Death of Nicola Bulley, Lancashire UK

It was really very very odd, and extremely unprofessional, of the water search lad to be speaking out so much in public.

Even though he was investigating privately, it is very poor form for him to be making statements like he did, while an active investigation is still ongoing.

It seemed a desperate attempt to promote his company and ‘look at me’ type stuff as opposed to any care at all for the client/ family.

Just very unprofessional IMO

The most he can say is that she’s not in the section of river that he searched (And that’s assuming his equipment and methodology is infallible). He wasn’t involved in searching the full river out to sea, he only did a limited section - whereas the Police are searching much further.

Two men went missing in Ennis the other week, within a day of each other. One body was found the following Sunday in the river in the town (by sub aqua club volunteer divers). The other was found by a member of the public washed up on a beach in the Shannon estuary near Carrigaholt 60km away on the Saturday, where no one was searching. Same river, same timeframe and conditions, 60km difference in where they were found.

It would be irresponsible to rule out the river.

The old house on the hill needs to be searched, I find it hard to believe that he family didn't look there, if the police wasn't bothered. I know I'd not be waiting for someone else to search it, I'd do it myself.

I don't know what happened to her. There's lots of speculation online about it and lots of people trying to get their five minutes of fame on TikTok.

The one thing I would say is The Police often more than they tell the public at this stage.

So crazy how people go out there thinking they're Sherlock Holmes

A run down

Sad to hear. I used to spend a lot of time by a river and always dreaded coming across a body.

For the police to announce that she defiantly fell into the river and there was no foul play before they have recovered her body struck me as very odd. Maybe just unprofessional.

I don't know how long it took for the police to issue a search of the river but you'd think they'd have done so within a couple of days of her disappearance.

Yes, but she could be buried beneath several feet of mud - which on a riverbed can be like quicksand - and therefore invisible to divers and undetectable to this so-called state of the art sonar tracing equipment. She was also dressed in heavy winter clothing which would have hampered her attempts to swim back to the bank - assuming she fell in accidentally. She could have waded in deliberately having decided to take her own life. I don't know how the police and Peter Faulding can now state that she categorically did not enter the water which is the complete opposite to what they were saying twenty four hours ago.

I feel very sorry for her family, it is everyone’s nightmare situation and her poor little kids, how do you explain that to a child. I have no idea what happened to the lady, the river doesn’t look particularly deep or dangerous where shes supposed to have gone in, but still waters run deep I guess. There’s a weir on the river further down stream so I don’t know how or if a body would go over that. I can certainly see the police’s logic, she disappeared in 10 minutes, leaving her phone there on the bench, which looks perilously close to the river. It may all be staged or it may just be the simplest explanation is what happened. We can all speculate and have our theories but we may never know the truth. I do think the police should have swept all the sheds/ buildings in the vicinity already, that just seems common sense.