A former police officer has said that “local knowledge” from armchair detectives is key to solving crimes but there has been “toxic” interest in the Nicola Bulley disappearance.
Martyn Underhill worked on the Sarah Payne case in 2000 as well as dozens of other murders and now lecturing on investigation techniques. He says that you “cannot beat local knowledge” in the hunt for a missing person.
Mortgage adviser and mum Nicola, 45, disappeared on January 27 while walking her brown spaniel Willow along the River Wyre in the tight-knit village of St Michaels on Wyre in Lancashire.
