A DIVE expert in the search for Nicola Bulley claims there could be a third party involvement in her disappearance.
Richard Faulding said if his team cannot find the mum-of-two today, his “gut” feeling is there may be other reasons for her disappearance.
1A dive expert in the search for Nicola Bulley claims there could be a third party involvement in her disappearance.Credit: StravaThe diver’s claims centred around his suspicion of her phone – found on a bench still connected to a meeting – that he alleged could have bene placed as a “decoy”.
He told BBC Breakfast: “If Nicola is not in that stretch of river today my view is that there is a third party involved and this was a decoy placed by the river.
“It could have bene placed as a decoy there is not enough CCTV to cover particular areas here the police are working hard in the background to cover everything.
“It’s so unusual we’ve got no clear information to go on.”
He explained he had a similar incident in the search for missing Laura Torn in 2003 where a stiletto was placed to distract investigators.
Mr Faulding added: “If Nicola is in the river, she could have even fallen further up, we don’t know.
“The key focus has been around the bench area, we have got to rule out everything here.
“We can’t just go for the bench, we have got to cover the whole stretch of river to make sure there is no untoward circumstances here.”
He said the stretch of river from the bench where Nicola’s phone was found to yesterday’s search area of the river is around 200 metres to the weir, covered “extremely quickly”.
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