An expert diver who helped in the search for Nicola Bulley has said that he is "baffled" by the location of where the body was found.
On Monday Lancashire Police confirmed the body recovered from the River Wyre on Sunday belonged to the 45-year-old mum of two.
Previously, forensic dive expert Peter Faulding said that Nicola was not in the river having searched for her there. At the time he said: "If Nicola was in that river, I would have found her. She’s not there." He also denied that he had given the family false hope.
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Faulding had joined in the search for the mortgage adviser 10 days after Nicola’s disappearance, spending three days searching the river.
Faulding, who is CEO of Search Group International (SGI) told Express.co.uk: "This is a baffling case. The most baffling aspect is at the bottom of the bank there was only two feet of water on the day Nicola went missing.
"She would have landed on rocks if she had slipped in. The current was not heavy enough to take her over the weir. A lot of people agree on that."
He added that searching tidal rivers are difficult and that what happened to Nicola "is still a mystery".
Faulding also called for the "speculation" around what happened to Nicola to stop so the family "can be left to grieve".
These comments come after he spoke to various outlets on Monday where he expressed that he did not wish to be the "fall guy" in what happened.
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