Mysterious Disappearance In Lancashire

Can she play in attack? She seems to have a lot of the necessary qualities.

 

To be fair to Mrs Then, her judgement is sound compared to Isaac Success’ after a Baileys session

 

A statement from the family suggests the police’s hand was forced somewhat on the release of the private information:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64665835

Unfortunately another set of rent-a-quotes are off and motoring on this subject now too.

 

Seems a bit of a tricky situation, putting the police and their actions to one side, it’s on the face if it very strange the family and friends went down the route of suggesting she just disappeared, or hinting that she was maybe even abducted. They obviously know her issues so you’d think leading more with the truth would be more helpful to all. The husband must know suicide was a possibility, but to outright ignore that as an option seems odd, especially with all the odd balls it attracted.

But then none of us know how we’d react in that situation, and I guess it’s understandable they may have wanted to have kept stuff like that about her a secret.

 

Like every poster on this forum, they're just sh1t-scared of getting on the wrong side of you

 

Also her partner didn't appear to have to told Faulding this, even though he was hired by the family.

 

I don’t know, to go to the effort of hiring Faulding and to publicly disagree with the police theory that she was in the river: it’s a pretty serious state of denial.

 

Sadly it appears they’ve found her body:

 

Extraordinary that it took this long, though.

 

Sad development but entirely expected.

Wonder what the whackos will latch on to now? I suppose the funeral will be the last hurrah, so they still have that to look forward to at least.

 

So the loudmouth forensic scientist who said it was impossible not to have found her, therefore she wasn't in the river has been proved professionally incompetent?

 

Unless she’s only recently been placed in the water

 

It may just be she went in the river after they looked? It’s all very odd and terribly sad. Her poor husband and children

 

It is very sad and thanks to the British public a nightmare heaped upon a nightmare.

 

Now the quacks think she must have been put downstream days after.

 

Sadly, not a surprise at all.

These idiots spin their own narrative that ignores any facts. They seem desperate to feel like they are special and know something that the majority don't.

Same as the covid conspiracy morons, Sandy Hook etc etc.

Most seem to be social outcasts who want to feel important and part of a little club, no matter how ridiculous and ignore the impact of those actually involved.

 

Frankly, you don’t have to be that much of a conspiracy theorist to be puzzled as to why it took almost a month to find a body which was just a mile away from where she disappeared.

This is the Home Editor on the BBC website:

“The fact that the body - yet to be formally identified as Nicola Bulley - was found less than a mile from where she disappeared raises a lot of questions. Specifically, why did it take three weeks?

People will now be wondering whether the search was handled properly, which comes on top of a huge focus on the way Lancashire Police have conducted this investigation.

Since Ms Bulley went missing, police have said she was in the river. They seemed very confident of that from the start, despite some of the family's concerns about their conviction.

How is it then, after all those extensive searches and police saying that was where she was, her body was potentially so close? It is worth remembering that this river is not enormous - it is a small stream in parts.”

 

There was a fella in Leighton Buzzard a few years ago who disappeared after a night out. The theory was he took a shortcut which took him near the river on his way home and he fell in. The layman like me would then think to comb the river for a few miles in each direction - but some laymen are arrogant enough to believe they are actually much more than that and know better than the experts. I can't remember the exact timeline but his body appeared a matter of weeks later in Linslade, about a mile away from where they suspected he went in. Very sad but it was just accepted that the search teams will be doing their best and will know far more about how these things play out than anyone else.

This whole episode with the lady in Lancashire has shown the press, the police and the public in their worst possible light.

 

Yes. And I suppose this one would have played out like that if it hadn’t been for the media involvement from the start.

 

Wasn’t the SGI chap adamant she wasn’t in the River though?

But then didn’t he say he wasn’t told of her vulnerabilities by the family/husband, so if he was it would’ve affected his search parameters?

All very odd either way.

 

I remember this, he was the bloke who worked at Morrisons. I saw him the night before he went missing, absolutely hammered in the pub. Took weeks for his body to be found in what is also not much of a river.

Of course, the papers had no interest in this and he wasn't subject to idiot theories because he was a trolley collector with learning difficulties: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-26288142

 

Curiosity or even questions are fine. It's the people who when faced with things they can't explain jump immediately to the most extreme possibilities that are a growing menace.

I don't know how much of a factor it is when it comes to searching in this case but it very much looks from the photos like this body was quite deep in the vegetation at the side of the river. For all we know it was there the whole time, partially submerged, dark clothing in dark water obscuring it until the tide or the wind or whatever moved it sufficiently that the blonde hair the witness describes was suddenly visible on or above the surface.

I do feel a bit like this is another of those situations where the police could do more if they were given more, but when push comes to shove with finite resources do the general public really want them spent on fancy sonar instruments, boats and training hundreds of police divers to conduct no more than a handful of searches nationwide a year? Designing policing based populist causes is half the reason it's as stuffed as it is currently in my view. Too reactionary and, in some ways, too many 'lessons learned'.

 

I don’t think the circumstances of that man are quite the same, there is much less to suggest he went in the river (or if he did at all) and if he did whereabouts. Plus it sounds like it was days before they realised he was missing, so would’ve taken a while to work out he could even be in the river and that would’ve been just one of many possibilities.

It’s unsurprising it took that long considering all they had was, he left a friends house and then didn’t turn up for work in the New Year.

Everything pointed to Nicola Bulley going in the river within hours if it happening.

It seems similar because retrospectively we know what happened to both. But they appear very different circumstances.

 

If she'd looked like Waynetta Slob and come from a council estate in Burnley they wouldn't have been remotely interested, regardless of circumstances.

 

Let’s not forget the Husband appeared on prime time TV with Dan Walker. A certain amount of the media interest has nothing to do with her class or appearance.

 

Did he? Had no idea about this.

 

Yep, a 75 minute special on a Friday evening on C5:

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/dan-walker-issues-update-nicola-26220834.amp

During which the Husband said he didn’t think she’d gone in the river.

 

Oh right, I thought you meant he worked in the media.

 

Oh haha, sorry no. Just the fact he has courted the media and planted the suggestion she wasn’t in the river, so the coverage and actions of the media, plus all the cranks attracted to the case are in part down to his actions.

 

Weren't they saying the river is quite tidal and the body could have been submerged and moving up and down the river with the tides ?