Mother of murdered university student who vanished in 2019 sends moving message to Nicola Bulley's partner

The mum of Libby Squire who was found murdered after she went missing in 2019 has sent a moving message to the partner of Nicola Bulley.

Missing Nicola disappeared while walking her dog in St Michael’s on Wyre on January 27.

Lisa Squire, the mother of 21-year-old Libby who vanished in Hull, has issued a message to Paul Ansell urging him to never give up the search for his partner.

“Please don't give up hope. Put one foot in front of the other and hope for that positive outcome,” she said.

Libby Squire vanished in 2019 before her body was found seven weeks later
Humberside Police

She told The Sun: "It’s the not knowing that's so difficult."

The body of Libby Squire was found seven weeks after she went missing in the Humber Estuary.

As the search enters its third week, private diver Peter Faulding who assisted police in the hunt to scour the River Wyre is urging people further afield to keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary.

“People in the wider vicinity for several miles around St Michael's should be looking for any suspicious activity,” he told The Times.

Faulding spent three days searching for evidence of Nicola but says he is “confident” that the 45-year-old is not in the water.

Police believe she may have fallen into the River and was swept out to the Irish Sea but are “open” to other possibilities.

Forensic search specialist Faulding has suggested it is time to “consider all options” as he vows to look at “possible deposition sites”.

The case of the missing mum-of two has brought back painful memories for grieving Lisa Squire.

An ongoing search for missing mum Nicola Bulley continues
Danny Lawson

Polish butcher Pawel Relowicz dumped Libby Squire’s body in the River Hull after raping her on a playing field during the early hours of February 1, 2019.

He was jailed for a minimum of 27 years at Sheffield Crown Court.

Libby, who was a philosophy student at Hull University, had been out with friends before she caught a taxi home - but the 21-year-old didn’t go inside.

Drunk and in party clothes she wandered in the wrong direction and lay down in snow.

CCTV footage showed Libby being assisted into a silver Vauxhall Astra which belonged to Relowicz, who lived half a mile from her house.