The forensic expert who led the river search for missing Nicola Bulley has said there is “no evidence to rule anything out” in the disappearance of the mother.
Peter Faulding, the chief executive of Specialist Group International, said that it was “crazy” police have not considered other reasons other than drowning.
He explained: “The police divers who are highly professional, searched the river thoroughly that day, thoroughly all the way down that strip, and from all my experience of looking at cases like this, we find people where they go down.
“And that's a fact. They don't drift unless it's a really, really heavily flooded river when they move down. But it was not at the time and that was confirmed by the family.
Chief executive of Specialist Group International, Peter Faulding.
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“I don't think there's any evidence to rule anything out. I mean, I've already been very blunt with [Nicola’s partner] Paul, and I've spent a lot of time with Paul and just said to them, we've got to potentially be prepared for the worst here.”
In an interview with Patrick Christys, he continued: “We're too woke on a lot of things. Now we've just got to say it as it is.
“And I've said to him, we could be looking for a body. We could be looking for a deposition site here.
“She could have been kidnapped. She could have been held against her will and this is what needs to be really well looked at.
“There's a lot of work going on behind the scenes.”
He added: “I’m not here to beat the police. I work with them all the time.
“They do a great job and they thought right and good, but I think on this particular inquiry, the media aren’t being told, the public's not being told, they need to get a grip of their PR.”
It comes as Nicola’s neighbour has questioned her disappearance.
Charlotte Drake joined Eamonn Holmes and Saira Khan on GB News.
Nicola Bulley's neighbour, Charlotte Drake.
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She said: “We've said it from day one, we've all done that walk, we all walk that river, we're all mums, we all do the drop off.
“We all don't think that we will go and do a walk like that and not come back.
“It's really really hit all mums, all women I would say in the area that do that, because we've all done it and we've all managed to not fall in, we know the terrain.
“It's really unnerved people, especially with the lack of evidence. The thing that's eaten away at all of us on the street is it just doesn't feel right.
“It doesn't feel right that she would be in the water and we've said that from day one but obviously there's no evidence for any of the avenues of questioning.
“Where are her keys, where were all these different things of hers. How can you just vanish into thin air? It seems impossible and yet here we are.”