A friend of missing mother Gaynor Lord says she received a missed call from her more than an hour after she was last sighted in CCTV footage.
Julie Butcher told Sky News she received two phone calls from the 55-year-old on the day she went missing in Norfolk.
The calls were timed at around 2.37pm – a few minutes before she left work early – and then again at 5.15pm on Friday 8 December, after the last CCTV sighting of her.
“I answered the call and said ‘who is it?’ and she said ‘it’s Gaynor’,” Ms Butcher said of the first call.
“Then my phone rang and it was one of my clients, so I said to Gaynor can I call you back and she said ‘yes’.
“I rang her back and then she didn’t answer, so I called her again and left a message, and then I messaged her on WhatsApp.”
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Ms Butcher described the second call from Ms Lord as a “pocket call”.
“It sounded like she was walking along,” she said.
This call came more than an hour after she was last sighted on CCTV – at 4.01pm on Norwich’s St Augustines Street – which police confirmed when they released new footage today.
Ms Butcher said that was the last she had heard from her friend until the police called on Saturday to say Mrs Lord was missing.
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