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Nicola Bulley diver Peter Faulding claims he found body ‘after six minutes’ as he hits back
Nicola Bulley diver Peter Faulding claims he found body ‘after six minutes’ as he hits back at criticism
In a statement on Tuesday, Mr Faulding said he and his company, Specialist Group International (SGI), arrived in St Michaels on Wyre to assist with the search for Ms Bulley on 6 February and found no sign of her in a section of the river that day.
However, the following day, police told Mr Faulding’s team to scour what the diver called the “hot zone”, which was a non-tidal area in front of the bench where Ms Bulley’s phone was found down to the weir. “From experience, if Nicola had entered the water here, this is the area where she would most likely be found,” Mr Faulding said.
Six minutes after beginning the search, at 10.34am, the diver said he spotted “a significant target that appeared, from my experience, to take human form,” which was about 75 metres downstream from the bench.
Mr Faulding said he called Lancashire Police Search Adviser to tell them of his findings in less than 20 minutes, sending an image of what he had seen and requesting that SGI divers be put in the waters “immediately” to check the area.
However, he claimed that this request to dive was refused, alleging he was told North West Underwater Search Unit (NWUSU) would conduct the dive that afternoon instead.
The NWUSU told his team “the target was found to be ‘nothing’”, he claimed. “This baffled me deeply as I am not usually wrong when I locate a target, especially a body that shows a clear signature. Sonar shadows cannot be created by ‘nothing’.”
He alleged his team “discreetly rescanned the same area, which showed the same target in the same location” at 4.30pm that day.
Mr Faulding said a request to the Lancashire Police Search Adviser to re-scan the same area of river was refused the following morning on the basis that “the target area was clear”.
In preparation for the inquest, which he said he was not invited to, he reviewed his sonar files and claimed it became clear upon enhancement of images that “the target which I had located was without a doubt Nicola”.
He said: “I had in fact found Nicola at 10.34am on 7 February 2023 after just 6 minutes of searching. The enhanced sonar file taken at 4.30pm on 7 February 2023 clearly shows Nicola’s body lying in a foetal position on her right side, legs bent.”
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/nicola-bulley-diver-peter-faulding-144313606.html
In a statement on Tuesday, Mr Faulding said he and his company, Specialist Group International (SGI), arrived in St Michaels on Wyre to assist with the search for Ms Bulley on 6 February and found no sign of her in a section of the river that day.
However, the following day, police told Mr Faulding’s team to scour what the diver called the “hot zone”, which was a non-tidal area in front of the bench where Ms Bulley’s phone was found down to the weir. “From experience, if Nicola had entered the water here, this is the area where she would most likely be found,” Mr Faulding said.
Six minutes after beginning the search, at 10.34am, the diver said he spotted “a significant target that appeared, from my experience, to take human form,” which was about 75 metres downstream from the bench.
Mr Faulding said he called Lancashire Police Search Adviser to tell them of his findings in less than 20 minutes, sending an image of what he had seen and requesting that SGI divers be put in the waters “immediately” to check the area.
However, he claimed that this request to dive was refused, alleging he was told North West Underwater Search Unit (NWUSU) would conduct the dive that afternoon instead.
The NWUSU told his team “the target was found to be ‘nothing’”, he claimed. “This baffled me deeply as I am not usually wrong when I locate a target, especially a body that shows a clear signature. Sonar shadows cannot be created by ‘nothing’.”
He alleged his team “discreetly rescanned the same area, which showed the same target in the same location” at 4.30pm that day.
Mr Faulding said a request to the Lancashire Police Search Adviser to re-scan the same area of river was refused the following morning on the basis that “the target area was clear”.
In preparation for the inquest, which he said he was not invited to, he reviewed his sonar files and claimed it became clear upon enhancement of images that “the target which I had located was without a doubt Nicola”.
He said: “I had in fact found Nicola at 10.34am on 7 February 2023 after just 6 minutes of searching. The enhanced sonar file taken at 4.30pm on 7 February 2023 clearly shows Nicola’s body lying in a foetal position on her right side, legs bent.”
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/nicola-bulley-diver-peter-faulding-144313606.html