An ex-paratrooper who looked into the “Spy in the Bag” case and the murder of April Jones is the search and rescue professional in charge of the search for Nicola Bulley.
A team of divers led by world-renowned forensics expert and founder of Specialist Group International Peter Faulding has been enlisted to assist in the search for a missing mother-of-two. If she is in the river, he has sworn to locate her “in minutes.”
Despite not having discovered any evidence, police claim that their main belief is that Ms. Bulley, who went missing more than a week ago while walking her dog along the River Wyre in Lancashire, slid or fell into the river.
Mr. Faulding, a resident of West Sussex, has been called in to help with a number of cold cases and has been successful in finding human remains that had been hidden for years, the majority of which were discovered in wilderness areas or underwater.
Even the US Secret Service, FBI, and American military have used him as a guest lecturer while he has educated military personnel and police search advisors in the UK.
In order to assist with rescue and missing people operations, Specialist Group International collaborates with police, fire, and other governmental organizations.
Mr. Faulding’s highly disciplined team combines cutting edge technological rescue and specialized search equipment to find persons who have vanished and human remains.
However, Mr. Faulding trained with the London Fire Brigade and UK’s Search & Rescue Teams in collapsed structure shoring and specialized rescue procedures before he became a world-renowned confined space rescue and forensic search expert.
According to the history on his website, he was subsequently chosen for the prestigious Parachute Regiment and served in the military for six years as a parachutist.
After being entrusted with safely rescuing environmental protestors from man-made tunnels under the projected Newbury Bypass road in 1996, the rescue specialist’s career seemed to take off.
He gained notoriety the following year when he expelled anti-roads activist Swampy from tunnels under the projected path of the A30 Honiton Bypass.
He became a major advisor to the Home Office’s “Policing of Environmental Protest” group as a result of his work on protester removal operations.
Mr. Faulding has contributed to several high-profile missing people cases and “no body” murder investigations in addition to his work with demonstrators.
He took part in the hunt for April Jones, a five-year-old who was slain in 2012 after being kidnapped while playing with her bicycle near to her house on the Bryn-y-Gog estate in Machynlleth, Mid-Wales.
Mark Bridger, a 48-year-old former butcher who hoarded images of murdered children and child porn on his laptop, enticed April into his vehicle and took her to his isolated house where he viciously assaulted her, killed her, and then disposed of her corpse.
In May 2013, he was given a life sentence.
In addition, Mr. Faulding provided support in instances involving Scottish serial murderer Peter Tobin, who is regarded as one of the deadliest serial murders in UK history.
Despite being suspected of prior killings, he cruelly took the lives of 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton, Angelika Kluk, and Dinah McNicol.
In 2006, Kluk’s remains was discovered concealed under the floorboards of a Glasgow church.
17 years after they went missing, the corpses of the other two victims were discovered buried in the grounds of his previous house in Margate, Kent. Tobin, who passed away this year, was previously found guilty of raping two females in their early teens in 1993.
In 1998, Mr. Faulding traveled to the US to do research on the use of “ground penetrating radar” and “side scan sonar” to help find remains and missing individuals.
He was a trailblazer in the development of underwater search methods and helped to pioneer the use of this technology in the hunt for missing individuals.
He assisted in the training of some of the UK’s search teams and is a qualified specialist with the National Crime Agency’s Specialist Operations Center.
He has also spoken to US-based expert teams.
Mr. Faulding also possesses pilot’s licenses in the US and UK and is a certified commercial diver, helicopter, and fixed-wing pilot.
Mr. Faulding and his crew are now looking for Ms. Bulley, who vanished more than a week ago while walking her dog in the Lancashire community of St. Michael’s on Wyre.
This morning, Mr. Faulding told The Mirror, “If Nicola is in there, we will locate her.” If she’s present, our sonar will immediately detect her presence. A body will be seen at the bottom. Every summer, we deal with 10 or so drownings. We consistently find within an hour. That fast, that effective.
Due to the small depth, he believes Ms. Bulley, 45, would not have submerged very far, but the shock of the cold water might have “ripped her breath away.”
However, he thinks she could have been able to escape and wouldn’t have been pulled under.
Normally, people would shout out, flutter about, and the dog would probably remain with the owner. I’m not sure whether there were any other people around. I feel like there’s something off about this,’ he continued.
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