Found Deceased UK - Nicola Bulley Last Seen Walking Dog Near River - St Michaels on Wyre (Lancashire) #16

[GeorgeFormby]

PF said his team searched 3 or 4 miles of the river, so the likelihood of them searching this stretch, and further up stream towards where the phone was found, is 99.999%, I'd say. PF was adamant that NB wasn't in the river.
If this is NB, I hope her family have the strength to get through this awful time, and that NB may rest in peace.

 

[ayrshireguy]

So he was brought in by the police then....

Yep

 

[willyengland]

I measured the distance in the river in google maps and it is 1,9 km from the bench.

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

As I understand it, PA asked PF to join the search. But because there was still an active police investigation going on, PF could only search the area with their permission, and only where they told him to search.

 

[dotr]

Body found by police in hunt for Nicola Bulley after tip from walkers

A body has been found in the search for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley in the River Wyre, more than three weeks after her disappearance.

www.dailymail.co.uk

''Before the discovery was confirmed, a witness said: 'I drove down Rawcliffe Road for almost a mile. I noticed a man and a woman and two police officers on the embankment.

'I pulled off at about 11.50am and I heard the man talking to police about something in the undergrowth.

'Police cars were flying down the road with the blues and twos going. A police officer pulled up a few minutes later and got his drone out.

'Five minutes later the police helicopter arrived. Officers then asked to me get out so I moved 200 yards down the road.

'I could still clearly see the man pointing at the riverbank. Then more police cars raced down with the blues and twos going. They cleared the entire road.'

The man and woman were later seen sat on a wall by the scene looking ashen faced and vaping.''

Around a dozen vehicles remain at the scene where police located a body

 

[Erutan]

Very easy to disprove this theory. Injuries, cause of death and a body that clearly hadn't been in the water for 3 weeks. Complete non starter of an idea

Accident would be my first guess.

 

[Inspector Evans]

I actually like Peter Bleksley. He isn't an unknown who appears out of nowhere when there is some drama/profile raising to be had. He's on the media quite a lot - ie such as GB News - re policing issues and tends to talk sense. JMO.

First came across him on Hunted the channel 4 show. Media is always going to ask for expert opinion to fill the hours before police issue an update.

 

[Sloth12]

Obviously the post mortem will be vital, if cause of death was purely a drowning then we will probably never know if she accidentally fell in the river, threw herself in or was pushed in. If she intentionally went into the river, she could have taken a running jump into the deepest and fastest flowing part of the river, which may have affected how far her body moved once in the water, and subsequent searches who assumed she slipped down the bank into the shallow slow moving part. It is also still possible she was murdered and dumped in the river (remember Steve Wright in Ipswich), her body could have been hidden elsewhere and dumped later (after most of the searches), to make it look like a drowning. Lots of possibilities still to be cleared up, but at least her family will get some kind of closure now and hopefully a definitive answer to what happened.

 

[Destroyer]

Body found : Location
Source : SKY NEWS

 

[Sara11272]

If it turns out she did drown and has been found in the river, it doesn't say much for that specialist dive expert Lancashire Police brought in.
He said she definitely wasn't in there, other wise he'd have found her.
It'll make him look a bit silly, especially as he was so egoistical and sure of himself.

More ‘who invited himself in’ I would say.

And yes, I’d have thought stating anything ‘100%’ in these sort of cases (like he did, if I remember correctly, both about Nicola being AND not being in the river) is liable to make themselves look a bit foolish.

RIP Nicola, assuming this is her.

 

[Destroyer]

Body Found : Location
Source : SKY NEWS

 

[pineapple23]

RIP - seems likely to be poor NB. I feel a little nauseous for her family and girls especially.

Yes I felt queasy when the news broke. I just want to cry for her family (assuming it's her). I hope some of those who have been spouting convoluted theories, fantasy and downright lies will give it a rest now and leave the family alone but the damage won't be undone anytime soon. The village itself will probably take time to recover.

 

[Luxee]

Well, he would've had to have had their permission to search the river...he can't have just turned up and jumped in the river, in case he ruined the police's investigation.

He came to be involved by the family asking Lancs Police if he could search as he was offering the family his services for free.

 

[ayrshireguy]

Body Found : Location
Source : SKY NEWS

Body was found on the river bend. Possibly caught there

 

[Luxee]

So he was brought in by the police then....

No. That’s incorrect informatio.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

So body found, in the water, not more than a mile from last location.

This is so so often the case with water deaths. I am still amazed that despite all the searching - and by experts in this case - the bodies are never found until weeks later, and not that far away, as I have said before.

Sad ending but probably the most logical of all the suggestions (abduction, etc) in the end. Her poor children and family... doesn't bear thinking about.

 

[Luxee]

Oh yes I forgot that Mr Sonar complained that he had restrictions on where he could search. That might not go away quietly.

That may depend on how the msm choose to approach this. Sadly it seems to be about clicks and indulging PF may get them clicks. It would be wonderful if he wasn’t given the airspace, column inches.

 

[Deleted member 313013]

That poor family.

"Police have criticised online sleuths spreading false information about the disappearance of Nicola Bulley, saying rumours are "distracting" officers investigating the case.".

Nicola Bulley: The 'myths' and 'false information' dispelled by police investigating her disappearance

Officers said they have been "inundated with false information, accusations and rumours" about Ms Bulley and that several "persistent myths" that have gone viral on social media are having to be debunked.

news.sky.com

 

[PS8800]

That doesn’t sound familiar to me. PA placed the call to Police. Police asked him to return home as they would send officers to his home address and the bench area.
Below is a paragraph I have taken from the transcript by @Allabouttrial of the PA/DW interview. This can be found in full in the media thread.

Paul - Nothing, nothing. I'd rung 999 on the way because I obviously knew something was wrong so the police rang me then while I was at the bench and said 'look you've got to get home because the police are going to be coming to your house, we need somebody at your house. You get home the police are on their way there. So I've rung the police at like.. about 10:50 and they were there, they got there at 25 past. So they were there really, really quick. So I then, I'd gone home then, ta

So how far in miles is the place the body has been found from the bench

I think reports have mentioned 1 mile

 

[ayrshireguy]

So body found, in the water, not more than a mile from last location.

This is so so often the case with water deaths. I am still amazed that despite all the searching - and by experts in this case - the bodies are never found until weeks later, and not that far away, as I have said before.

Sad ending but probably the most logical of all the suggestions (abduction, etc) in the end. Her poor children and family... doesn't bear thinking about.

So often the case.

A lad went missing near to me a while back. His body was found in an area police and search teams had searched at least twice.