POLICE say they have “indications as to why” Gaynor Lord “behaved the way in which she did”.
However they say there is nothing to suggest she suffered with mental health issues – but that they are treating her as “vulnerable”.
And officers have gained access to her mobile phone and are tonight searching it for clues.
They also do not believe Gaynor had met anyone at Norwich Cathedral, and they do not know if she is religious.
Chief Superintendent Dave Buckley said: “There is nothing to suggest from that period of time that she’s in the cathedral, that she’s had any contact with a third person.”
He continued: “Anybody who’s missing in these circumstances is vulnerable.
“In this particular case, we’ve got a lady whose disappearance is out of character, it’s now been quite a considerable amount of time since she was seen alive. That makes her vulnerable.”
Asked if there was anything happening in her personal life which would explain her going missing, Ch Supt Buckley said: “Not at the moment, no.”
He added: “There’s nothing that 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 in saying what we think it is at the moment.
“I think we continue to talk to friends, family, anybody who can help us that we know she’s had contact with.”
He said Gaynor, as far as he knows, has not gone missing before.
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“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.
“I think, just cautious of everything we know at the moment because clearly we’ve ended up in the situation that we have, which is not usual, is it.
“I don’t think any of the conversations that we’ve had are completely informing us to why her state of mind has ended up to being what it was.”
The force has around 60 cops working on the case and has received 30 reports from members of the public.
