Nicola Bulley diver Peter Faulding responds to ‘unfair’ new documentary

An expert diver who played a controversial role in the search for Nicola Bulley has hit back at comments about his involvement made by police in a BBC documentary looking at her disappearance.In a statement released on Friday morning, Peter Faulding insisted he had been presented “unfairly” in the programme and wanted to “set the record straight”.Bulley, 45, vanished on 27 January, 2023, after dropping her daughters off at school and then taking her dog for a walk along the River Wyre in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire. The mortgage adviser’s phone was found by a park bench, along with the family dog, Willow, with police suspecting she had fallen into the river.Faulding, a confined space rescue and forensic search specialist, had been interviewed by the media about his expertise, prompting the family to contact his private firm for help. “I was focusing more on the fact that he’d said he’d be able to prove that she wasn’t in the water,” Bulley’s husband Paul Ansell told the…