Found Deceased UK - Nicola Bulley Last Seen Walking Dog Near River - St Michaels on Wyre (Lancashire) #13

[IKnowNowt]

Still no mention of the dog lead, unless I've missed it? In her FB photos it's a retractable lead. She may have put it in her pocket? I did on occasion, when walking my dog, although it was bulky and a tight fit. Was she known to ever use a standard length lead at all? When I did, I wore it looped around my neck. After a particularly frightening encounter with a man in the woods, I stopped putting it around my neck as I feared being strangled with it.

 

[ginnyw]

FYI, this goes into more detail of what a 'high risk' missing person is and what happens:

Missing persons | College of Policing

This page is from APP, the official source of professional practice for policing.

www.college.police.uk

 

[alena_b83]

https://pure.port.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/1548080/Attitude_to_the_risk_assessment_process_final.pdf

“This assessment of risk will lead to one of three outcomes

High Risk – “The risk posed is immediate and there are substantial grounds for believing that the subject is in danger through their own vulnerability; or [as a] victim of serious crime; or...the public is in danger”.

Medium Risk – “The risk posed is likely to place the subject in danger or they are a threat to themselves or others”.

Low – “There is no apparent threat of danger to either the subject or the public. [those] under 18 should not be included in this classification”.”

 

[jojojaja]

I assumed taking over her media accounts is about the abuse aspect from random people and not in terms of tracking NB... some of the comments I have seen are terrible so it makes sense..IMO

I accidentally posted before writing anything! So I have opened up to edit in what I was going to add.

Professor David Wilson told the press earlier in in the search for Nicola, some of the procedures the police would be going through. Going through her social media was mentioned.

They would have wanted to know more about her and her life, if she had talked of any future plans, problems, if anyone had caused her issues, friends she talked to they may not have known about... they will have checked her phone, emails, all sorts.

Scots criminologist examines Nicola Bulley case and details 5 possible theories

Former Daily Record columnist Professor David Wilson said police will consider five options when investigating the disappearance including abduction or an accident.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

 

[ginnyw]

Also this paragraph from a BBC article is interesting:
Eighty per cent of adults who go missing have mental health issues. And myriad factors such as alcoholism, domestic abuse, debt, medical problems and relationship problems can play a part.

What happens when someone goes missing?

Vital clues may be found in the first few hours after someone disappears. But how do police decide which cases to prioritise?

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[cottonweaver]

If LE consider no evidence of 3rd party, why take over the SM accounts? That seems to me like they are still proactively looking for clues.
So an outward dismissive attitude and inwardly still investigating? One can only hope.

did you watch the presser? ' dismissive attitude' to 3rd party involvement?

 

[Liverpool86]

But you can’t know how people feel in this situ. You aren’t Nicola. I also have a dog, and can’t imagine leaving the dog or my kids, but this lady did - accident or design. Who is to say she did anything in front of the dog, it was loose.

Everyone is individual and has their own experiences I am aware. I did previously state that I myself have been suicidal in the past, I consider myself to have some insight into how people feel in that situation (although as you rightly said, I’m not Nicola).So I am just giving my opinion, having been in the discussed situation, being a mother, a dog owner, having experience of my own dogs behaviour (again I realise they’re all different). It is just an opinion.

 

[cottonweaver]

I assumed taking over her media accounts is about the abuse aspect from random people and not in terms of tracking NB... some of the comments I have seen are terrible so it makes sense..IMO

also wondered if

- should NB suffer from emotional/ MH - rather than medical conditions, they might want to look at her posts, replies etc?
( although it could be anything)

 

[flysleuthD]

I assumed taking over her media accounts is about the abuse aspect from random people and not in terms of tracking NB... some of the comments I have seen are terrible so it makes sense..IMO

Wish they had done it sooner. <modsnip>

 

[ginnyw]

also wondered if

- should NB suffer from emotional/ MH - rather than medical conditions, they might want to look at her posts, replies etc?
( although it could be anything)

If the police did originally say 'sensitivities' in their earlier presser rather than 'vulnerabilities' then that implies to me that it's not a physical ailment/illness but a mental one. JMO.

 

[NextSprint]

I assumed taking over her media accounts is about the abuse aspect from random people and not in terms of tracking NB... some of the comments I have seen are terrible so it makes sense..IMO

We don't know what the purpose is. It could be as simple as finding out who she'd been talking to, what kind of pages she was looking at, etc.

 

[Italia]

If the police did originally say 'sensitivities' in their earlier presser rather than 'vulnerabilities' then that implies to me that it's not a physical ailment/illness but a mental one. JMO.

I thought it was more attributed more generally to the situation , case rather than Nicola as having ‘sensitivities’? That would be strange wording /expression no?

 

[NextSprint]

The last photo,in respect of what we now know, is even more poignant and my goodness, NB does not look well in it - very thin. Second photo down in this article:

Last pictures of missing Nicola Bulley caught on CCTV

New CCTV images have been shared by Nicola's friends

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Perhaps the Marie Curie post left on her FB page is all the more telling then. There is reference to life insurance for cancer on her professional FB page also.

 

[BensonP]

If LE consider no evidence of 3rd party, why take over the SM accounts? That seems to me like they are still proactively looking for clues.
So an outward dismissive attitude and inwardly still investigating? One can only hope.

Perhaps to stop any hurtful comments and to investigate private conversations.

 

[Teabag57]

If the police did originally say 'sensitivities' in their earlier presser rather than 'vulnerabilities' then that implies to me that it's not a physical ailment/illness but a mental one. JMO.

They didn’t mention sensitivities at all.

 

[ginnyw]

They didn’t mention sensitivities at all.

Oh, ok, sorry. Thought somebody mentioned it earlier on this thread but I must have got the wrong end of the stick.

 

[Italia]

Perhaps the Marie Curie post left on her FB page is all the more telling then. There is reference to life insurance for cancer on her professional FB page also.

Perhaps police just left it coz it’s a positive post , thing to do, achievement, a neutral, unrelated post ie. not a troll

 

[kittythehare]

Perhaps the Marie Curie post left on her FB page is all the more telling then. There is reference to life insurance for cancer on her professional FB page also.

She sold mortgage policies, it would be there , on her business page, for that reason.

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

The actual wording used was 'a number of specific vulnerabilities'

Ah, that's definitive then. Thanks!

And it somewhat suggests vulnerabilities of varying types, so rather than focus on mental or physical health, I'd be inclined to suspect a combination of different things. All in all, it suggests she probably isn't/wasn't as healthy as we'd previously been led to believe.

 

[lvbut]

I think the police need a warrant to look at social media, so perhaps that's the reason they haven't done it until now. Although I would have thought a warrant would be easy to obtain, maybe Facebook are not to easy to deal with.

Don’t quote me on this but I’m fairly certain they said PA had agreed to it? Something along those lines? Would they not have looked at that initially, as they had NB’s phone?