Nicola Bulley disappearance: police find body in river

No identification yet but let’s face it, the chances of it not being her are slim.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64697300

It’s a tragedy and her family will be feeling very low right now, as they had refused to believe she fell into the river and believed she was still alive somewhere.

You would hope this would now put an end to the Tik-Tok idiots who all fancy themselves as true crime investigator podcasters but I suspect this is only going to set their brainless conspiracy theories off in a whole new direction. What a time to be alive.

[joglynne]

Sad news especially if it is Ms Bulley. So near to home. I thought that part of the river would have been checked by either the police or Peter Faulding who led a private underwater search team.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...r-disappeared/

[heero_yuy]

Of course if you're a conspiracy theorist how long has the body actually been in the river?

I guess the autopsy will answer that.

Originally Posted by joglynne

Sad news especially if it is Ms Bulley. So near to home. I thought that part of the river would have been checked by either the police or Peter Faulding who led a private underwater search team.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...r-disappeared/

The problem is the river moves, not just downstream towards the sea but also in terms of water height depending on rainfall, which also affects speed of flow. She (assuming it’s her) is about a mile downstream from where she is likely to have fallen into the water and her body is going to have moved at varying speeds, sometimes being trapped or freed by the changing height and speed of the flowing water. It would have been very difficult to find her unless the entire length of the river had been searched simultaneously, which would have been impossible. In all likelihood, when this area was searched, she wasn’t there.

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Of course if you're a conspiracy theorist how long has the body actually been in the river?

I guess the autopsy will answer that.

If she’s been kidnapped, then killed and dumped back in the river, the post-mortem will indeed reveal that. However I’d submit that the chances of anyone dumping a body in the river under such scrutiny are slim in the extreme.

[Pierre]

Well, the guy from SGM comes across as a bit of tool at this moment.

[jfman]

SGM? (Sorry I’ve not been following events that closely).

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by jfman

SGM? (Sorry I’ve not been following events that closely).

Apologies, my mistake. SGI.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/new...-b2281739.html

Still not clear on what SGI is?

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Well, the guy from SGM comes across as a bit of tool at this moment.

Originally Posted by jfman

SGM? (Sorry I’ve not been following events that closely).

The divers? Think they were call SGI though..

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Originally Posted by Chris

Still not clear on what SGI is?

They're specialist divers, they do a lot of body recovery and forensic underwater work for police forces in southern England

[jfman]

Cheers, makes sense.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Chris

Still not clear on what SGI is?

Specialist dive company that, apparently, do this kind of thing all the time.

If you’ve been following the story ( and I appreciate in Scotland it wasn’t probably a lead story) the head guy from SGI categorically stated that in no way was Nicola Bulley in the River.

He is on record and because of his insistence of this ( there’s videos and interviews, his position is well documented) it fuelled a lot, if not all, of the noise and alternative theories around this incident.

This guy said on record that there was no way, at all, that Nicola was in the river. He was on tv, criticising the police….etc. I’m sure he will go quiet. He had his 5 mins.

[jfman]

Certainly a substantial amount of egg on face for him, although I suspect there will be plenty to go round. The police and mainstream media have much to reflect upon, in addition to the armchair investigators.

I hope the coming hours and days offer a conclusion.

Originally Posted by Pierre

Specialist dive company that, apparently, do this kind of thing all the time.

If you’ve been following the story ( and I appreciate in Scotland it wasn’t probably a lead story) the head guy from SGI categorically stated that in no way was Nicola Bulley in the River.

He is on record and because of his insistence of this ( there’s videos and interviews, his position is well documented) it fuelled a lot, if not all, of the noise and alternative theories around this incident.

This guy said on record that there was no way, at all, that Nicola was in the river. He was on tv, criticising the police….etc. I’m sure he will go quiet. He had his 5 mins.

Thanks.

That being the case, I hope his stock price does take an appropriate hit. However, unless he is sufficiently professional and humble to state clearly and publicly that he got it wrong, the fact that she has now been found in the river is likely only to be grist to the mill of the conspiracy nuts. To a conspiracist, evidence that undermines their theory is evidence of a cover up and therefore evidence of the conspiracy.

BBC News at 6 and 10 is the same in Scotland as everywhere else, despite long-running attempts by Nats to force the BBC to devolve its national bulletins. . I’ve just taken a deliberate decision not to get mired in all the armchair expert bolleaux. I still remember how unpleasant things got on this forum after Madeline McCann went missing - we had our fair share of moronic armchair detectives here at the time.

[copernob]

The EXPERTS Found NO Body in that River. I Bet she was dumped in there after they switched search to the Sea.

Originally Posted by copernob

The EXPERTS Found NO Body in that River. I Bet she was dumped in there after they switched search to the Sea.

Sigh!