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lemmein · 15/02/2023 19:14

Fuck it, I'm opening another one. If the mods delete it fair enough.

I don't believe the menopause or even alcoholism explains a woman vanishing into thin air with no evidence left behind.

This whole case stinks!

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CloudySuns · 16/02/2023 17:05

plumduck · 16/02/2023 16:34

Have there been any updates on the police searches today? Are they still looking in the river?

Article makes clear the investigation is still Live but no further detail about the physical search

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64665835.amp

plumduck · 16/02/2023 17:05

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 16/02/2023 17:02

I have no issue with people discussing the case in general.

What I take issue with is the endless speculation, jokes, 'comical' emojis, and twisting of the facts for entertainment. All I know is that if this was happening to someone I loved, I'd be heartbroken.

And yes, I have reported, but I'm challenging it on the thread as well because I genuinely think it's wrong.

Yes it was ok when it was actual updates.

There shouldn't be lols

ofwarren · 16/02/2023 17:06

plumduck · 16/02/2023 16:51

Anyone?

There's been nothing I've seen.
Just endless talk about the vulnerabilities.

plumduck · 16/02/2023 17:06

CloudySuns · 16/02/2023 17:05

Article makes clear the investigation is still Live but no further detail about the physical search

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64665835.amp

Thank you very much that is most appreciated.

Nicknacky · 16/02/2023 17:07

01R019 · 16/02/2023 17:04

@Nicknacky a statement like that, would normally actually come from the family, broadcasted out on the news, like any other missing person appeal. Not from the police, on from what I can see a Facebook update, after they have just by what it looks like released very sensitive information about a women who is missing. To which they have received an anormous amount of backlash from.

The police often release statements from families, it’s incredibly common.

And you think the family should go straight to the media with their statements? After the amount of intrusive, appalling speculation that the media have broadcast?

01R019 · 16/02/2023 17:11

@Nicknacky in my opinion it's very convenient they spent a huge amount of time yesterday trying to change the narrative of the story. From the press conference to the statement released after. Where they stated we have explain to the family why we have to release this information. So it's not something the family had a choice about. It then opened up another level of speculation, and now all of a sudden the family are releasing a statement through the police that generally insinuates Nicola was in crisis. But this isn't at all to do with the police wanting the heat off them. That is my point. I really don't mean to be disrespectful to the family, if any other main poster thinks I have been, then I'll report my posts to MN.

Bellalalala · 16/02/2023 17:11

Love how a statement from family is released, disproving so much of the speculation on this thread.

So posters start the ‘the police must have wrote that’. Except the statement, if written by the police would have said the consented to them releasing the information. Rather than ‘we knew’. So the family were allowed to edit that but? But nothing else? They got no say in the rest?

Couldn’t possibly be that it is actually their statement and many people on this thread, are wrong. Because they don’t know all the details. Must be the police’s statement.

Couldn’t possibly that people were trying to seek a story about her. Because people never do that? The police must have lied to them. Even with no evidence pointing to that?

People are simply speculating because it keeps it exciting and they don’t want to stop.

Winnet · 16/02/2023 17:12

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ofwarren · 16/02/2023 17:12

twitter.com/ByDanSales/status/1626231977950216197?t=9wstKwc3SKZlrBbTrcK2SQ&s=19

Police watchdog the IOPC is looking into whether it needs to investigate Lancashire Police over the force's previous contact with Nicola Bulley 17 days before she went missing

An IOPC spokesperson told MailOnline: “Following information that was made public by Lancashire Constabulary yesterday, we have made contact with the force to determine if a referral to the IOPC may be required.”

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 16/02/2023 17:14

lemmein · 16/02/2023 17:05

Yet you're the only one who has had their post deleted!

No idea why. Iirc I was just calling out another poster who was finding it all amusing. No personal attacks, no speculation.

And of course I'm not the only person who has had a post deleted on these threads. There are probably hundreds of deleted posts.

Goldpaw · 16/02/2023 17:18

There are probably hundreds of deleted posts

Is that how many you've made?

ofwarren · 16/02/2023 17:20

twitter.com/leponline/status/1626269887269052417?t=NEaIYkOygaIViH_PvRFpjA&s=19

Nicola Bulley: the scenes as police patrols continue in Knott End and St Michael's as part of Nicola Bulley investigation
Police patrols as part of the investigation into the disapearance of Nicola Bulley have continued today

@plumduck this has just been posted by Lancashire Evening Post.

lemmein · 16/02/2023 17:22

No idea why. Iirc I was just calling out another poster who was finding it all amusing. No personal attacks, no speculation.

Fair enough - I didn't see it.

You're right though, lots of posts have been deleted over the threads; so MN are keeping an eye on them and deleting where appropriate. I've reported a few myself who have been speculating on family members behaviour.

I truly don't understand why posters have such an issue with discussing this when it's the top news story in all the media outlets. Disrespectful posts are deleted - wild speculations are deleted. My main posts have been aimed at the police, not Nicola and certainly not her family.

Some of the abuse posters have had on these threads is bizarre, especially @ofwarren - it's not ok.

