45, just concluded. nicola bulley was a5, she vanished back injanuary. of course, you remember that massive search in lancashire and at the north of england. we are expecting to hear from the family. let me dish out the live pictures from the coroner s court. we are expecting to hear from the family in the next little while. as soon as that starts we will carry that life here on bbc news. whilst we wait for that, let s turn to the situation in russia and the aftermath of the mutiny by wagner paramilitaries. president putin has said the authorities will now miss you how money paid to the missionaries was spent. early he thanked his security forces, silently stopped a civil war. vladimir putin told troops gathered in the kremlin that they stood up to turmoil which would have let to chaos. he led a minute s silence for pilots killed during that mutiny. the fsb has confirmed that a criminal case against the wagner group has now been dropped. the defence ministry says that the gro
river three weeks to give her body up. but that is what happened. that message needs to go out like a wave, really, to the people who are still making accusations towards that family. because without taking anything away from this, we would not normally be at a case like this where somebody has just fallen into a river accidentally and drowned, but because of all that coverage at the time and all the social media comments, which drove huge interest in what happened to nicola bulley, this is where we end up today. i think people will look back on this very tragic case as a game changer, is something that happens in the world of social media, and i think it will be talked about for many years to come. but the message from the family is absolutely clear leave us alone, it is plain to see what happened. our beloved nicky died in very tragic circumstances
that in those comments. our correspondents, danny savage, is there. danny, time to absorb what they have gone through it at the last few days, the conclusion of this inquest, but returning to some of those themes we had about back in january and february about the wild speculation that had been on social media. i speculation that had been on social media. ~ ., ,., , ..,, media. i think the reason this case has attracted media. i think the reason this case has attracted so media. i think the reason this case has attracted so much media. i think the reason this case has attracted so much attention i media. i think the reason this case | has attracted so much attention for this inquest taking place, and are so many people here and so much interest is because of all that social media with the raw rare of the time, that nicola bulley was missing. there was a three week gap between her vanishing on the river bank and her body being found about 1.5 miles down river. during that time he
next few seconds. let me just put the pictures on the screen because we have had the verdict of that conclusion to report in the last little while. nicola bulley drowning after accidentally falling into cold water, that is what the inquest has concluded. we are waiting to hear from the family and from those in the immediate aftermath. nicola bulley, who was a5, vanished after dropping off her daughters to school and taking her dog for a walk near the river in lancashire onjanuary 27. you may remember that huge search that went on for weeks until she was actually found. now the coroner recording her death as accidental, saying that she had suffered cold water shock, and ruled out suicide. nicola bulley s mobile
information. social media, some corners of it, went mad with wild theory and wild speculation. it has left us family fighting a rearguard action against lies. you heard that being referred to in both of those statements there. the first one from the solicitor representing nicola bulley s family, and at the second one from lancashire police. all trying to, still, stamp out the flames of social media and the nasty, negative comments and horrible theories and straight lies and accusations that have surrounded the disappearance of nicola bulley. and what the coroner has decided here this afternoon and ruled, absolutely correctly and it reasonably after hearing all the evidence put to him, is that nicola bulley accidentally fell into the river that day onjanuary bulley accidentally fell into the river that day on january 27 this year and died almost immediately. the sad fact is that it took that