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MyOldCaravan · 2023-01-30T21:12:33+00:00

BBC News - Nicola Bulley: Partner describes perpetual hell over missing mum [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-64450243]] Just been reading about this. How awful for her partner and children. Really hope she is found soon

Peverellshire · 03/02/2023 23:48

@AppleDumplingWithCustard I read that it was her home & a new rate negotiation or similar, rather than a client's, (although also a recent deal secured too I think) I know she was a mortgage advisor. Will go back and try to find the source. Possibly I was mistaken, but will go back and check. You're right, it's important facts like this are correct.

justgettingthroughtheday · 03/02/2023 23:54

I too struggle to believe she is in the river. Out of curiosity I did a google earth drive through the village looking specifically for cctv covering the exits of the river. But I could find very little. Maybe there's concealed cameras or cameras put in since the google maps were filmed but it seems unlikely.
Locked gates are not much of a barrier and so I don't understand why the police have ruled out other scenarios. There are several points where a vehicle could be got relatively close to where she was last seen.

I just hope to god she's found and the family get some answers

Peverellshire · 04/02/2023 00:02

@AppleDumplingWithCustard From an earlier Mirror article:

"We took them home, Nicola had had a meeting with her boss in Garstang and she said can you stay a bit later because I have an important client coming in on Zoom.

"We said no problem and stayed. She had done her work and she was very upbeat about getting HER mortgage sorted.

I took this to mean her own mortgage, lots of people are renegotiating rates currently, etc. She'd be particularly well placed for this. You can read it as she was happy she'd done her own work on this deal AND got her own mortgage sorted, too, OR (and this is probably what her father meant on reflection) she was happy to have negotiated the mortgage for this particular client. I am not sure. Context and personal circumstances may shed more light on this and other things.

2023pending · 04/02/2023 00:07

its so heartbreakingly sad. I hope whatever the outcome is she’s found

Strictlyfanoftenyears · 04/02/2023 00:14

Heres my thoughts (and I want it to be true so she is safe). She has some sort of breakdown, ties dog with harness to bench and leaves her phone (willow manages to escape harness 12/ 15 mins later). She carries on to Rowanswater or cuts through the caravan park and walks onto garstang, or alternatively if preplanned has a car parked somewhere around there. Partner may or may not be in on dissapearance depending on reason for her going. She takes long gilet off at some point (maybe bins it) as she has a normal coat on underneath, sticks a hat on too. Canoe man managed it so maybe........

tashx · 04/02/2023 00:18

@Strictlyfanoftenyears
I agree with you
It happens everyday

runningpram · 04/02/2023 00:26

It did cross my mind whether she perhaps fainted. If I'm rushing around in the morning I sometimes don't get time to eat breakfast until late, so I could have not eaten for 14-16 hours. But obviously cold weather and exercise require quite a bit of energy. The other morning I had a moment when I felt really light headed after having done this when I bent down.
If she had unintentionally done something like this and then picked up the ball near the water's edge she could have lost consciousness momentarily.

XelaM · 04/02/2023 00:26

tashx · 04/02/2023 00:18

@Strictlyfanoftenyears
I agree with you
It happens everyday

What do you mean it happens every day? Canoe man was certainly not a normal occurrence. Is it known if she had life insurance?

tashx · 04/02/2023 00:27

@XelaM
Everyday
Someone has a break down and needs a break from life

concernedalot · 04/02/2023 00:30

Strictlyfanoftenyears · 04/02/2023 00:14

Heres my thoughts (and I want it to be true so she is safe). She has some sort of breakdown, ties dog with harness to bench and leaves her phone (willow manages to escape harness 12/ 15 mins later). She carries on to Rowanswater or cuts through the caravan park and walks onto garstang, or alternatively if preplanned has a car parked somewhere around there. Partner may or may not be in on dissapearance depending on reason for her going. She takes long gilet off at some point (maybe bins it) as she has a normal coat on underneath, sticks a hat on too. Canoe man managed it so maybe........

Have you even read about this case? She regularly left the dog out of his harness at the riverside. You've created a totally fictional story in your head

XelaM · 04/02/2023 00:33

tashx · 04/02/2023 00:27

@XelaM
Everyday
Someone has a break down and needs a break from life

I think most people want a break from their lives at times, but to disappear without a trace and not contact your kids or anyone at all for a week is not a common occurrence

MovingOnwardsandUpwards · 04/02/2023 01:22

Wow, just went down a very weird little rabbit hole when I should be asleep!

Someone has screenshots showing that Nicola's DP has has had some issues with past and current businesses. They seem to be real. Obviously the police would know about this. Not sure of the inference as Nicola would need to be found to get any insurance payout but suggestion seems to be she had disappeared of her own volition.

Also claims of a Go Fund Me being started then removed. Looks like that was on Twitter.

