Police say Nicola Bulley had 'vulnerabilities' before she went missing and her case was quickly listed as 'high risk'. Officers say they will not go into the details of Nicola's vulnerabilities - but those vulnerabilities influenced their decision to list Nicola as high risk.
Detective Superintendent Rebecca Smith, the lead investigator in the Nicola Bulley case, refused to give more details of the mother-of-two’s “individual vulnerabilities”.
Referring to Ms Bulley’s partner Paul Ansell, she told a press conference: “It’s normal in any missing person investigation that you obviously gather as much information at an early stage about the person in question, which is no different and we did that with Paul.
