The former Police and Crime Commissioner who used to be in charge of Northumbria Police has said the Lancashire Constabulary team searching for Nicola Bulley had made a "sexist" error by making public her struggles with alcohol and the menopause.
Dame Vera Baird - who stepped down as the Government's Victim's Commissioner in 2022 - was previously Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) overseeing Northumbria Police from 2012 to 2019. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, she said she felt disclosing Nicola Bulley's vulnerabilities was a "dreadful error".
She also shared fears that it will stop people making complaints in the future, and said she wondered if such details would have been released if she was a man. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has also demanded an “explanation” from the force about why it disclosed those details on Wednesday, a source revealed.
