Missing Woman Nicola Bulley 3

[ofwarren]

I couldn't see another post so thought I'd create one.

There is a police press conference this afternoon. I can't see a time for this but it's sounding like a routine one.

Which they don't have evidence of either.

You'll forgive me if I don't take everything he says as gospel, comon sense tells us that entering a muddy silt bottomed river unexpectedly on a cold day fully clothed is an unpredictable situation

He can't possibly know a person would start swimming

I don’t think they have much of a clue either. They have more or less said that by saying the “most likely” scenario is her being in the river, (which it does seem to be to me), but they are still open to other scenarios and looking into them. No one has a clue as there doesn’t seem to be any evidence or anything.

There's no way out of the immediate area without either crossing the river or emerging onto the main road.

So are you suggesting that she crossed the river and is now wandering towards Preston across the fields? Or are you suggesting that she was abducted and carried over fences by someone who lives in the area bounded by the river and the main road?

I dont have a fitbit but from what I've read by people who know about them that isn't possible, thats just not how they work

Ah right ok thanks for that in one way it is good to know because it does open up to the possibility that she did walk away.

Or - and this is clearly a radical idea to a lot of you - people could just have the basic common decency to not speculate on social media about things that are really none of their business.
It's not the police's job to ensure every tiny detail is available to the general public. The police will have known very early on that they both work from home and have cctv. They do not need to state to the media or you or anyone else that someone is not a suspect. People should just have the plain common sense and integrity to not publicly accuse others of a crime with no evidence whatsoever.

I think the NCA has reviewed the procedures and found that Lancashire Constabulary have followed procedures.

However, if the team are convinced she went into the river, then that has a big effect on how rigourously aspects outside that theory are pursued

If they had evidence she went in the water, what possible reasons could there be for withholding this from the public?

That’s it’s none of the public’s business.

Yes, but it needed to start somewhere to rule out, right? It did appear to be the low hanging outcome. Just not sure where they'd head next after underwater search in vain.

It's frustrating they think she went into the river but they've no evidence.

I think the police usually know more than what they let on.

They would have not found any evidence of a struggle or any witnesses.
And she left her phone on a bench on a work call and the dog was still there.

I can’t see any other explanation than her falling into the water.

The only other explanation would have been an abduction but there would have been lots of evidence pointing to that, which so far there isn’t and I’m sure they looked into it to try and rule it out.

I highly doubt she is alive but I just hope the family know what happened and find her body so they can get closure.

Today the police officer seemed to be stressing that there's a possibility/likelihood that she 'has been' in the river. If that's the case, where is she now and how did she get out? (Gazillion dollar question I know!)

But @Nicknacky it would stop all the speculation which is upsetting her family

Question for someone local, is there any river traffic there? Or does the weir prohibit boats?

Would it really stop the speculation? I very much doubt that, but the general public don’t need to know the details and are capable of stoping the speculation by not speculating.

They do, but the public don’t have a right to that information or any information that won’t directly help with the investigation eg the timings of events and the clothes she was wearing. They have a duty to protect the investigation, family and Nicola herself.

Took 4 weeks with the person I knew. They fell in a river this time of year. The cold slows decomposition down.

@pigsinoodies im not suggesting anything. Literally just giving facts as someone who has been to and walked around the area many times. Which you have then repeated back to me.

IF she was in the river & IF he could do it the way he intended, unrestricted.

I've never ever seen a boat up there. I don't think they can cross the weir

@Goldpaw Yes - essentially following correct procedure for a single hypothesis approach, which is what many people are finding frustrating.

If the police have evidence that she is in the water, yet are withholding it from the public, then fair enough. But why then withold it from the family if no criminality is expected in this case? Isnt that just cruel?

Or given what we know so far, isn't it most likely that the police have no evidence still that she was in the water.

Then Peter Faulding's slip up about NB "in the water" will have possibly compromised the investigations. I don't think the Daily Mail are in the habit of deleting or editing video footage after they have published it on their website. way too much hassle. They were told to delete the footage where Peter Faulding blurted this little detail out.

Where have you heard that they haven’t told the family what they know?