Nicola Bulley – latest news: Police recover ‘stained glove’ from field near where dog-walker vanished

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of sending malicious messages about Nicola Bulley’s disappearance.

Lancashire Police said they received reports over the weekend of messages being sent to Wyre Council members.

A 49-year-old man from Manchester and a 20-year-old woman from Oldham have been arrested on suspicion of malicious communications offences.

Yellow ribbons and heart-shaped paper notes adorned with messages of hope and goodwill have been attached to the footbridge in the village of St Michael’s on Wyre.

On Tuesday, neighbor and friend Charlotte Drake tied her own message to the railing as the police search for missing Nicola Bulley continues.

Nicola Bulley’s partner has reportedly expressed dissatisfaction with the progress of her search, a forensic search specialist involved in the case claimed.

Paul Ansell, 44, also urged authorities to hold a joint press conference last week but was “absolutely appalled” when they didn’t respond to his request, Mail Online reported.

“He has a relationship with the police family liaison officers but I think he’s struggling to get the answers he wants,” forensic expert Peter Faulding was quoted as saying by the Mail Online.

“He has a connection with them, but I think there’s a problem. He vented his frustration to the family liaison officers in front of me last week when I was there.”

“Paul is just lost, really. He doesn’t have a partner, the kids miss their mother and he’s completely in pieces.”

Officers searching for 45-year-old Nicola Bulley were handed a “stained glove” from the field where she was last seen in January.

Authorities took the blue ski glove from the scene while continuing their search for the missing mother-of-two, they reported The Telegraph.

Investigators have reiterated that the line of inquiry into her disappearance has not changed since the glove was discovered, the outlet reported.

The hikers found the glove about seven miles from the bank where her cellphone was found.

Missing Nicola Bulley would only have ended up in “waist-deep” water if she slipped and fell into the river – unless she was pushed, a forensic search expert has claimed.

“If she slid down the embankment, she wouldn’t get far,” he said. “The rocks would hold her in place and she would only have been waist deep. She could have stood there and asked for help because people are walking by.”

my colleague Liam James Reports:

A reminder below of the timeline before Mrs. Bulley disappeared.

8:43 a.m. – Nicola walked the path by the River Wyre after taking her children to school

8:50 a.m. (approximately) – A dog walker – someone who knows Nicola – spotted her walking her dog on the lower field. Their two dogs interacted briefly before the witness left the field across the river path

8:53 a.m. – She emailed her boss

9.01 a.m. – She signed in to a Teams call

9:10 a.m. (approx) – A witness – someone who knows Nicola – saw her in the upper field with Willow. Work is underway to pinpoint exactly what time this was.

9.30 a.m. – The Teams call ended, but Nicola stayed logged in

9:35 a.m. (approx) – Nicolas Handy and Willow were found on a river bank by another dog walker.

Police are to hold a press conference on the ongoing search for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley in a bid to combat disinformation surrounding her disappearance.

The briefing comes as speculation about what may have happened to her has continued to mount in the 19 days since her disappearance.

Ms Bulley disappeared while walking her springer spaniel Willow in the village of St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire, after dropping her two daughters, aged six and nine, at school on January 27.

Police have ordered changes to the way they communicate with the public in the Nicola Bulley case in a bid to stop vigilante searches.

Former Detective Chief Inspector Simon Harding told Sky News that police should try to “put other people at ease and stop people from going to that scene and taking things into their own hands”.

“That can hinder a lot. It really can.

He added: “There are police divers … who are experts themselves – they don’t necessarily need other people.

“But now you come out and say, ‘We did this, we did this CCTV, we did this research’ to stop people.

“It’s the messaging, that’s the problem for me.”

Nicola Bulley Parish Council has been forced to take steps to protect its members after receiving some ‘vile’ phone calls over the disappearance of the mother-of-two (Andy Gregory reports).

Wyre Council has now been forced to remove contact details of councilors in Ms Bulley’s local community of Inskip with Sowerby from its website after some received a spate of late-night phone calls.

Five of the six council members received calls between 12:45 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. Saturday, with all but one simply hanging up when they answered, a council source said The mirror.

This was announced by Lancashire Police The Independent that they were investigating the matter, with a copy of an “insulting” voicemail referring to the missing dog walker being handed over to police.

Lancashire Police are said to have contacted a fishing club yesterday to ask who was allowed to fish in the river on the day of the disappearance.

A local fisherman tells Email online: “It sounds like they were trying to find out if anyone was fishing the river that day and saw something, but no one was.”

He said police contacted the fishermen on the first day of the disappearance, but only to ask how deep the water was where she went missing.

Emphasizing that there were no fishermen there on January 27, the angler added, “The only people out on the river that day were dog walkers. I can guarantee you that.”