Friend’s remorse as physique present in hunt for Gaynor Lord in Norwich river

A physique has been discovered within the River Wensum amid the seek for lacking mother-of-three Gaynor Lord.

The seek for Mrs Lord, 55, who was final seen strolling out of her office at Jarrolds division retailer over an hour earlier than her shift was resulting from finish and hurrying by the streets of Norwich on December 8, had as we speak entered its second week.

Specialist police divers had been seen looking an space of the River Wensum on Friday morning earlier than discovering a physique, which they then pulled out of the water in a black bag. 

Norfolk Police confirmed a physique had been retrieved and that whereas it has not been formally recognized, Gaynor’s household have been knowledgeable. They proceed to be supported by specifically skilled officers.

Police yesterday revealed that they’ve ‘some indications’ as to why Mrs Lord left work early on the day she vanished, but in addition admitted they haven’t been capable of set up her way of thinking when she went lacking with ‘any diploma of confidence’.

Possessions together with her rings, cell phone and clothes had been present in a park within the metropolis hours later, whereas her coat was within the close by river.

A police dive crew helping the seek for the mother-of-three as we speak carried out checks at a selected a part of the River Wensum in Norwich, inserting an orange buoy on the spot.

An Environment Agency search boat was stationed subsequent to the buoy on Friday morning as a dive crew truck arrived on the space simply after 11am.

Two members of the dive crew might be seen surveying the realm, showing to verify if the water was secure to enter.

The buoy was positioned round 100 metres down stream from the place the primary focus of Thursday’s seek for Ms Lord had taken place.

Police divers with flippers might be seen able to enter the water in a park space additional alongside the river however after a telephone name was obtained, their equipment was packed up and personnel obtained again of their truck and rediverted.

Later two specialist divers helping with the seek for Gaynor Lord pulled a big object in a black bag, believed to be a physique bag, from the River Wensum.

The divers eliminated the thing from the water subsequent to the orange buoy which had been positioned within the river on Friday.

Earlier on Friday, the buddy of lacking mom Gaynor Lord revealed her remorse after she was phoned by her simply half an hour earlier than she left work however needed to dangle up after receiving one other name from a piece shopper.

Friend Julie Butcher had shared ‘gins and hugs’ with the mother-of-three simply days earlier than and the pair agreed to play tennis collectively after Christmas.

Ms Butcher advised Sky News: ‘I want I hadn’t have answered that decision. [I] Really want I hadn’t have answered that decision. And then she could have talked to me a bit extra or I may need came upon the rationale why she was calling me.’

She stated her buddy requested her: ‘Where are you, the place are you?’, on the decision earlier than Ms Butcher promised to name her again – however when she did so 5 minutes later there was no reply. 

Then, she obtained one other name however thinks it was a pocket dial.

Ms Butcher advised GMB: ‘It was 4.15pm and he or she rang me once more. It appeared like a pocket name. It simply appeared like she was strolling. So I assumed, “oh she obviously hasn’t meant to call me”. I simply want I’d have stored her on the telephone and never taken that telephone name since you by no means know, she may need stated one thing.’

Speaking in regards to the final time she noticed Mrs Lord, she stated: ‘She was completely happy on Tuesday and we had just a few gins along with her and the final time I noticed her she gave me a hug.’ 

She stated she was ‘upbeat’ and speaking about Christmas simply days earlier than she disappeared.

‘We had been speaking. She was a bit busy however we had been speaking about Christmas and he or she appeared high quality, no completely different to the standard Gaynor. She was fairly upbeat and completely happy,’ Ms Butcher advised the BBC.

Ms Butcher stated: ‘I maintain going over the dialog. If I hadn’t answered that decision [from her client] would she have talked to me?  I really feel horrible. I really feel so sorry for the household… It’s not like Gaynor to do that.’ 

Speaking to GMB, she stated of Mr Lord: ‘He appeared like he hadn’t slept. He sounded dreadful, as you’d in case your spouse hadn’t come residence.’

Speaking close to the spot in Wensum Park the place Mrs Lord is believed to have gone into the water, Chief Superintendent Dave Buckley of Norfolk Police stated it’ll take ‘a few days’ or longer to finish the search of the stretch of river, which has included utilizing sonar gear.

‘It’s very, very difficult – the river may be very, very stuffed with water with all of the rain, stuffed with a lot of particles,’ he stated. The divers can see about one foot in entrance of them, so it is an awfully difficult setting for them to work in.’

Mr Buckley added that the pressure is holding an open thoughts about what occurred to to Mrs Lord however that ‘every thing we all know is pointing to a excessive likelihood that Gaynor went into the water’.

‘We’ve obtained some indications as to why she behaved the best way wherein she did however what we’re doing is we’re simply working backwards now to truly really perceive what could have taken place.

‘We’re simply cautious of every thing we all know in the intervening time as a result of clearly we have ended up within the scenario now we have, which isn’t typical.’ 

Mrs Lord’s colleagues have insisted her behaviour was regular previous to her disappearance. A co-worker on the retailer’s Bullards Gin concession stated she appeared her ‘regular, completely happy self’ days earlier than.

A flooring supervisor within the metropolis centre retailer added: ‘There was nothing to counsel in any respect that one thing like this is able to occur… She did not present any indicators of misery or concern.’

But a buddy of hers, who was a salesman at a close-by retailer, revealed yesterday that Mrs Lord had advised him she was ‘feeling a bit humorous’ shortly earlier than her disappearance.

‘It was very nonchalant. She stated she was feeling a bit humorous, a bit off,’ the person advised the Daily Telegraph. 

He added: ‘We had a quick dialog about anxiousness. She did not say she did or did not undergo with it… She had no psychological well being issues that I used to be conscious of.’

Police launched new CCTV footage yesterday exhibiting the final time Mrs Lord was caught on digital camera, about ten minutes earlier than her second name to Ms Butcher.

Taken simply over an hour after she left the division retailer the place she works and several other hours earlier than her belongings had been discovered, she might be seen strolling calmly alongside St Augustines Street within the metropolis centre. 

She was later noticed by a lady, who stated Mrs Lord appeared ‘fairly calm’ as she carried out a yoga pose along with her coat on the bottom beside her.

Norfolk Police, who’ve obtained round 30 calls from members of the general public in response to appeals for data, do not consider anybody else was concerned in her disappearance however haven’t dominated it out.

Chief Superintendent Buckley added: ‘We’re actually involved about her security. We are pursuing the inquiry that she’s lacking and alive.’

The pressure has been liaising with Lancashire Police, which dealt with the investigation into Nicola Bulley, who went lacking in comparable circumstances earlier this 12 months. 

Her physique was discovered within the River Wyre and an inquest concluded she fell in and died of unintentional drowning.

Mrs Lord’s husband Clive, 63, has not commented on the case.