A new documentary, called the Search For Nicola Bulley, hears from Lancashire Police and Nicola’s family.
Nicola Bulley’s partner has described the social media focus and online obsession with her disappearance as a "monster" that got out of control.
The Lancashire mother-of-two disappeared on 27 January 2023 while walking her dog in St Michael's on Wyre, shortly after dropping her daughters off at school. "That Friday, I was just sat at my desk, and I got a phone call from Paul," Louise Cunningham, Nicola’s sister tells the documentary. "And he was panicky and frantic, and he was like, 'something's happened, something strange has happened'."The documentary hears the turmoil the family went through as the search for Nicola intensified - and the impact it had on Nicola and Paul’s young children.
"And then obviously I’d have the girls. The first they’d do when they came out of school was run over and say ‘have we found mummy?" "On top of the trauma of the nightmare that we're in, to then think that all these horrendous things are being said about me towards Nicky - everyone has a limit."Days before she was found, Lancashire Police told the public Nicola had "significant issues" with alcohol brought on by her ongoing struggles with the menopause.
"Because of the commentary that was coming up on social media, Paul was just key to a lot of people's theories, and we had to negate that," says Det Supt Rebecca Smith, who played a key role in the investigation.
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