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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill

Police too quick to declare Nicola Bulley was in the river, expert says

Peter Faulding, left, and Paul Ansell, partner of Nicola Bulley, visit the riverside where she went missing.
Peter Faulding, left, and Paul Ansell, partner of Nicola Bulley, visit the riverside where she went missing. Photograph: PA Video/PA

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Nicola Bulley made a mistake by declaring too “early” that she was in the River Wyre, a diving and forensics expert involved in the case has claimed.

Peter Faulding, whose Specialist Internationalist Group firm searched a stretch of the river where Bulley was last seen, said Lancashire constabulary should initially have kept other lines of inquiry open for longer, as the search for the missing mother-of-two entered its 16th day.

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