Nicola Bulley Ch 5 9pm tonight

[Wilma55]

Couldn't see a thread on this....

My uncle committed suicide over 20 years ago. When the police found him in his home they noticed he’d bought the Radio Times for the following week suggesting it wasn’t something he’d planned to do. It’s tragic but sometimes people do just reach breaking point. I’m going through a mental health blip right now, and how I feel right now compared to how normal I felt last week in unbelievable. The only thing keeping me going is that I know from past experience I will get through this. I really feel for her and what must have been going through her mind.

Sorry if insensitive but have the police checked the trees? Such was her struggles at the time it surely can’t be discounted.

They initially said they weren't expanding on what the vulnerabilities were but they then released a statement saying she had issues with alcohol due to the menopause...

@EarringsandLipstick the police have said she had problems with alcohol and menopausal.

The police don't have to follow-up on all lines of speculation by randoms on the internet.

Do try to read.

I said that due to speculation, incessant pressure that they were 'missing something' and the level of contact they had from amateur sleuths spurred on by social media commentary, they were forced into this position of revealing private information.

This is just awful. Nicola's poor family. (And poor Nicola.) After 2.5 weeks, all this stuff suddenly starts surfacing about her being a 'vulnerable' person, and she is classed as being 'at risk' (I thought maybe she was depressed???) Then they said she is struggling because she's 'menopausal,' and on the news just now (ITV news at ten,) they just said she had issues with alcohol because she is menopausal!

WTF? As has been said, Nicola's private business being dredged up like this, is dreadful.

I agree with a pp that it's all so, so, SO weird. All the extensive amount of coverage, and all the twists and turns, the weird documentary with Dan Walker (that the police refused to take part in,) where Dan asked Nicola's partner 'are you OK?!' as if he had just had the tyres on his car popped, not lost his wife/mother of his children.

So much about all of this is so weird, odd, strange, baffling. I just can't get my head around it all.

I must have missed this - I just read the BBC account of the press conference and there was no mention of this.

Where was it reported? (Also not in the Guardian's update).

Because the police were involved with Nicola about 2 weeks before she disappeared their dealings on that occasion will be inspected, usually by another force. This is to ascertain if they handled the situation correctly, could they have done more etc. it’s a usual process I understand where there’s recent police contact and then there is a major development soon after.

Yes it's clear you missed it being so cocky and patronising to a pp.

Sit down and try to do some reading yourself.

Sorry, I revisited those sites now & see the updates re alcoholism / menopause. I hadn't followed it that closely.

All this stuff being "aired" now feels, I don't know, like a bad misogynistic cover up by police of their incompetence. You know - blame it all on the woman and her "menopausal craziness".

I beg your pardon? You are attacking me because I'm not obsessively following detail of a poor woman whose experienced tragedy?

And whose personal information has had to be released because utter obsessives wouldn't stop speculating about bizarre possibilities despite the police updates all along.

Dear God.

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Yes that's it. It's a police cover up. Not the police trying to stop this demented flow of conspiracy theories.

I admit the information re her medical condition, including the menopause, seems a little bizarre but I feel there is a degree of protection / sensitivity being provided in doing so.

Attack? You're a hypocrite if you think that's an "attack" but how you speak to other posters is ok?
Go back and read your posts of nonsense. Stop making up a false narrative.

Bloody hell.

That is just beyond ridiculous!!! Some women have an absolutely hellish time going through the menapause and there is a significant sucide rate as well!!

If the police aren't incompetent, why haven't they solved this by now?
They haven't, so they slander the poor woman with the whole "she be crazy" narrative.

Yes I seen that if that was the case she shouldn't have been driving. My older brother is a recovering alcoholic. He can't be trusted not to have had a drink before driving. He has crashed the car a few times. But claimed someone had gone into him. He arrived at my house one night obviously been drinking. I had to hide his keys and ring police she was going mental. Then neighbour knocked said he had gone into her son's car. He also can't have a debit card or access to money. To avoid temptation.

Er, what? Are you unable to write a coherent sentence?

You make zero sense.

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I hate these kind of open/shut lazy policing cases.

We are now supposed to believe that this suicidally depressed, menopausal alcoholic woke up on time and got 2 young children up, fed, dressed, dropped off at school on time, walked the dog, attended a work meeting, killed herself and disposed of her own body all by 10am.

She also returned like on time like clockwork, so that they were panicky within 30minutes.

Sounds incredibly efficient for someone who is at that stage of their life.

Shameful and clumsy of the police to make this announcement right now. Sounds like scapegoating the victim.

I know. I'm not dismissing that. I think you're misunderstanding me.

I'm saying that it feels like the police have decided to slander the poor woman to excuse their inability to work out what has happened.

I'd rather they just find the truth rather than raise all this stuff about her.

Good grief. Some people have been watching too many cop dramas on here.

If the police aren't incompetent, why haven't they solved this by now?

How can they 'solve' it? Do you know how often (sadly) people go missing beat water, presumed drowned, and their bodies are never recovered, or recovered many weeks later?

I have personal experience of this where it took 7 weeks for a body to be found. The body was found exactly where the person was last seen, despite extensive searches.

No one did anything wrong. It was the nature of the water.

Your posts are unhinged. And speculation like this is exactly why the police have had to give more personal information.

it feels like the police have decided to slander the poor woman to excuse their inability to work out what has happened

Sharing information is not slander.

They are not magicians. They can do their best but sadly, they cannot always find a body no matter how much they wish to.