Some good points Delfino, especially your final one.A few initial things from the report
- The police should have secured the area and not assumed this wasn't a crime.
- The police should have treated it as a critical incident
- Peter Faulding should have been NDAd
- They shouldn't have realised Nicola's medical details but briefed the media in a private session
- They should have handled communications better
- The actual investigation itself was very good.
The report covers the scenario where the police felt they had to release her details but says had they privately briefed the media, it wouldn't have come to that.Some good points Delfino, especially your final one.
I have a feeling part of the reason her medical details were released were to deflect the attention somewhat off her partner, which it did.
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Post removed.You are "assuming" about something you do not know anything about.
You do not know anything about her life or her alcohol intake on that morning, or any morning.
Not a great thread...
My wife, who works for the ambulance service, told me you can drown very quickly from cold water shock & not have to inhale much water for it to happen.Purely from memory I think the implication from the Inquest was that she could have slipped head first into the water, and inhaled a lot of cold water very quickly, which might have led to her sudden drowning?
Might account for the screams, and no suggestion of suicide as I recall?
I don’t know enough to comment on how that stacks up medically, and how she might have entered the water in that manner, and I haven’t been by that bit of river for about 40 years so I don’t know how feasible that explanation is at that site?
I do struggle to account for the fact that for all that searching she wasn’t found for three weeks given the apparently fairly calm state of the river at that time?
As for the bizarre way in which she eventually was found then my mind just ‘boggles’ !
The whole incident was very strange from start to finish.
That's disgusting, what a scum bag
It's fairly remote and it was cold at the time. Plenty of people have heart attacks with the shock of the cold water.Said at the time and I’ll say it again for the record.
I’m still not convinced how a young perfectly healthy woman fell into a very small slow flowing river and couldn’t get out and indeed no one heard her shouts/screams for help and her dog never moved from her supposed point of entry.
I’m not suggesting any foul play or indeed anything else suspicious but I just don’t get she couldn't get out of the river or at the very least someone never heard/saw her in distress.