Nicola Bulley’s body was found in a “perfect deposition site”, the leader of an underwater search team who helped police in their investigation has said.
Peter Faulding, whose team Specialist Group International joined police in searching the River Wyre for the mum-of-two, was keen not to spark speculation – but said it was a “possibility” her body had been placed in the river after her initial disappearance.
Police today confirmed that a body discovered in an area of reeds in the River Wyre was Ms Bulley, concluding a twenty-three day search for the 45-year-old mortgage advisor.
Asked if the body could have been placed in the river, Mr Faulding told GB News: “I don’t wanna start speculation there’s potential – it’s on a corner it’s a perfect deposition site and it’s right next to a wall. That is a possibility but I don’t wanna start speculation on that.”
He added that he had seen “no sign” of her when he searched that part of the river with his sonar team – although his equipment only covers the riverbed, not areas of bush or reeds.
Mr Faulding went on to say there was “a possibility Nicola could have been lodged somewhere else further upstream” as a possible explanation for why he had seen no sign of her, before adding, “What I do find strange is that she hasn’t gone very far I would have expected her to go further in three weeks than she did literally a few hundred yards just down the stream of the Wyre.”
Former Met Police Senior Detective Simon Harding pointed out there was “no evidence” that Ms Bulley’s body had been deposited in that spot, rather than reaching it after she fell in as per Lancashire police’s working hypothesis.
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