The body of a mother missing since the end of January was discovered in a river in northwest England on Sunday. “Sadly we can now confirm that we recovered Nicola Bulley from the River Wyre yesterday,” Lancashire Police confirmed in a brief press briefing on Monday.
This 45-year-old mother disappeared on January 27, near this stream, while she was walking her dog and after dropping her two little girls off at school. His phone was still connected to an online conference when he was found on a bench. Her dog had not gone into the water, some seeing it as a sign that the mother of the family could not have fallen into the river. The body was found approximately one mile from where she was last seen.
social media theories
The police had since the beginning dismissed the hypothesis of a criminal act. Beatings had given nothing, no more than searches in the river by specialized teams. In the absence of any evidence, the theories had flourished on social media, with the Nicola Bulley hashtag used nearly 1.8 million times, according to Sky News. Some had improvised amateur detectives, going to the scene, at the risk of complicating the work of the police.
It had revealed a few days ago that Nicola Bulley was considered a “vulnerable” person due to problems with alcohol, and difficulties related to premenopause. She had been criticized for spreading this information, but this announcement was apparently intended to prevent these details from being sold to the tabloid press.
In a press release, the family denounced, on Monday, the “appalling” behavior of “the press and members of the public”. “The press and members of the public accused their father [des deux petites filles] of wrongdoing, misquoted and vilified friends and family. It’s absolutely appalling, they need to be held accountable, it can’t happen to another family,” she said.
