The disappearance of Nicola Bulley

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Nicola Bulley: Missing mother had alcohol issues, police say

The mother's problems with drinking were brought on by her struggles with the menopause, police say.
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Officers said Ms Bulley had been considered a high-risk missing person from the start of the investigation.
Lancashire Police said it was called to a concern for welfare report at her home last month.
Health professionals also attended on 10 January, the force said, adding no arrests were made but it was being investigated.
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So presumably this is sadly likely to be a suicide.

I guess the other possible explanation to look for in cases like this is murder by a spouse but if it was her kicking off and causing police to arrive then probably less likely.
 
Jokester said:
All this still doesn't really add up, partner saying she had problems with suicide alluded to, but he's adamanent she didn't end up in the river, so what is he suggesting?
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No shortage of family members who can't believe or accept that their loved one would kill themselves. They are deeply emotionally involved.

inferno said:
Bit weird how all this played out. When the husband was on tv giving interviews didn’t he think to mention she had problems with alcohol and the police have been round the house?
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Its none of our damned business that she had a problem with drink. Public get way too invested in these cases and feel like they are owed something when they aren't. They put family members on TV to try and get the story as widespread in the public as possible because maybe someone has some info they didn't realise was info, that doesn't require us to know their life story.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
Its none of our damned business that she had a problem with drink. Public get way too invested in these cases and feel like they are owed something when they aren't. They put family members on TV to try and get the story as widespread in the public as possible because maybe someone has some info they didn't realise was info.
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They also put family members on TV because often one of them has done it!
 
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rumple9 said:
Diving expert done an interview now - says if she had poor mental state she might have walked further down the river bank before going in the water, rather than falling in at the spot where the bench is
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Thats what I said above, walked off then maybe did it downstream, or maybe not in the river. Could be small woods etc up there she could have gone to. Ive been in that area briefly and iirc its fairly flat rural, but quite sparsly populated away from the coast
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Its none of our damned business that she had a problem with drink. Public get way too invested in these cases and feel like they are owed something when they aren't. They put family members on TV to try and get the story as widespread in the public as possible because maybe someone has some info they didn't realise was info.
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It's pathetic they were forced to do this, the internet detective karens should hang their heads in shame.
 
Beyond all of the media coverage and conspiracy theories, the police couldn't have fudged this up more if they tried. Got to feel sorry for the young daughters :(
 
mcast123 said:
OCUK: oh so it was an issuance scam
Me: I give up
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you are forgetting people/GenZ use social media/Bard/alexa as their objective truth news sources.

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police knew the vulnerabilities remark was going to drive speculation - but, husband must have, jointly, had a say in what terminology was used
 
TheVoice said:
Not true. It was a missing person inquiry from the outset. They evidently had information that wasn't released publicly and based their inquiry on that, not on baseless speculation.

You were criticising them earlier in the thread for not providing information that informed their working hypothesis, now they have you're criticising them anyway.
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We don't know they had secret evidence that they didn't release. If they did why not tell the family? They left everyone in the dark. Maybe they didn't have any evidence?

I'm criticising them for saying one thing and then later saying something else. Today they said she was a vulnerable person and they weren't going to go in to details. 5 hours later they went in to details.

The good thing at the press conference is they got a more senior ranked officer to front it, and another officer to go through the evidence, and to answer questions.
 
dLockers said:
What are you trying to get out of the way you are criticising this case? It doesn't really matter what the police do as you'll just whinge and moan anyway.
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It's not anti-police to question the process used in this particular case. Especially when other ex police are also questioning it.
 
mcast123 said:
It's pathetic they were forced to do this, the internet detective karens should hang their heads in shame.
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The Karens do indeed seem to be lapping this up, I hadn't even paid attention to it until I saw it trending again on Twitter and people kicking off about private medical info being released etc.

Apparently, there is a Maddie McCann Twitter account on the case:


Women do seem to love a bit of true crime drama!
 
If you look at twitter now half the female population are raging that if they get abducted while going through the menopause, the police aren't going to look for them !

The Karen's are going nuts. I dread to think what Facebook and Mumsnet are like tonight
 
I think the police force have done well here.

Stated from day 1 they BELIEVE no third party involvement - signalled that they had more information on mental health but didn’t want to disclose it.

Family are struggling clearly, perhaps from public speculation, so with liaising with family have released further information on her mental health.

The Karen’s of the world are utter idiots.

Well done Lancashire Police.
 
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