Distraught partner of missing Nicola Bulley 'is frustrated with police over their
stalling investigation and has been rebuffed by senior officers' - as force only
now tries to find anglers fishing on the River Wyre when she vanished 2½
weeks ago

• Paul Ansell has urged police to widen their search for his parnter Nicola Bulley
• Fishermen claim police only contacted them this week about anglers on the river
• It raises more questions over whether steps were missed in the vital first days

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Yes Police
have Failed

Glove Found in a field

So not in the river

Dear me if this is true, the keystone cops are in the house, that poor family dealing with such incompetence....

i'm telling you, the police were involved in her abduction and they are trying to cover it up. Everything they have done so far has hampered the investigation, it's disgusting

f me the whole investigation is keystone kops

Lancashire :Missing dogwalker's phone found on bench by river , Nicola Bulley, 45
 

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I understand the glove was found 7 miles away, the media are reporting it as if it were found by the bench and PC Plod have been stepping on it for two weeks

About time I hope the journos question about the fitbit if it is not mentioned

Yes the Press must Push the Police
on so much.

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Peter Lawson Assist Police Chief

12:20PM
Witness who found dog's harness phoned vet for help
Smith describes how, at around 09:33 GMT, a local dogwalker found Willow off her lead and Bulley's mobile phone on a bench nearby.

12:20PM
Fisherman who 'covered his face' has not come forward
A fisherman who was reportedly seen covering his face is also being traced, Detective Superintendent Smith added.

12:18PM
Police 'inundated' with false information and theories but continuing to investigate "red van"
Detective Superintendent Smith said they were continuing to track down a red van seen in the area but said she did not believe it was suspicious.

12:16PM
Derelict house has been searched three times and Nicola is not in there
Detective Superintendent Smith addressed a number of "myths" circulating online and said a derelict house opposite the site of her disappearance had been searched multiple times.

12:15PM
Investigation looking into Nicola's social media profile in coming days
Police warned public not to contact them if they saw Ms Bulley was 'online' as it would just be officers investigating her accounts.

12:12PM
'Exhaustive amount of work done' with Nicola's phone
Detective Superintendent Smith said officers had been examining Ms Bulley's phone in depth ever since it was recovered.

12:10PM
'River path has always been focus of search of routes leading away from site of disappearance'
Detective Superintendent Smith said that if Nicola had left and turned right off the path when she left she did not make it to a pub around 50 yards away.

12:06PM
Horses, dogs and helicopters involved in search
HM Coastguard, Police Marine Units, Police Dogs, West Cumbria Search and Rescue and volunteers from Specialist Search Dogs were involved in the search.

Fire and Rescue dogs and Firefighters were on the ground assisting the search efforts, as well as 24 Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue volunteers.

The National Police Air Service helicopter was deployed to search the area.

12:04PM
'Really normal for dog not to have harness on'
Detective Superintendent Smith said it was not unusual for Bulley's dog, Willow, to have its harness off while in the field.

12:03PM
Call made before disappearance was 'normal'
Detective Superintendent Rebecca Smith said the teams call Nicola was on before she disappeared was a routine one and she "did not need to have her microphone or camera on"

12:00PM
Disappearance of Nicola was graded as 'high risk' immediately, officer in charge claims
Detective Superintendent Rebecca Smith says disappearance of Nicola was graded as "high risk" immediately after police were called at 11am.

You form a number of hypothesis - those included the one she could have gone into river, that there was third party involvement and that she left area voluntarily.

Said it was her "main working hypothesis" that Nicola went into the River Wyre and it remains her belief.

She said there was not a single piece of information to suggest third party involvement.

so could have still been thumped on head, carried on the shoulder up river path into a van and drove off all that bit is cctv black-out

How can exhaustive and in depth work have already been done on her phone, but her social media is yet to be examined? Surely there's only so much you can investigate on a phone without looking at social media?

Curiouser and curiouser.

i thought the lead detective had a bit of an attitude problem. That doesn't mean they haven't done a good job, but she isn't ideal for a public facing role

She was dripping with indignation that anyone would dare question her work

The police officer in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of Nicola
Bulley has revealed she was a "high risk" and had "specific vulnerabilities".




Detective Superintendent Smith refused to give more details of the mother-of-
two's "individual vulnerabilities".


"But those vulnerabilities based our decision-making in terms of grading Nicola
as high risk and have continued to form part of my investigation throughout."

DT


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I wonder what that's about. High risk? of what?

Dont tell me she is pregnant or something.

that could be it

What would that make her "high risk" of though? disappearing?

They spent the whole presser berating the gen public for being armchair detectives and for speculating and then say that!

i mean what do they think is going to happen now?

Very True LT.

Pregnant at 45 is already high risk. Never mind if you have gone missing.

it could be anything really. Maybe she was vulnerable to walking off without a trace

She had personal vulnerabilities according to the boyfriend that’s why she was considered high risk.

What about the Fitbit?

there was no fitbit data as it handn't connected to her phone for for days before she disappeared

OK

Ah OK

That's not really an answer, is it. Like, was she neurodivergent in some way? Trauma?

Hmmm.

I maintain my crackpot theory that she did a runner, and that's not exactly dissuasive ...

That is a crackpot theory, i've never thought that right from when she disappeared, someones abducted her.

:joker:

From the beginning I've thought she left via the river, on her new lover's boat. She left things as they were (the harness, the phone) so people would look at them instead of more relevant stuff.

She wore that huge coat to hide her different clothes.

Lancashire :Missing dogwalker's phone found on bench by river , Nicola Bulley, 45
 

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Regular boating river it is. Do you remember seeing a car on the road?

A dinghy could do it.

Lancashire :Missing dogwalker's phone found on bench by river , Nicola Bulley, 45
 

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