Missing Woman Nicola Bulley 4

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www.lep.co.uk/news/crime/nicola-bulley-day-13-latest-updates-as-search-for-missing-mum-continues-4017066

Lancashire Evening Post has just posted this update.

👏🏼 👏🏼 100% agree

I find it hard to believe a woman of NB's age would a wee during a dog walk of that timescale.

And what’s the chances of having a piece of string on you?

If I found a phone on the ground and a dog I don't think I'd immediately jump to abducted/call the police. You wouldn't even necessarily know they belonged to the same person. I think I'd assume that the person had dropped their phone on the hunt for their missing dog.

Or I'd tell myself I was being silly and she'd just gone somewhere. I'd tie the dog up and probably go somewhere (like the caravan site I owned) and keep an eye.

It's easy to say "oh I'd call the police" but not everyone is the same, and if you've not been in that situation you don't know. It's also easy to convince yourself your being silly, or feel creeped out and get out of there. It doesn't make someone guilty just because they don't behave perfectly.

@Spencerfloral you're being offensive now. You're not the post police so stop trying to be.

Some of the questions are important ones.
If you read the thread you will find an enormous of empathy for everyone.

It is okay to ask questions. No one has accused anyone - it’s a discussion, and it’s helpful to the family. The last thing they want is the media and public to move on.

Have you missed the countless times over the years that police have got investigations dreadfully wrong?

Sometimes families spend years not giving up and new investigations find original ones have made assumptions, ignored possible lines of inquiry, lost evidence, etc etc etc.

The police have a long track record of getting things wrong.

The comms on this one have been dreadful, whether the police are on top of things or not.

And how many times do they get things right?

I grew up thinking every one was nice. Every time at the park we saw the pedo types and weirdo's watching families etc. Saville tried to chat to us, and we changed parks he lived near there. Went to a dog show and we got a flasher there. I once drove to a country fair, and I was scared because I got this guy following me. I pretended to go shopping, and he went round the streets looking for me. He was only stopped because I begged the police at the fair to stop him following me back when I left. So I don't trust ppl much.

If I found a phone and a lone dog, I'd probably wait a minute maximum and then call the police definitely!

But if you knew both the person on the phone AND the dog, and the phone was on the ground in wet weather - still on a teams meeting - are you sure you would just tie up the dog and go? It’s an interesting decision.

Right you know how her family feel do you? You know they won't be reading social media. You are an idiot.

You don't give a stuff about her or her family you just want to gossip and speculate as it's fun for you. It's an 'intellectual puzzle'

Posters have slandered both witnesses and her partner and that's ok as it's all just a game

Disgusting I have contacted mumsnet to get this thread deleted.

Maybe whassap your mates that way her parents partner children and friends won't see
The horrible comments

I've read very post on this thread. The op has continued to be respectful throughout. There has been a minority number of posts that have been disrespectful and they have been reported. The biggest issue is people complaining about the thread and the people accessing it. Whilst I don't doubt you need to comment in order feel you are better than everyone else. But if you or anyone else doesn't like the thread. Don't open it, don't read the posts . Just carry on with your life.

I'm not sure why some posters are offended by these threads - no one has been called names, it's just discussion and personal thoughts/wonderings, but above all, huge sympathies are with her family and I think we all just want Nicola to be found safe and well.

I think this has struck a chord with many of us; it's so baffling, the only way to process it is discussing and talking.

But respectfully. Which is how it's been (except a few nutty posters, but just report them!).

It’s not just “debate” though is it when innocent people start getting blamed. It’s like when those university students in America got murdered and everyone from the roommates to the teachers were getting slandered online because people fancied themselves detectives. Luckily, a lot of those people who were falsely accused have sued.

Sorry but is there a link to that?

Given the exact security camera that would have seen what happened to her was broken shortly before her disappearance, it would be hugely significant if she’d been getting the feeling someone was watching her on her walks wouldn’t it?

There seems to me to be a concerted effort to shut down any criticism of how the police have handled this by telling anyone who queries their insistence she went in the river that they are not entitled to know all the facts.

Lots!

My point was that those saying the police know what they're doing full stop are ignoring the many cases when they've made mistakes. I wasn't saying the police never get it right. It's just naive to assume the police are automatically right just because they're the police.

It was a photo she posted on social media. It was foggy I think, that's what was spooky.

It’s become a matter of national interest now and it’s natural people will speculate as it’s such a weird case and not solved yet

Which is fine, until you consider the number of other missing person threads HQ have taken down because of "speculation" ...

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/nicola-bulley-missing-dog-walker-mortgage-b2273546.html?amp

Who is speculating about her boyfriend?

Interesting to see if the police come up with anything on the 700 cars leaving the area they have traced from CCTV and have written to apparently.

I thought it was a small village, is it really that busy?

As if anyone who MAY have taken her are going to write back and say, yeah, it's a fair cop gov.

They'd have to forensically inspect all of the cars too to be able to rule them out.

It's an impossible task which is why they've probably shied away from it being a crime. Also buys them more time I suppose.

I'm believing the police are right in this case not because they're police, but because they've said they haven't released all the facts and they seem very sure.

I do hope the family get answers ASAP. It must be agonising.

I’m sorry but you’re the one here getting overly offended. I’ve just explained to you why people are interested but you appear to think people shouldn’t ask any questions.

Of course I don’t know what her family is doing but if it was someone in my family I wouldn’t be sat reading Internet forums about it.