I see Nicola's sister is urging people to remember the 'fallen into the river' is only a theory and there's no evidence to suggest this.

AnotherSpare · 04/02/2023 01:35

This thread is really distasteful. All the comments insinuating the missing woman's parter is involved are defamatory. None of the gossipy speculation is helpful for the police investigation. People are commenting here as though they have watched a TV drama.

Bluekerfuffle · 04/02/2023 02:55

The police don’t tell the public one thing while doing or thinking another. It would just make them look stupid. If they thought something else they wouldn’t say anything at all.

Jebboo · 04/02/2023 05:28

TheUsualChaos · 03/02/2023 23:22

It's starting to venture into social media circus territory isn't it 😕

Yes.

There are some ridiculous people posting on the family's FBs now.

freckles20 · 04/02/2023 07:43

AnotherSpare · 04/02/2023 01:35

This thread is really distasteful. All the comments insinuating the missing woman's parter is involved are defamatory. None of the gossipy speculation is helpful for the police investigation. People are commenting here as though they have watched a TV drama.

This. Just this.

This is not a TV drama.

Step away and be upset or curious or baffled about this awful situation in a more appropriate way.

MonkeysTea · 04/02/2023 07:53

It sounds like the police want to close the case and NB's family disagree, they want the search and investigations to continue. Speculations on SM keep the case current and that can be helpful for this case. It's the nature of social media, it's pretty much all distasteful and gossip. I agree though that some posts definitely lack propriety, that's unpleasant but inevitable on SM.

MayThe4th · 04/02/2023 08:23

It’s natural that the family are going to want to keep hoping while her body hasn’t been found.

In the absence of a body they will always hope that the police are wrong and that she could still be alive. But that doesn’t mean that she is. It just means that she hasn’t been found.

It can take weeks for a body to be found in water. If ever. If she had been swept out to sea she may. Never be found.

People often feel the same when a loved one e.g. dies in a plane crash and can never be found.

I know someone who died in the plane crash in Indonesia in the early 90’s, where the pilot killed himself and the passengers by deliberately plunging the plane into the ground. None of the bodies were recogniseable, and his wife said she kept thinking maybe he was wandering around looking for help. He wasn’t, but the fact his body could never be found meant she didn’t have that closure.

Hopefully her body will be found soon and then the family can grieve properly.

Strictlyfanoftenyears · 04/02/2023 08:36

concernedalot · 04/02/2023 00:30

Have you even read about this case? She regularly left the dog out of his harness at the riverside. You've created a totally fictional story in your head

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Blimey and breathe will you. I did say that I wanted it to be true so that she was safe......geez.

Eatentoomanyroses · 04/02/2023 08:36

The expert they had on sky seemed to be saying that if they’re using sonar they should have been able to see her in the water because you can cover long stretches with it. I was all convinced by the police until I saw that. He seemed to shed real doubt.

YourWinter · 04/02/2023 08:37

Are there bushes along the river where she might have popped behind to spend a penny, and lost her footing there rather than on the clear area in front of the bench? It would be harder to recover if her jeans weren’t pulled up?

Surely she’d have put her phone in her pocket, though, unless she thought that fumbling with her long gilet and coat she might disconnect the teams call. She could have told the dog to stay at the bench to discourage a passer-by from stealing the phone, but a long out-of-sight ‘stay’ is tough even for a very well trained dog.

I pray she is located swiftly whether alive or not, her poor family need answers.

User45378754 · 04/02/2023 08:41

Were there earlier reports from witnesses who came across the bench that the phone was on the ground 2ft away and was spotted, picked up and then placed on the bench by one of these people?

Or has that version been discredited?

MayThe4th · 04/02/2023 08:50

Eatentoomanyroses · 04/02/2023 08:36

The expert they had on sky seemed to be saying that if they’re using sonar they should have been able to see her in the water because you can cover long stretches with it. I was all convinced by the police until I saw that. He seemed to shed real doubt.

Sky news is nothing more than tabloid TV. I absolutely wouldn’t be taking any notice of some called expert on there.

Ponderoveryonder · 04/02/2023 09:32

I don’t agree about sky news. It’s won several industry awards for journalism and is far superior to BBC news (giving Aseem Malhotra a platform recently seemed quite the oversight).

GelPens1 · 04/02/2023 10:16

She could be in the river. She might’ve reached to grab something for the dog and then slipped on the muddy bank. Or maybe the dog slipped its harness whilst it was off the lead. She could’ve ran after her dog.

If she was surprised by the fall and then shocked by the freezing cold water then of course she wouldn’t scream. She may have hit her head on a rock and lost consciousness. People drown in shallow water if they have passed out. The dog may have panicked at seeing their owner and that’s why it was distressed and running about.

Or she might have wanted to disappear and planned this. Some people hide their MH issues very well.