Nicola Bulley - Peter Faulding..A must watch.

if you think i'm going to watch something that lasts over 48 minutes...

forget it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12774663/nicola-bulley-report-diving-expert-peter-faulding-claims-body-six-minutes.html

cant believe i missed this article in Nov.

can ewe highlight where im blaming him?

can ewe highlight where im blaming him?

Without watching clip i've criticized Faulding all along , was i wrong ?

Search expert Peter Faulding today doubled down on claims he found Nicola Bulley's body 'after just six minutes' of looking only to be told by police it was 'nothing' - as he hit back against criticism of him in an official report.

The College of Policing report said Lancashire Police felt some of Mr Faulding's behaviour and activities 'caused challenges to the investigation' and the family. He is no longer on the list of the National Crime Agency’s independent advisers, the College's CEO, Andy Marsh, told a press conference today.

A key disagreement between the underwater search specialist and Lancashire Police concerns whether he found Ms Bulley's body on February 7 - a full 12 days before it was eventually located by a member of the public.

Mr Faulding told the review team his sonar imaging had produced a 'credible find' in the river on February 7 and accused police of lacking 'professional interest'. But police divers said they examined the 'find' and discovered it was merely 'tree branches'.

Today, Mr Faulding - who was asked to help in the search by a friend of Ms Bulley's family - insisted he had proof that he had really found her body and complained of not being given the chance to share it at her inquest.
Peter Faulding's Specialist Group International (SGI) joined the search for Nicola Bulley

Peter Faulding's Specialist Group International (SGI) joined the search for Nicola Bulley
Ms Bulley was last seen on the morning of Friday January 27 when she was spotted walking her dog

Ms Bulley was last seen on the morning of Friday January 27 when she was spotted walking her dog
Mr Faulding, 60, scoured the River Wyre for three days after the mother of two vanished on January 27 (pictured on February 7)

Mr Faulding, 60, scoured the River Wyre for three days after the mother of two vanished on January 27 (pictured on February 7)
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Describing the morning of February 7, Mr Faulding said: 'My team and I commenced the search at 10.28am and 6 minutes later, at 10.34am, I identified a significant target that appeared, from my experience, to take human form.

'This target was approximately 75 metres downstream from the bench, just south of the island in the river. At 10.53am, I notified the Lancashire Police Search Adviser of my findings by telephone. I also sent an image of the target on WhatsApp and requested that we put our SGI divers in the water immediately to check the area.

'My request to dive the target was refused and I was told that the North West Underwater Search Unit (NWUSU) would conduct the dive that afternoon. Later, the NWUSU advised us that the target was found to be ''nothing''.'
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Mr Faulding said he concluded that 'maybe I was wrong', leading to him later telling the media he did not think Ms Bulley's body was in the river. But he claims to have later changed his mind following a review of the evidence he had collected.

'I revisited, analysed and enhanced every sonar file recorded during my two-day search and particularly from February 7. It became clear when enhancing the images with the sonar software tools that the target which I had located was without a doubt Nicola,' he said.

'I had in fact found Nicola at 10.34am on 7th February 2023 after just 6 minutes of searching. I would have presented my findings and evidence at the Coroner's Inquest, however, I was not invited to it.'

Mr Faulding was asked to help by a friend of Ms Bulley's family after giving interviews on February 5 branding the police investigation to date as a 'mess' and saying he was confident her body was not in the river.

His claim to have found Ms Bulley's body on February 7 has been rejected by police divers.

The review team said police divers – who under the agreement with SGI would recover any suspected human remains – had examined the so-called 'find' which had turned out to be 'tree branches underwater'.

The diver in question told the review they were '100% sure that there was no body in that part of the water at that time'.

'It is not very often I dive in such an unobstructed body of water with such a flat bottom and with visibility,' they added.



laura richards has now said in her youtube video that faulding showed her the images and she states the image is clearly that of a body on the river bed in a foetal position.

it seems the  lancashire police obv didnt want someone drafted in my the bulleys friends to get the credit.

If he had found something with his equipment his divers would of investigated at the time, we will never know what really happened.