The missing woman?

[mickd1961]

At first I did think that it was all a bit strange and didn’t really add up. However, I now feel that unfortunately she probably has drowned and that she has been swept downstream towards the estuary. Hopefully, I’m wrong and she will be found alive but it isn’t looking good.

It was only two feet deep at the edge where she fell in and there were rocks she could easily have stood on according to the expert who scanned the area this week.

The would surely be a hat or a boot or a scarf or something floating around off her person by now!?

Somebody has come up to her with a knife abs made her put her phone down because they are forensically aware of how police trace the signal.

This whole thing stinks.

If you fall into water you are going to at the very least scream for help and your dog would be going yampy.

They should’ve brought tracker dogs immediately to that site, it would have them been clear as to whether she had been right down to the waters edge or not.

The female inspector in charge of the case is one of the least inspiring and most inept police officer I’ve seen in many a year.

Seriously out of her depth.......unlike Nicola Bulley!

[WBA123]

Something does seem off with this case. But either one of two things have happened, she's either fallen into the river or she's been abducted. It seems strange the police are so adamant she's fallen into the river, because if its the other option then they are wasting valuable time searching for her by coming to that conclusion.

I also think in cases like this, the police hold back certain things and don't always give the full facts to the public. Because they think it might put her in more danger or there is a suspect they want to watch more closely. Either way, its a mystery and I do hope she's found safe and well, somewhere and somehow.

[Omegstrat6]

Latest news is something around a couple of people who have reported seeing a "tatty" red van in the area at the time that they felt a bit suspicious. Could be something or nothing but the drowning theory seems unlikely to me based on reports.

[mickd1961]

Latest news is something around a couple of people who have reported seeing a "tatty" red van in the area at the time that they felt a bit suspicious. Could be something or nothing but the drowning theory seems unlikely to me based on reports.

Normally it’s a tatty white transit used for kidnappings so at least this should be easier for the idiot plod to track down.

[DaveP67 is back!]

At first I did think that it was all a bit strange and didn’t really add up. However, I now feel that unfortunately she probably has drowned and that she has been swept downstream towards the estuary. Hopefully, I’m wrong and she will be found alive but it isn’t looking good.

She would have had to float quite a long way and over a weir first, unlikely imo.

[mickd1961]

She would have had to float quite a long way and over a weir first, unlikely imo.

It’s hard to come out of a weir even if you’re alive Dave.

You’d expect her to have got trapped in the vortex caused by the water flow.

She’s been kidnapped and will be dead by now.

Good old British police.......this force must be twinned with the lot that investigated Madeline McCann!

[wbaliquidator]

I don’t buy the fell in the river explanation either – lazy policing.

Interesting how the dog was still near the bench. If she was abducted then I would expect the dog to follow her/them.

[phild]

I don’t buy the fell in the river explanation either – lazy policing.

Interesting how the dog was still near the bench. If she was abducted then I would expect the dog to follow her/them.

Wasnt the dog tied to the bench whilst she was on a business call?

[mickd1961]

Police now looking for footage of two men acting suspiciously in the area she went missing on the day previously.

Top ex coppers going public and saying how inept the investigation has been from the start and totally incredulous that the bench wasn’t sealed off and carted away and that no boundary was set up!

Just the points I and many others have been making about this fiasco from the start, if most of us can see it then why can’t the police!?

I think a lot of the problem with our police is the same as we see with football refs and with VAR.

Thousands or millions of people watch something and pretty much all agree and then a ref or VAR goes completely against the obvious.

I think it’s a mixture of power and arrogance flavoured with a dose of ineptitude........a case of “we are the experts not you” come into play.

What I don’t understand is how come the Police Commissioner doesn’t grab this by the b o l l o c k s and not only rip into Lancashire’s totally inept female Chief Constable along with seconding specialist detectives to travel to Lancashire to manage and help this situation.

Nicola is very probably dead by now but if she isn’t, she’s going to be going through the worst type of Hell any woman could face if two animals have got got her imprisoned somewhere.

The pathetic nature of this investigation has really made my p I s s boil, I thought her partner was incredibly restrained during the Channel 5 documentary on Friday night......if that had been me in his shoes I couldn’t have kept the lid on my feelings about how this has been handled.

[BaggieSingh]

Dog wasn’t tied to anything he was out of his harness and lead the first witness tied him die die to having an appointment

A few strange things going on
I’d go with what the fiver bloke says and assume she’s not in the water

The phone could be a decoy, I think someone has abducted her
I feel so sorry for her family and friends
But I do wonder if all this would have happened had it been a lady with a bit more melanin in her or somewhere else in the country not quite as middle class