New footage of missing mother-of-three Gaynor Lord, who was last seen on Friday, has been released.
The 55-year-old disappeared after leaving work in Norwich city centre – and police said they do not know why, describing her actions as “out of character”.
The new clip shows Mrs Lord walking up St Augustines Street at 4.01pm. It was the last time she was captured on CCTV, police said.
She is seen wearing glasses and a long coat as she walks along the road – which is busy with passing traffic.
The street is close to Wensum Park, where Mrs Lord was last seen by a passer-by, and where some of her possessions, including her mobile phone and glasses, were later found.
Other CCTV footage released earlier in the week shows her leaving her job at Jarrolds department store at 2.45pm – an hour and 15 minutes earlier than scheduled – and walking towards the city’s cathedral.
Mrs Lord was later seen leaving the cathedral’s grounds just after 3.20pm, before making her way through the city centre to St Augustines Street.
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Police were alerted that Mrs Lord, who is married, had gone missing on Friday after her possessions were found in Wensum Park just after 8pm. Her ID was also found in her handbag at the scene.
The white shirt and yellow tank top she was wearing, along with two rings, a mobile phone and glasses, were also found scattered nearby.
Her olive-coloured coat was discovered in the River Wensum, which runs alongside the park.
An eyewitness has told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that she saw Mrs Lord “sort of performing a yoga pose” in the park and that something “seemed a bit off” because it was “starting to get dark”.
Officers believe she entered the water and specialist underwater teams are involved in the search.
In a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Chief Superintendent Dave Buckley said officers had not been able to establish her state of mind on the day she went missing.
“There’s nothing we’ve been able to establish that really gives us a clear position on her state of mind that I would feel any degree of confidence of saying what we think it is at the moment,” he said.
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Ch Supt Buckley said officers were speaking to the mother-of-three’s friends and family and “anybody who can help us that we know she’s had contact with.”
He added: “We have got hold of her mobile device, we will work our way through that systematically… and see if we can find out more accurately why we’ve ended up where we have.
“It would be really premature I think if I offered too much suggestion as to what I think has happened.”
However, the senior officer said detectives did have an idea why Mrs Lord left work early, but did not provide any details.
He told reporters: “We’ve got some indications as to why she behaved the way in which she did but what we’re doing is we’re just working backwards now to actually truly understand what may have taken place.
“We’re just cautious of everything we know at the moment”.
Police keen to hear from anyone who saw Mrs Lord between 2.50pm and 3.23pm – because it was “not clear where she goes inside the cathedral grounds during this time”.
He also confirmed that his officers were in direct contact with Lancashire Police – who led the search for Nicola Bulley at the start of the year.
“In terms of Lancashire, we’ve reached out to them and to investigators that worked on that case.”
In further cross-service collaboration, he said a specialist team from Lincolnshire was also assisting in the search.
No marks were found on the grass by the river to indicate that someone had gone in the water, police confirmed.
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