Missing woman Nicola Bulley - inquest (P 158)

But also somebody slipping/falling into water doesn't make them a missing person does it? You're confusing the two things. Nicola was reported as missing.

I'm not. She was and would have continued to be classed as a missing person until she was found. At that time they didn't know she had slipped/fell into the water it was just their strong belief she had, hence the search.
 
Deep breath. The police and only the police were privy to that information and as a result of that they graded her high risk and rightly so. That bit isn't in doubt. Nobody else knew that information they kept it private. She wasn't graded high risk because they believed she was in the water, the fact she was considered high risk led them to believe she was in the water.

The expert with the specialist equipment didn't know she was a high risk person and as a result that changed how he searched the river.
Without knowing everything Lancs knew-if a person is reported missing; their dog and phone are found near the water; a check of police systems show police attended a welfare/mental health job a short time before…she’s graded high risk.
If she’d been reported missing in for example a shopping arcade with the same information re her mental state, she may have been graded medium risk.

It’s really semantics, we aren’t privy to everything. I can only speak from decades of experience. I can also seriously question how Faulding wasn’t aware she was high risk. He sounds like he was simply covering his arse after over promising.
 
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I notice people online are already using the fact that Nicola wasn't found earlier to back track on the fact that the police were right in focusing on the river. I have absolutely no experience in what must be a horrible and difficult job so it seems obvious to me not to judge people who do it. Thanks for confirming that it isn't easy and I assume nothing is a sure thing when dealing with events like this.

I'm still wondering how the Thousands of folk including posters on here who stated, There's absolutely no way the dog would not go in after her, it's a certainty it would and he'd of been wet. Another myth put to bed.
 
I'm still wondering how the Thousands of folk including posters on here who stated, There's absolutely no way the dog would not go in after her, it's a certainty it would and he'd of been wet. Another myth put to bed.
Hopefully all the armature Vera's will now be satisfied and stop being weird.
 
Apologies if I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you are saying if she's in the water and high risk, then she is still alive in the water

No not at all. The high risk factor only comes into play due to how the search of the river was conducted as I've said countless times. Also if the police would have said from the onset they classed her as a high risk person and based on that information it was their belief she was in the river, it would have probably played down a lot of the speculation.
 
No not at all. The high risk factor only comes into play due to how the search of the river was conducted as I've said countless times. Also if the police would have said from the onset they classed her as a high risk person and based on that information it was their belief she was in the river, it would have probably played down a lot of the speculation.
The police said v early that their belief was she was in the water. Clearly she wasn’t wearing arm bands. The risk grading is for police-by implication part of that process is often a media campaign to seek information.
 

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