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This is the moment TikTok detectives found a ‘stained’ glove handed over to police searching for missing Nicola Bulley, ahead of a press conference updating the search for the mother-of-two.
The dark gray garment was found on February 7 in a field near the River Wyre, where Mrs Bulley was walking her dog Willow.
Images obtained exclusively by MailOnline show the chilling moment in which he was located, with the cameraman opining “There seems to be blood on him.”
They reveal that they are going to alert the police, before adding “There are definitely some stains, guys.”
Doorbell footage released by Lancashire Police from the day the mortgage adviser disappeared on January 27 seemed to suggest he was not wearing gloves at the time, but may have put them on later.
Today is the 19th day of the search for Mrs Bulley, who disappeared shortly after 9:20am at St Michael’s on the Wyre beauty spot.
Her two children and her long-term partner, Paul Ansell, have been tormented by the lack of answers about where she might be.
Nicola Bulley, 45-year-old mother of two, has been missing for 19 days from her home in Inskip
Mounted Police at Knott End-on-Sea are pictured Monday as they take part in the search for missing Nicola Bulley.
Police have consistently said they believe it fell into the river, despite pressure from family and friends who suggest it may have been taken.
Assistant Police Chief Peter Lawson along with Senior Investigating Officer Detective Superintendent Rebecca Smith will hold a press conference today.
He is expected to update the public on the search for Nicola after days of radio silence from the force. They declined to comment to MailOnline about the glove this morning.
The TikTok detectives who descended on the scene had previously thwarted officers, who at one point issued a 48-hour dispersal notice to clear the area.
Ansell urged investigators to broaden their search for his partner and asked for answers to key questions in the case.
Nicola Bulley and her partner Paul Ansell planned to get married soon
It comes as it was claimed last night that police waited two weeks to ask local fishermen if they had seen anything unusual on the morning of her disappearance.
He is also said to have been “appalled” after the police failed to respond to his request to hold a joint press conference last week.
Ansell confided in his frustrations to forensic expert Peter Faulding, who is supporting the family. Mr Faulding told the Mail: “He has a relationship with the police family liaison officers, but I think he is struggling to get the answers he wants.”
You have a line of communication with them, but I think there’s a problem.
‘He took his frustrations out on the family liaison officers last week on me when I was there. He said: ‘Why can’t you go and look for buildings in the town?’ They said they can’t because they need a search warrant. He said, ‘Well, you could ask them.’ The people would happily let them in, the whole town is after him.
‘There is a feeling that there is just a lack of imagination and willpower. I don’t want to criticize the police, but really I’m just expressing your thoughts.
Police have not held a press conference for seven days and issued a final statement on the case on February 10.
But in fresh concerns about the early days of the investigation, local fishermen say police only contacted them to ask if they saw anything on the morning of Ms Bulley’s disappearance yesterday, more than two weeks after she your demise. The times reports.
It comes after experienced detectives previously raised concerns about the area where his phone and dog harness were found not cordoned off at the start of the investigation.
But Ansell is concerned that the force’s communication strategy could cause the search for Bulley to lose momentum.
Mr Faulding explained on Tuesday: ‘Paul has said it’s the media that keep this going. The media is doing a good job of keeping this in the public domain.
He also revealed that Ansell was “appalled” after police ignored his requests to compile a joint statement.
‘He suggested that to them and didn’t even get a response. He wanted someone older in front of the cameras at the scene, but it never happened.
“I was absolutely horrified when we never got a response.”
Charlotte Drake, the next door neighbor and friend of Nicola Bulley, ties a yellow ribbon with a message of hope written on a bridge over the River Wyre on Tuesday.
A yellow ribbon with a message of hope written on it tied to a bridge over the River Wyre at St Michael’s on Wyre on Tuesday.
He said: ‘Paul is just lost, really. He doesn’t have a partner, the children miss his mother… he’s in pieces. Absolutely to pieces.
He just wants to know where Nicola is.
Police were seen searching the river again this week and Mrs Bulley’s sister, Louise Cunningham, visited the bank where Nicola is feared to have fallen into the river.
It is also understood that the force contacted the fishermen on Monday to ask who was allowed to fish in the river on the day of the disappearance.
It raises questions as to why they are now only looking for witnesses.
Mr Ansell is concerned that the communications strategy could cause the search for Ms Bulley (pictured) to lose momentum.
Police outside the Wyreside Farm Park Caravan site on Monday, which is close to the area where Mrs Bulley went missing
Police officers patrol a footpath in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire, on Sunday as they continue their search for missing woman Nicola Bulley.
A local fisherman said: ‘The police were abrupt. They were asking about day ticket sales, what stretches of water the local fishing club owns, what stretches of water they rent, how many members were fishing that day.
“It seems they are trying to find out if anyone was fishing in the river that day and saw anything, but no one.” She said police had contacted the fishermen the first day of her disappearance, but only to ask how deep the water was where she disappeared.
The fisherman emphasized that there were no fishermen there on January 27, the day Ms Bulley disappeared, adding: “The only people who were in the river that day were dog walkers.” I can guarantee you that. ‘
The man, who has been fishing the river for decades, said that if Ms Bulley fell into the water, anyone walking along the bank would not have seen her.
He insisted: ‘I hope she didn’t go into the river for the children’s sake, but if she had, she would have been swept down.
‘If a body enters, it will sink. He was wearing two big coats, wellies, jeans. A body would stay in the ground and the subterranean currents would carry it out.