New footage of lacking mother-of-three Gaynor Lord’s final identified moments has been revealed this morning as her distraught daughter took to social media to verify the tragic information {that a} lady’s physique had been discovered.
Until now, it was understood that Mrs Lord, 55, headed instantly 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 latest 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 digital camera on the nook.
It comes as her 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.
Clothing model proprietor Charlotte Lord shared the tragic replace with pals on Friday
The mother-of-three (pictured) walked out of her office over an hour earlier than her shift was because of finish and hurried by the streets of Norwich
In the video, timed at 4:03pm, which solely exhibits her from the again in her olive coat with the belt hanging unfastened, she seems to be strolling purposely.
As she walks to the furthest restrict of the digital camera’s vary, she seems to cease for just a few 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 means.
After her daughter shared the devastating information that the physique of a girl had been found, pals had been fast to supply their help, with one writing: ‘I’m so sorry to learn this Charlotte. Have been considering of you and your loved ones continuous the previous couple of days.’
A second stated: ‘No phrases. Just so sorry and sending a lot like to you and your loved ones.’
A childhood pal 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 pals of Mrs Lord’s husband Clive instructed the Times he has been left ‘completely misplaced’ by the invention.
‘He would not perceive in any respect what’s occurred’, they added.
And Julie Muddel, who’s married to Mrs Lord’s first husband, Paul, stated: ‘My stepson instructed me Gaynor was one of the best she had been for a very long time. She liked her job, she completely liked it. She was making new pals, 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 shall be in items. My coronary heart goes out to them, and I want them consolation and power.’
Confirming the information, a Norfolk Police spokesperson stated: ‘Specialist divers from Lincolnshire Police’s underwater search workforce discovered the physique of a girl within the River Wensum this morning following a number of days of detailed and methodical searches.
‘Formal identification is but to happen however Gaynor’s household had been instantly knowledgeable of developments and proceed to be supported by specifically educated 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 coming into the park.
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
Chief Superintendent Dave Buckley stated 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 stated: ‘While we set up the lady’s id, our ideas stay with Gaynor’s household at this tough 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 capable of hint Gaynor’s actions by CCTV within the metropolis and at this stage, we’re happy there isn’t a proof that Gaynor met anyone on the best way to the park.
‘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 shall be carried out to ascertain the reason for loss of life, nevertheless I’d reiterate that at this stage there isn’t a proof of third-party involvement. Nothing in our enquiries to this point has modified this place.’
Police automobiles seen on the financial institution of the River Wensum in Norwich on Friday
This timeline exhibits what we all know to this point 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
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 determine why she went lacking. I’m eager to say this stays a lacking individual inquiry at this stage.
‘I’m additionally happy in the meanwhile, primarily based on the proof that we now have, that Gaynor didn’t meet anybody on the best way to the park, and we now have a greater understanding of her actions by town centre.’
The officer added: ‘I’d reiterate at this stage that there isn’t a proof of third occasion involvement. Nothing in our inquiries have modified this place.’
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.
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’.
It got here after Mrs Gaynor’s pal Julie Butcher shared her ‘remorse’ after being pressured to hold up on the mother-of-three on the day she went lacking so as 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 may need discovered the rationale why she was calling me.
‘I simply want I’d have stored her on the cellphone and never taken that cellphone 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 pleased on Tuesday and we had just a few gins together 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.
Wensum Park at present stays closed to the general public.