Police decision to reveal Nicola Bulley details slammed as ‘deeply troubling’

“A shocking decision when the police’s treatment of women is rightly in the spotlight, said Silkie Carlo, director of privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch.

Police officers walk towards a missing person appeal poster for Nicola Bulley on a bridge over the River Wyre in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire (Peter Byrne/PA)

Police searching for missing Nicola Bulley have been slammed for disclosing that the mother-of-two suffered “some significant issues with alcohol” in the past, which had resurfaced over recent months.

Senior officers said on Wednesday that Ms Bulley was “vulnerable” and classed by police as a “high-risk” missing person immediately after her partner Paul Ansell reported her disappearance.