A Home Office autopsy has taken place after the invention of a physique within the seek for lacking mother-of-three Gaynor Lord, as police affirm they aren’t treating the dying as suspicious.
The probe discovered no indications of third-party involvement, Norfolk Police mentioned, with formal identification set to happen on Sunday. The 55-year-old’s household have been made conscious of the most recent growth and proceed to be supported by specialised officers.
It comes after new footage of lacking mother-of-three Gaynor Lord’s final recognized moments had been revealed this morning as her distraught daughter took to social media to verify the tragic information {that a} girl’s physique had been discovered.
Mrs Lord went lacking after leaving her office at Jarrolds division retailer in Norwich greater than an hour earlier than her shift was on account of finish on December 8.
As the search entered its second week on Friday, specialist police divers started a brand new search of the River Wensum and tragically discovered a physique, which was later recovered in a black bag from the water.
Clothing model proprietor Charlotte Lord shared the tragic replace with buddies on Friday
Mrs Lord was caught on CCTV strolling up Bakers Road at 4.03pm on December 8
The mother-of-three (pictured) walked out of her office over an hour earlier than her shift was on account of finish and hurried via the streets of Norwich
Chief Superintendent Dave Buckley, Norfolk’s County Policing Commander, mentioned on Saturday: ‘The autopsy examination has discovered no indicators that some other events had been concerned.
‘Although our searches have concluded, officers are persevering with to work to ascertain the complete circumstances surrounding Gaynor’s disappearance. We will pursue all traces of enquiry to grasp why she went lacking.
‘Our ideas stay with Gaynor’s household at this extremely troublesome time.’
Wensum Park was closed all through the investigation however has now reopened.
Until right now, it was understood that Mrs Lord, 55, headed immediately from Norwich metropolis centre to Wensum Park, the place her clothes and belongings, together with her spectacles, jewelry and cell phone, had been discovered final Friday night.
Previously, the newest CCTV picture launched by the police, described because the final view of the mother-of-three on December 8, confirmed her strolling up St Augustine’s Street, which leads onto Aylsham Road, after which onto Drayton Road to succeed in Wensum Park at 4.01pm.
But the brand new video obtained by MailOnline exhibits that a short while later she made an sudden diversion off St Augustine’s Street for some purpose, passing alongside a brief pedestrianised stretch into Bakers Road, after being caught by a digicam on the nook.
In the video, timed at 4:03pm, which solely exhibits her from the again in her olive coat with the belt hanging free, she seems to be strolling purposely.
As she walks to the furthest restrict of the digicam’s vary, she seems to cease for a couple of seconds, simply because the timer ticks over to 4:04pm.
The supply of the CCTV, the proprietor of a enterprise on the street, confirmed to MailOnline that Mrs Lord didn’t return the identical manner.
Mrs Lord’s daughter, clothes model proprietor Charlotte Lord, shared an replace from Norfolk Police after specialist divers made the tragic discover within the River Wensum in Wensum Park, Norfolk on Friday.
After she shared the devastating information that the physique of a girl had been found, buddies had been fast to supply their assist, with one writing: ‘I’m so sorry to learn this Charlotte. Have been pondering of you and your loved ones continuous the previous couple of days.’
A second mentioned: ‘No phrases. Just so sorry and sending a lot like to you and your loved ones.’
A childhood buddy added: ‘So sorry to listen to this Charlotte. We all have actually fond reminiscences of spending time with your loved ones rising up. Thinking of you all.’
It got here as buddies of Mrs Lord’s husband Clive instructed the Times he has been left ‘completely misplaced’ by the invention.
‘He does not perceive in any respect what’s occurred’, they added.
And Julie Muddel, who’s married to Mrs Lord’s first husband, Paul, mentioned: ‘My stepson instructed me Gaynor was the most effective she had been for a very long time. She beloved her job, she completely beloved it. She was making new buddies, and he or she was the happiest she’d been for a very long time.’
Local MP Clive Lewis additionally commented on the invention, saying: ‘This is terrible information whether or not it is Gaynor they’ve discovered or not. Someone has misplaced their life and their family members can be in items. My coronary heart goes out to them, and I want them consolation and energy.’
Confirming the invention on Friday, a Norfolk Police spokesperson mentioned: ‘Specialist divers from Lincolnshire Police’s underwater search staff discovered the physique of a girl within the River Wensum this morning following a number of days of detailed and methodical searches.
Police search groups on the River Wensum in Wensum Park, Norwich, on Friday
Gaynor Lord was final seen on December 8 as she left work early from Norwich metropolis centre
‘Formal identification is but to happen however Gaynor’s household had been instantly knowledgeable of developments and proceed to be supported by specifically skilled officers.’
A autopsy is because of be carried out, however police say at this stage they don’t have any proof of any third-party involvement and don’t imagine Mrs Lord met anybody previous to getting into the park.
Chief Superintendent Dave Buckley mentioned that Mrs Lord’s case stays a lacking individual’s inquiry and they don’t imagine she met anybody on the best way to Wensum Park, the place her belongings had been discovered precisely every week in the past.
He mentioned: ‘While we set up the girl’s id, our ideas stay with Gaynor’s household at this troublesome and distressing time. We have specialist household liaison officers supporting and preserving them up to date with our work.
‘We stay open minded to the circumstances surrounding Gaynor’s disappearance and can proceed to pursue traces of enquiry to grasp why she went lacking. I’m eager to say this stays a lacking individual investigation.
‘We’ve been in a position to hint Gaynor’s actions via CCTV within the metropolis and at this stage, we’re glad there isn’t any proof that Gaynor met anyone on the best way to the park.
Police autos seen on the financial institution of the River Wensum in Norwich on Friday
This timeline exhibits what we all know to date about how Gaynor Lord’s disappearance unfolded
Police divers yesterday discovered a physique within the river, marking the situation with an orange buoy earlier than retrieving it from the water
‘While this isn’t the result we wished for, our search has at all times predominantly targeted on the river and the park.
‘A autopsy examination can be carried out to ascertain the reason for dying, nonetheless I’d reiterate that at this stage there isn’t any proof of third-party involvement. Nothing in our enquiries to date has modified this place.’
He additionally instructed reporters: ‘We stay open-minded to the circumstances of Gaynor’s disappearance, and we’ll proceed to pursue all traces of inquiry to establish why she went lacking. I’m eager to say this stays a lacking individual inquiry at this stage.
‘I’m additionally glad in the mean time, primarily based on the proof that we have now, that Gaynor didn’t meet anybody on the best way to the park, and we now have a greater understanding of her actions via the town centre.’
The officer added: ‘I’d reiterate at this stage that there isn’t any proof of third get together involvement. Nothing in our inquiries have modified this place.’
Specialist police divers had been seen looking out 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.
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 in a position to set up her way of thinking when she went lacking with ‘any diploma of confidence’.
It got here after Mrs Gaynor’s buddy Julie Butcher shared her ‘remorse’ after being pressured to hold up on the mother-of-three on the day she went lacking in an effort to reply a piece name.
She promised to cellphone her again, however when she did 5 minutes later, there was no reply.
Ms Butcher instructed 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 might need came upon the explanation why she was calling me.
‘I simply want I’d have saved her on the cellphone and never taken that cellphone name since you by no means know, she might need mentioned one thing.’
Speaking concerning the final time she noticed Mrs Lord, she mentioned: ‘She was joyful on Tuesday and we had a couple of gins together with her and the final time I noticed her she gave me a hug.’
She mentioned she was ‘upbeat’ and speaking about Christmas simply days earlier than she disappeared.
Wensum Park at present stays closed to the general public.