TRACING NICOLA
Nicola Bulley cops reveal they’re taking over missing mum’s social media accounts as they examine her phone
POLICE will take over Nicola Bulley's social media accounts as they examine her phone, detectives revealed today.
Detective Superintendent Rebecca Smith said "further work" is needed on digital enquiries.
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Police will today examine Nicola's social media accounts 19 days after she disappeared in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire.
The force today held a press conference giving further updates into the mum-of-two's disappearance.
DS Smith said the family is "aware" officers will probe Nicola's social media accounts.
She also warned this "might show Nicola as being online", adding: "I want to make this really clear, we have control of this phone, this will be the police that is doing these enquiries and nobody needs to be concerned or contact the incident room about this."
DS Smith also touched on Nicola's Fitbit, which has been a main focus for web sleuths examining her disappearance.
She said despite expert technicians looking at the fitness equipment, there is "no further information";.
This is because it had not been synced for a number of days.
Lancashire Police today outlined the mammoth search for the mum-of-two in a press conference.
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Assistant Chief Constable Peter Lawson said there is "no evidence any crime has been committed".
Police also confirmed Nicola was treated as a high risk missing person when she disappeared, which is "normal".
DS Smith said the "main working hypothesis" remains that she fell in the river but police have always been "open minded".
She revealed three theories for her disappearance - the river, Nicola leaving the area voluntarily and third party involvement.
But DS Smith said: "There is not a single piece of information or evidence to suggest there is any third-party involvement."
There is also nothing to suggest Nicola left the field voluntarily.
ACC Lawson explained police have visited more than 300 premises over the 19-day search.
Police have also received 1,500 pieces of information relating to Nicola's disappearance and spoken to 300 people.
The nation has been after her mobile was found on a bench still connected to a work conference call.
Nicola’s pet springer spaniel Willow was also found – but there was no trace of the mum-of-two.
Lancashire Police said previously their “main working hypothesis” is that Nicola had “sadly fallen in the river”.
But the force has been criticised for focusing so heavily on the theory by experts and Nicola's friends and family.
Her partner Paul Ansell believes "something happened" on the day she disappeared as people do not just "vanish into thin air".
Nicola has been described as white, 5ft 3ins tall with light-brown shoulder-length hair.
She was last seen wearing an ankle-length black quilted gilet jacket with a black Engelbert Strauss waist-length coat underneath and black tight-fitting jeans.
She had long green walking socks tucked into her jeans, ankle-length green Next wellies, a necklace and a pale blue Fitbit on.
Nicola has an Essex accent and links to the Thornton-Cleveleys area near Blackpool.
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Anybody with information about where she might be is asked to call 101, quoting log 473 of January 27, or ring 999 for immediate sightings.
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