bring you up to date with some breaking news from here in the uk. an inquest into the death of a woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search back injanuary and generated huge interest up and down the country and around the world has just delivered a verdict. i am talking about nicola bullen. her death has been recorded as accidental. this has come to us from the senior coronerfor accidental. this has come to us from the senior coroner for lancashire. backin the senior coroner for lancashire. back injanuary she disappeared and was out walking her dog. she had just finished a work conference call. you can see pictures from the search along the river and a statement from the police force who classified her as a high risk person and what happened then was widespread speculation. all of the
from her partner during the inquest that she had been looking forward to the future before her disappearance. paul ansell said they had been concerns about her drinking but she was back to herself by january. let s talk to danny savage who is there for us. take us through what you heard in court. in there for us. take us through what you heard in court. there for us. take us through what you heard in court. in the last hour we ve basically you heard in court. in the last hour we ve basically had you heard in court. in the last hour we ve basically had the you heard in court. in the last hourj we ve basically had the conclusions of what the coroner said after listening to all the evidence. yesterday we had evidence from expert witnesses looking at the death of nicola bullying and we heard from families and relatives as well. earliertoday heard from families and relatives as well. earlier today we had from her partner talking about everything seeming normal and that is the picture
over christmas but she had come off her head charity therapy and was drinking too much but in the weeks leading up to her disappearance she had started taking her medication again and had stopped drinking and there was absolutely no indication that she was planning to take her own life and that was the clear message that came from her family today. the coroner summing up this afternoon and giving his conclusions, did consider suicide as a possible conclusion but he said there was the absence of the evidence of nicola wanting to take her own life. she left her dog, she would never have done that are carried out such an act in such a public place. it was left with him to draw the conclusion of accidental death. that was on 9:22am when
media right across the country, there was a lot of speculation about her whereabouts and a huge amount of concern. her body was spotted by dog walkers a few miles down the river several weeks later. so just to confirm what we have just heard from the coroner, that there was no indication of any desire she had to take your own life, she fell into the river and died almost immediately. the coroner noted the improved health and well being of nicola, the fact she was making plans and there was normal behaviour that was being exhibited as well. he also said it would be unusual for her to consider suicide and risk losing her dog. so there was no natural disease caused the death and the conclusion is that she died in accidental death. the inquest into
her death opened yesterday and the coroner offered his condolences yesterday to the family. just to remind you what the outcome of the inquest and the aims of the inquest work was to determine who has died, where they ve died, when and how and by what means. the coroner also saying the inquest was to stop the speculation that we have seen but would not be able to explore all of the possibilities. so it was an intense couple of days in the coroner court where 14 witnesses were called including experts in drowning, nine members of the public were present and also members of nicola s family as well. and huge amount of journalists at nicola s family as well. and huge amount ofjournalists at the coroner court as well. a huge amount of interest in this story. we did hear