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01R019 · 16/02/2023 17:23

@Bellalalala to be honest with you, the negativity towards the police started around day 3, and this has now just made it worse. Not that we can't believe the family have said it, but more that it's more likely they haven't. The police were going on and on and on about the river, at the same time you have Paul saying publicly it's not the river. So putting 2 and 2 together I'd say they haven't agreed with the police at all.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 16/02/2023 17:23

Goldpaw · 16/02/2023 17:18

There are probably hundreds of deleted posts

Is that how many you've made?

Have some dignity. Just a tiny bit.

Anyway, I'm leaving you all to it, you'll be delighted to hear. Enjoy yourselves. Hopefully it never happens to somebody you actually care about.

Bluekerfuffle · 16/02/2023 17:24

lemmein · 16/02/2023 17:22

No idea why. Iirc I was just calling out another poster who was finding it all amusing. No personal attacks, no speculation.

Fair enough - I didn't see it.

You're right though, lots of posts have been deleted over the threads; so MN are keeping an eye on them and deleting where appropriate. I've reported a few myself who have been speculating on family members behaviour.

I truly don't understand why posters have such an issue with discussing this when it's the top news story in all the media outlets. Disrespectful posts are deleted - wild speculations are deleted. My main posts have been aimed at the police, not Nicola and certainly not her family.

Some of the abuse posters have had on these threads is bizarre, especially @ofwarren - it's not ok.

The poster was not finding “it all” amusing, only the fact that the thread police are such hypocrites who clearly hang around reading everything.

01R019 · 16/02/2023 17:26

@JesusInTheCabbageVan there is of course negative and positives to it being spoken about. I'm sorry you feel so strongly about it being wrong to speak about it in a respectful way. I think minus the accusations, I'd want it covered as big as this if it was someone I loved.

Commonsensitivity · 16/02/2023 17:26

Just a question for any police officers on here.
Is it normally for police to give out a 101 number for information in relation to a high risk missing person? Or would there be a specialist dedicated number?

SoTedious · 16/02/2023 17:27

So posters start the ‘the police must have wrote that’. Except the statement, if written by the police would have said the consented to them releasing the information.

I don't think they would get away with lying - and this is what makes that "aware of" wording so awkward and odd. Why not say they agreed it or gave permission together unless they didn't? It sounds like the police told them what they were doing, the family didn't like it, but they did it anyway.

Or as the BBC puts it: Her family said she would not have wanted the information released, but police had kept them informed.

Bellalalala · 16/02/2023 17:30

01R019 · 16/02/2023 17:23

@Bellalalala to be honest with you, the negativity towards the police started around day 3, and this has now just made it worse. Not that we can't believe the family have said it, but more that it's more likely they haven't. The police were going on and on and on about the river, at the same time you have Paul saying publicly it's not the river. So putting 2 and 2 together I'd say they haven't agreed with the police at all.

How is it more likely they haven’t?

Do you really believe that her partner wouldn’t be going straight to the press, if the family hadn’t wrote this statement?

The police based their theory on the information they had.

Paul may not think she has gone in. But he might be wrong. He also said there was no reason for her to do anything to herself or disappear under her own steam. That turned out not to quite right either.

And Paul isn’t her only family. He may think she didn’t go in the water. Her parents and wider family may now feel she did. We can all speculate.

PF said she wasn’t in the water. Now with the new information he conceded that she could have been and been taken out to sea.

How are you so sure that she didn’t go in the river? Non of us know either way. And we don’t have the level of detail the police have.

If it turns out she was in the water is everyone going to backtrack and talk about how the police was right.

Merkins · 16/02/2023 17:32

01R019 · 16/02/2023 17:23

@Bellalalala to be honest with you, the negativity towards the police started around day 3, and this has now just made it worse. Not that we can't believe the family have said it, but more that it's more likely they haven't. The police were going on and on and on about the river, at the same time you have Paul saying publicly it's not the river. So putting 2 and 2 together I'd say they haven't agreed with the police at all.

It’s been 3 weeks and the police have kept Paul updated throughout. It’s entirely possible that he has come to realise that there is a high probability she went in the river, based on things the police have told him but not us. He will have been in denial and may be moving towards acceptance, who knows? Personally, I think this is probably the case given what we do now know.

A public and media circus has been created which is out of his control. I don’t blame him for stepping back, he must feel violated as well as wretched.

Bellalalala · 16/02/2023 17:32

SoTedious · 16/02/2023 17:27

So posters start the ‘the police must have wrote that’. Except the statement, if written by the police would have said the consented to them releasing the information.

I don't think they would get away with lying - and this is what makes that "aware of" wording so awkward and odd. Why not say they agreed it or gave permission together unless they didn't? It sounds like the police told them what they were doing, the family didn't like it, but they did it anyway.

Or as the BBC puts it: Her family said she would not have wanted the information released, but police had kept them informed.

Because maybe they actually didn’t want to release it, but also agreed that it should be released under the circumstances.

Their statement (and at this point is it is their statement) makes it clear how they feel about people making up their facts about the case. But people continue to do it.

Winnet · 16/02/2023 17:36

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ofwarren · 16/02/2023 17:37

twitter.com/Independent/status/1626273159086317568?t=DLw4XwnxIxWTdY8iF5N2Tw&s=19

"🚨BREAKING: Braverman demands police explain disclosure of private Nicola Bulley information"

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