Wife of missing bushcraft expert addresses Nicola Bulley's family

‘My husband went out for a walk like Nicola Bulley almost a year ago and never came back – I believe he is still alive. People don’t just vanish’

• Finn Creaney, from near Tain in Scottish Highlands, not seen since March 25
• READ MORE: Diving expert maintains Nicola Bulley did not fall into River Wyre 

The wife of a bushcraft expert who disappeared on a walk like Nicola Bulley believes she will still find him because ‘people don’t just vanish off the face of the earth’. 

Finn Creaney, a father of one from near Tain in the Scottish Highlands, has not been seen since Friday, March 25 when a family member dropped him off at a caravan park at the start of a solo hike. 

His wife, Lucy, compared the case to that of missing mother-of-two Mrs Bulley, who has still not been found nearly two weeks after she was last seen walking her dog by the River Wyre in Lancashire. 

‘March 25th marks the first anniversary of my husband Finn Creaney’s disappearance, and I have every faith we will bring him home,’ she told the Telegraph. 

‘But as the family of missing mother Nicola Bulley will know, the uncertainty is torture, it is pain. You don’t know how it will end, but you have to believe you will find the person you’ve lost. People don’t just vanish off the face of the earth.’

Finn Creaney, a father of one from near Tain in the Scottish Highlands, has not been seen since Friday, March 25 when a family member dropped him off at a caravan park at the start of a solo hike. He’s seen with his wife, Lucy, and their five-year-old daughter 

Mrs Creaney revealed the devastating impact of her husband’s disappearance on their five-year-old daughter, saying that when she cries she tells the youngster: ‘Daddy has gone on one of his adventures. 

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‘I don’t know what’s happened, but I’m doing everything I can to get the answers. I love you, I love Daddy and I miss him.’  

Finn Creaney – who ran a bushcraft and outdoor survival school – set out for a hike at Loch Naver in Sutherland on Friday, March 25. He had planned to walk around the loch before heading south to Golspie. 

After driving to Golspie Beach car park and leaving his car, a family member dropped him off at a caravan park on the B873 road at 2.15pm. 

This was his final confirmed sighting, with his phone cutting off at 1.47pm in the village of Lairg after either being switched off, broken or running out of battery. 

The last time she heard from him was in a voicemail he left at 12.52pm in which he said ‘I love you lots and I’m really proud of you’. 

At the time she was about to start her own floristry business. 

Mr Creaney had promised to be home by midday on Sunday, so when he had still not appeared by Monday his wife reported him as missing to the police. 

Mr Creaney – who ran a bushcraft and outdoor survival school – set out for a hike at Loch Naver in Sutherland on Friday, March 25

Extensive searches were carried out by police, mountain rescue and coastguard teams in the following weeks, but he was never found. 

Mrs Creaney said she sends a message to her husband every day in the hope he might see it.    

‘I believe Finn is still alive, because there’s nothing to suggest he is not, especially as so much of the ground has been covered by search and rescue, friends, family, police divers and numerous others who have helped with the search, on foot, by air and in water,’ she said.  

Mrs Creaney is insistent her husband had no reason to disappear of his own volition, describing him as a ‘lovely, happy, giving soul’ whose bushcraft business was ‘starting to take off’. 

‘We have been together for nine years, got married in 2021, and were very much looking forward to a bright future together. A mental health crisis this was not. Anyone who suggests that, doesn’t know Finn like I do,’ she wrote. 

Addressing Mrs Bulley’s family, she told them to ‘keep the faith’, adding that she would ‘never give up hope’ about being reunited with her husband one day.         

Mrs Creaney is insistent her husband had no reason to disappear of his own volition, describing him as a ‘lovely, happy, giving soul’

Mrs Creaney and her relatives are continuing their search, and have set up a Facebook page to raise awareness of his case. 

In a post today, the family wrote: ‘We want to be reunited with Finn as soon as possible!! 

‘It’s been 10 months since Finn was last seen and there is still NO TRACE! People DON’T Just disappear.

‘Finn was of sound mind and the happiest he’s been when last seen so this disappearance is unexplainable and we want answers‼️‼️’   

Mr Creaney’s father, Michael, appealed for help finding his son late last year. 

‘I wanted everyone to know we’re still positive, we are still moving forward,’ he wrote. 

Mr Creaney is described as 5ft 11in tall, of slim build, with light complexion and freckles on his arms and nose. 

He has long brown hair down to his lower back and a full brown beard which is short in length. 

When he was last seen he was wearing a long brown leather jacket and brown hiking books and carrying a green Berghaus rucksack. 

The search for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley continues today, with a diving expert called in by her family calling the case a ‘complete mystery’.  

Peter Faulding met her partner Paul Ansell yesterday and told him she had still not been found.

The mortgage adviser, 45, vanished on January 27 after dropping her two daughters – aged six and nine – at school, then taking her springer spaniel Willow for a walk along the river.

Ms Bulley’s phone was left on the bench near the river, still connected to a work call, with the dog lead and harness found close by.

Members of the Assynt Mountain Rescue Team during the search for Mr Creaney 

Mr Faulding and his team, from rescue operation Specialist Group International, have been searching the area around the bench, the ‘entry point’ where it is believed by police Ms Bulley fell into the water.

But he said their three-day involvement ended yesterday after a ‘thorough and extensive search of the areas we were tasked with by Lancashire Police’ found ‘no sign of Nicola’.

On what he thinks happened to her, he said: ‘It’s a total mystery for me, I really don’t know. In all the searches I’ve done, this is one which will stick with me.

‘Normally we get tasked with, you know, searching for a knife or a body and there’s been a witness to a drowning or we’ve got really good intelligence.

‘The sort of information we’ve got here is a mobile phone on a bench but we don’t know anything else.

‘I’m glad really that we haven’t found Nicola because I didn’t want to recover another dead body.

‘It just opens it up, is she alive, is she dead? Did she go in the river or didn’t she? And I can’t say one way or another. I’m baffled by it and I think most people are.’ 

• Anyone who may have seen Finn Creaney or has any information which could assist should call 101, quoting reference 0912 of 28 March. 

Nicola Bulley (pictured with her partner Paul) vanished while walking her dog Willow along the River Wyre in Lancashire on January 27

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