Watch: Police share last sighting of Gaynor Lord on CCTV
Police searching for Gaynor Lord say they have been unable to establish her state of mind at the time she went missing with “any degree of confidence”.
Yesterday, police released new footage of what they say is the last sighting of her on CCTV before she disappeared.
The 34-second clip shows the 55-year-old, wearing glasses and a long coat, walking along St Augustines Street in Norwich, which is busy with passing traffic, at 4.01pm on Friday, 8 December.
A friend has also described Lord as “upbeat and happy” and talking about Christmas just days before she disappeared.
Julie Butcher said Lord seemed “fine” when they last met on Tuesday last week. She also revealed that she had a brief phonecall with Lord at 2.15pm on the day she went missing and a “pocket call” at 4.15pm later that day – 15 minutes after Lord was last seen on CCTV.
Lord disappeared after leaving work early from Norwich city centre at 2.45pm. Her belongings were reportedly found in Wensum Park – around 1.5 miles away from her workplace at Jarrold department store – at around 8pm.
Police are keeping an open mind about what happened but have said “everything we know is pointing to a high probability that Gaynor went into the nearby River Wessum.
Specialist divers are working in an “extraordinarily challenging environment” and it is expected to take “a couple of days” or longer to complete the search of area where Lord is thought to have entered the water.
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