as we ve been hearing, a review has concluded the release of personal information by police investigating nicola bulley s disappearance was avoidable and unnecessary. the mum of two went missing in lancashire, prompting a huge search before her body was eventually found in the river wyre. lancashire police was criticised for revealing she had been struggling with the menopause and alcohol issues. live now to zoe billingham who previously served as his majesty s inspector of constabulary. iam i am interested for your reaction to these findings. thoughts first of all to the family of nicola bulley. this report is quite right. i remember the news that the police were releasing personal information about someone who had been missing for a number of weeks, stopped us in our tracks, and it s caused lots of women in particular to question whether such deeply personal information relating to perhaps someone s mental health, the fact that they were going through menopause, what on ear
appeal from north wales location was known, and so we had an appealfrom north wales police, social media posts, from the boys families, from a show where they were studying, to say that they were very concerned. and we know that the silver ford fiesta has been the cover further up that road. we have heard from a crystal, crystal, one of the mothers of the boys. she said that she did not know that they would come here to north wales. she has been frantically worried. he was a student at shrewsbury college, hassan, we believe. he left home on saturday night, but they did not know he was coming here, they thought he was going somewhere else. they have been tearing their hair out over the past 2a hours or so, as soon as it became clear that they had come to north wales, and secondly that they had disappeared. there was no contact with them at all since that sighting. since the telecommunications that happened. that was a mackie. in a s chief mike chris whitley has been giving