Police are searching a river in Norwich for missing mother Gaynor Lord, a week after she disappeared.

Ms Lord has not been seen since last Friday, with police believing she entered the water at the River Wensum after her clothes and personal belongings were found nearby, with her coat seen on the water.

The 55-year-old disappeared after leaving work early in Norwich city centre – with police describing her actions as “out of character”.

In a news conference at the scene on Thursday, Chief Superintendent Dave Buckley said officers had not been able to establish her state of mind on the day she went missing.

He said that “everything we know is pointing to a high probability that Gaynor went into the water”, but added: “Nobody’s seen her go into the river.”

A friend of Ms Lord told Sky News she missed a phone call from her just minutes before he last sighting on CCTV.

Two calls to Julie Butcher were timed at around 2.37pm – a few minutes before she left work early – and then again at 4.15pm 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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