‘Finn Creaney went out for a walk like Nicola Bulley almost a year ago and never came back – Wife of missing bushcraft expert says
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.’
‘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.