime.

Supt Sally Riley, of Lancashire Police, said “every single” potential suspicion or criminal suggestion that had been received had been scrutinized by detectives and discounted.

She said: “I want to reassure the community that nothing in this investigation has been reviewed to date as to whether it indicates a crime, it has been reviewed and discounted.”