BREAKING Nicola Bulley’s family slam ‘speculation and rumours’ in latest bombshell statement

Missing mum Nicola Bulley’s family have issued a statement slamming public ‘speculation and rumours’.

The family of missing mother Nicola Bulley have said they “believe that the public focus has become distracted from finding Nikki, and more about speculation and rumours into her private life”, in a statement issued through Lancashire Police.

It comes a day after a revealing press conference in which the force justified its investigation so far.

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