Nicola Bulley

[RichardM]

Are you suggesting foul play

No, just wondering what might have happened.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Wondering Winnifred and the electric gate come's to mind

 

[nickjdavis]

I fell in the river in the winter,backwards,with fishing box and rod bag slung round my neck, when I was about 16... if my mate wasn't there I'd have drowned.
Totally frozen I stripped off and dried my clothes by a fire a farmer had lit burning some hedge that was pulled out.
I recon she's fell in...looking at the river on the news it was fast,deep and with high banks...a few minutes in there this time of year with thick clothing you're knackered.

40 years ago....me and my mates went fishing on the very stretch of the Wyre just a couple of hundred yards downstream from where Nicola Bulley disappeared. My mate slipped on an icy bank (the banks are built up as a flood defence to protect fields before dropping down to a riverside footpath and then a further drop into the water) and fell in. Luckily he'd taken off his box and rod bag and was a strong swimmer and we were able to help fish him out 40 yards down stream.

We were luckily enough to find the local pub was open with a roaring log fire for him to dry himself out by.

I wonder how far down stream they went. In an interview their boss said the river was too shallow and slow for a body to move far.

If my teenage memories are correct, at low tide there is a shallow section close to the bridge where the road crosses just downstream from where she fell in....but depending on tides the water could be deeper...apart from this shallow section however, downstrea the river is deep and flows reasonably quickly.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

This is getting strange i assumed they found her in the river but according to Mr Faulding she was in a reed bed not in the river.


A forensic search expert brought in by the family of Nicola Bulley to help find her says he was "not tasked to search the reeds" where a body was pulled from the water on Sunday 19 February.

Peter Faulding's team from Specialist Group International (SIG), were brought in to look for Ms Bulley ten days after she went missing while walking her dog along the river in St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Mr Faulding said his team's task was to clear the river and at the time of his search, there was no body in the river.

He said: "Our search was not in the reeds, our main focus was above the bench area.

"I can hand on heart say we did our best, but she was not on the river bed, we would have seen her clearly."

The team from SIG stopped their search on Wednesday 8 February, after Mr Faulding said Nicola was "categorically not" in the area of the river where police believe she fell in.

Speaking to ITV Granada Reports that day, Mr Faulding said:

"We've done very thorough searches all the way down to the weir. Police divers have dived it three times, extremely thoroughly.

"If Nicola was in that river I would have found her - I guarantee you that - and she's not in that section of the river."

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/20...y-he-did-not-find-body-in-bulley-river-search

 

[Brewnaldo]

It's surely time to file that attention seeking morons musings on a Police investigation into the bin?


How he has been given this amount of oxygen so far is utterly baffling.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

It's surely time to file that attention seeking morons musings on a Police investigation into the bin?
How he has been given this amount of oxygen so far is utterly baffling.

He was asked by the family to help so that gives him the right to comment.

He said "Our search was not in the reeds, our main focus was above the bench area" which begs the question with the amount of people searching on foot and with drones how could the body have been missed so close to where they were all searching.

 

[Brew_DD2]

He was asked by the family to help so that gives him the right to comment.

He said "Our search was not in the reeds, our main focus was above the bench area" which begs the question with the amount of people searching on foot and with drones how could the body have been missed so close to where they were all searching.

Things generally move around in the water.

 

[Leon103]

Looks like that specialist sonar search team that were so confident they said "if she was in the river they would find her" aren't as good as they made themselves out to be.

I was laughing at that *****. He was on TV yesterday and still think he was right, pointing out that she wasn't in the river but in a reed bed.

 

[Leon103]

He was asked by the family to help so that gives him the right to comment.

He said "Our search was not in the reeds, our main focus was above the bench area" which begs the question with the amount of people searching on foot and with drones how could the body have been missed so close to where they were all searching.

Body could have been under water. Water levels would have been dropping. Body floated and got stuck in reed beds. That so called expert was purely wrong and no trying to justify himself on national TV.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Things generally move around in the water.

Would a body move around in a reed bed or has she been there all along and they missed it.

 

[Brew_DD2]

Would a body move around in a reed bed or has she been there all along and they missed it.


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Either of those are possibilities.

 

[Keith 66]

A guy i know was in the marine police for many years & fished his fair share of bodies out of the water.
When people drown they sink, get rolled along the bottom & get caught on things, tree roots, rubbish, reeds anything, river beds often have deep holes on bends or scour holes near obstructions, things get stuck there & covered in weed.
As to time scale, bodies decompose & bloat with gas, In summer if its hot they can rise to the surface in a week, in winter it can take three weeks, Its as simple as that.
If the water is murky & full of silt the divers will have to search with their fingertips & its all too easy to miss anything & all too horrible when they find what they are looking for.