Nicola Bulley specialist diver clashed with police over search in river
dailyrecord.co.ukA specialist diver has defended himself after he was accused of causing 'false alarm' during the search for missing Nicola Bulley.The mum and businesswoman vanished in January 2023 after she had dropped her children at school and taken her dog for a walk.
Her disappearance garnered intense media attention. And led to internet sleuths descending on the village of St Michael's on Wyre, in Lancashire to try to help find her but ended up disrupting the hunt to find her.Bulley's body was tragically discovered more than three weeks later in the River Wyre, just one mile downstream from where she had been believed to have gone missing, where her phone had been found on a bench and her dog abandoned.
The search took more than 23 days, with specialist police divers, sniffer dogs, drones and helicopters all deployed. Her death at the age of 45 was ruled an accidental drowning, The Mirror reports.A BBC documentary that aired tonight on BBC One shone a light on the original search missing.
Specialist diver Peter Faulding came under fire in November 2023 when a review into the handling of the search for Ms Bulley implied he had "caused unwarranted distress and false alarm" to her family.A 143-page report following the review, commissioned by the Lancashire police and crime commissioner, Andrew Snowden, suggested Faulding had contributed to public confusion over Bulley's disappearance and the search relating to her.
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