Former victims’ commissioner Vera Baird says revelations risk hampering future missing person cases
The release of sensitive details about the missing woman Nicola Bulley was “as sexist as it comes”, the former victims’ commissioner has said, asDame Vera Baird condemned the force’s “dreadful” decision to divulge medical information about Bulley, saying it was “the biggest error that I have seen for quite a long time”.that Bulley, 45, had had “significant issues with alcohol”, brought on by the menopause, before she disappeared three weeks ago.
On Friday, the information commissioner said he would be asking the police about their decision to make the disclosure. The row has overshadowed the marking of three weeks since Bulley disappeared from the Lancashire village of St Michael’s on Wyre on 27 January after dropping her two children at school.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I’m afraid this is the biggest error that I have seen for quite a long time. It’s going to just, you know, very sadly, to undermine trust in the police yet further.”
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