Mother Gaynor Lord ‘told a friend about disappearing like Nicola Bulley’ before she was found drowned in a river, inquest hears [Video]

Mother Gaynor Lord told a friend she wanted to ‘be like Nicola Bulley’ shortly before she was found dead in a river, an inquest has been told.

Ms Lord, 55, was seen running through Norwich city centre in December last year before she was reported missing – after failing to return home from work.

Her body was pulled from the River Wensum by police divers a week later. The inquest into her death, which opened in April, gave the cause of death as ‘immersion and drowning’.

The inquest, which re-opened today, heard Ms Lord had been on a course of hormone replacement therapy for the menopause and medication for epilepsy at the time of her death. She had previously suffered psychotic episodes.

A friend had been told by Ms Lord that she wanted to be ‘like Nicola’ – a reference to Nicola Bulley, 45, who disappeared whilst walking her dog last …