Important to review Nicola Bulley case, says PCC

A police boss said it was important to review a force's handling of the Nicola Bulley case to understand how the narrative got so "out of control".

The disappearance of the mother-of-two sparked a major search operation but it also attracted dozens of amateur social media sleuths to travel to the area.

Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner Andrew Snowden has ordered a review of the police investigation.

He said he hoped "lessons can be learned" from the "tragic case".

Ms Bulley, 45, disappeared while walking her dog by the river in St Michael's on Wyre after dropping off her daughters, aged six and nine, at school.

A major search operation got under way but it was 23 days before her body was found in the river one mile away from where she was last seen.

"We are bringing in the College of Policing to look at [the case] and provide that assurance for the public about how, on a case where the police theory around what had happened had been proven to be correct all the way along, did the narrative go so national and international and get out of control?

"How did the police lose control of that narrative around what was actually happening on the ground":[]}