Forensic expert in Nicola Bulley case blasts police update that 'changes everything'

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missing mum Nicola Bulley has slammed police after a new update which he says changes everything. Peter Faulding, the founder of Specialist Group International, raged that if he'd been privy to information released by police tonight (Wednesday, February 15) he would have "changed his whole search strategy".Nicola went missing on January 27 during a riverside dog walk in St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire.READ MORE: Missing mum Nicola Bulley was visited by police 17 days before her disappearanceThe police's "main working hypothesis" remains that she went into the River Wyre.Tonight, Lancashire Police released a statement revealing they visited Nicola's home just 17 days before she went missing following a "report of concern for welfare".The visit came "as a result" of "significant issues with alcohol which were brought on by her ongoing struggles with the menopause", police said.

The revelation came after an earlier press conference that revealed Nicola was considered a high-risk missing person from the start because of a "number of specific vulnerabilities".Mr Faulding - who called off his team's search for Nicola last week - told Talk TV this evening: "If I'd known this information on day one...

I would have changed my whole search strategy. "I assumed that Nicola had slipped into the river and it's only 2ft-deep at the bottom of the bank, and that's why I've been so adamant that she's not in that part of the river - we thoroughly searched it. "If she had jumped in...

that would change my whole plan. She could have ended up in the sea. "But everything, it's changed this - and it's really annoyed me."He added: "It's awful.