Nicola Bulley 45y Old mum of 2 little girls missing from River Wyre area since last Friday morning at 9:15am walking her dog, Willow.

A different method of searching a river , suicide or accident the result the same, a river has two banks and a bed how can there be different methods of searching.

do we have any evidence he lied about her mental state to the police? surely that is confidential?

Janejudge we do know he missed out the truth on the documentary he took part in as he was saying quite catergically how happy she was and they were as a couple, planning on getting married and not a word about any problems she may have had I can understand why but maybe it would have been helpful to say she was having a tough time he didn’t need to go into details
It’s a fine line isn’t it

There is Anniebach for a good swimmer to drown in a fairly still river ( they said it wasn’t very moving at the time she disappeared) so she would have needed to weight her body
she was a strong swimmer it’s really hard to drown if you are a strong swimmer in calm water
The divers didn’t come in for two weeks by which time her body could have been covered in mud/weeds and not drifting downstream or to the surface as they were looking for

If the diver would have searched differently for a suspected suicide, he should have asked the family if that was a possibility. They employed him, the police didn’t. He should have explained the difference - if there is one - in search methods to them and the onus was on him to ask the question. I believe police divers searched very early on, he wasn’t the only one.

As she may have been in the river for two weeks surely an expert would look for a body covered in weeds .

This man runs a business, he doesn’t need bad publicity.

The diving team were ‘let go’ before that information came out though Annie and every link I saw they were following the river towards the sea I really know no more than you or anybody else it’s all a big old mystery
I m sorry to say I don’t think she will be found alive but until there is a body there is hope and that poor family need hope

I, like everyone else, feel very sorry for Nicola's family, but it does seems strange that in a country where thousands of people disappear every year, one of them is so highlighted by the media whilst so many others are just ignored.

I absolutely agree Varian. It must be difficult for families of other missing people to see their loved ones being ignored when so much attention is given to just one.

I always felt very sorry for the mother of little Ben who went missing on a Greek island. She returned each year but couldn’t afford the massive publicity that Madeleine McCann’s parents could.

I was talking to dd about this. She couldn’t understand why the dog was sat quietly. She has spaniels and said if Nicola had fallen in the water a spaniel would likely jump in after her or make a huge fuss. She is off the opinion either Nicola herself or someone the dog knew told the dog to stay. Which means either Nicola ran off or someone both she and the dog knew took her away.

I don’t think it was sitting quietly, it was running backwards and forwards.

It hadn’t tried to jump in the water after her though and it wasn’t barking. Just saying what dd thought from her experience with spaniels.

That’s the one thought that occurred to me.

Hearing the dog was running backwards and forwards has always made me wonder if Nicola had gone through the nearby gate and the dog had found the gate closed & been unable to follow, knowing she should be with me.

This is the sort of confused behaviour I would expect if my dog had found herself separated from me on a familiar routine walk.

Sorry, I meant to say knowing she should have been with her owner.

I'm wondering if Nicola did go in the river and took the harness off to prevent the dog being caught up on branches or weeds if it jumped in after her.

Otherwise why take it off?

The harness has puzzled me. I unfasten the lead from the harness on a walk but I don’t remove the harness. They are a fag to put back on.

I think going through the gate and leaving the dog the other side was what I also though Delila which would also take her upstream and I m not sure if the divers went upstream maybe they did but all the shots I saw they were going down stream

Apparently someone who is a Tik Tokker has been digging near the bench I presume in the last few days has he has posted and on his account , surely this shouldn't be allowed and could be considered " tampering with evidence " if any thing was found. What is the point of digging an area that doesn't look as if it has been dug already nobody can leave land looking pristine after it has been cut especially a muddy river bank.? It is the top story on DM online. This case is getting stranger and stranger with every new release.

Maybe she didn’t want the dog to see her going into the water. People who are sufficiently rational plan well ahead in great detail, as I know from personal experience.

I would take the harness off if my dog was going in the water so the harness didn’t get wet and dirty. Maybe Nicola was about to let the dog in the water and then something happened.

Here is just one appeal for another missing person

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/18/mackenzie-crook-help-find-missing-sister-in-law-laurel-aldridge

The diver said if she had gone further down and jumped from a height she would have moved in a different way from a simple accidental slip.

Maybe Nicola or someone else didn’t want the dog to go through the gate with her/them? That would have left a very fretful dog behind, running between the gate and the bench possibly.

I’ve read several reports saying Nicola always removed the dogs harness when it was off lead. I’ve only used a harness when training a young dog on a long line. My spaniel and more recently the big powerful lab were both encouraged to retrieve from water, wearing their harness. I don’t know anyone who uses a harness who’d take it off for off lead or water play but it s reported Nicola did

25Avalon, teaching a solid stay takes considerable input. Only a very well trained dog would maintain a stay in open countryside with its owner out of sight. Reports are this dog wasn’t in a stay, it was distressed and moving between the bench and the gate. It’s all very difficult to make sense of.

Fleurpepper

Honestly at this stage I truly think we should stop speculating. It is serving no purpose. We should all wait imho, and hope.

So many days on, and so many pages, and it is more true than ever.