A forensic expert has said he would “look into” Nicola Bulley’s phone as he claims it could have been left as a “decoy”. Peter Faulding, a world renowned forensic search specialist, said he would look into the evidence left on the bench as well as search the river bed using specialist equipment to determine whether Nicola had entered the river.
Speaking on Sky News, Mr Faulding said: “Normally when we scan a river, we can scan about 10 miles a day. This is not really a fast moving tidal it’s quite slow and quite narrow so quite straightforward to search. The police divers are doing a great job but they can only search a small section at a time.
“But I believe from the news reports that sonar has been brought in but sonar is only as good as the operator using it and the frequency.
“I would be looking at the evidence we’ve got. I’ve worked on cases where there was a shoe left on the river and it was left as a decoy.
“We don’t know if this [the phone] has been left by a third party or Nicola as a decoy to drag all the resources down to the river edge. I’d be looking at how that’s got there in the first place. I would run our sonar along the river and I would see every part of that river and you could quickly confirm or deny any anomalies in that river.”
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