Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas plans to launch a fresh investigation into Nicola Bulley's death after receiving critical new information, according to Mark Williams-Thomas. Nicola Bulley vanished on January 27, 2023, while walking her dog along the River Wyre in Lancashire after dropping her daughters off at school, multiple reports indicate. Her body was found in the river after 23 days of searches, multiple reports indicate.
The nature of the new information and what specific actions Williams-Thomas will undertake in his probe remain unclear. An investigation concluded Nicola Bulley died from drowning, and an inquest confirmed her death was accidental with no evidence of third-party involvement, multiple reports indicate. Paul Ansell, Nicola Bulley's partner, became the subject of media attention and online conspiracy theories after her disappearance, multiple reports indicate.
It was the 27th January, 2023, and Nikki left for school with the girls, and never came home. I became a subject with the media, in the sense of, 'where's the partner? Why's he not talking?' sort of thing.
He described the online scrutiny as very intrusive and a horrible experience, according to Paul Ansell. Police accused TikTokers of playing private detectives and inundating them with false information during the search, according to police.
I got out of the car, and I don't think I knew what I was doing, really. I got out of the car, then I got collared by Sky, and the next minute, I was doing this interview. But then of course you're, you know, psychoanalysed, analysed. Your eyes aren't right, you're smirking. It wasn't the papers or the news. It was more TikTok.
It's very, very intrusive, which was a horrible thing to experience on its own, let alone when you're experiencing everything that we were. It can engulf you.
They don't know me, they don't know us, they don't know Nikki. They know nothing about us. Just messages like 'you b******'. 'We know what you did'. 'You know you can't hide Paul', that kind of stuff.
It wasn't a huge part of our lives. But yeah, when you experience something like this, you realise what a huge monster it can be, I guess.