A TIKTOK ghoul who duped police and covertly filmed as Nicola Bulley's body was retrieved from the river has been unmasked as barber Curtis Arnold.The.
I've walked down and he wouldn't let me pass." I hope her family do not see this." How did you find me?" He has also been criticised for a video he uploaded to another of his channels on February 18 of a "possible burial site". One wrote: "This is disgraceful! "It gives the public a chance to get closer to the event and in the Nicola case I wanted people to watch my footage and see if they noticed that me or the police had missed anything," he added. [Nicola](https://www.thesun.ie/news/10166049/who-is-nicola-bulley/)'s grief-stricken partner, insisting: "I was hoping my videos would trigger a member of the public to come forward with new information." Arnold, whose ambition is to "make a good living" from YouTube full-time, gleefully revealed the £716.06 in royalties that he made from the platform alone, adding: "It is probably £900 by now but it takes a while to come through." He admitted that he lied to police and crouched in a field to film covertly on his Samsung S21 smartphone. As dozens of officers gather and a police helicopter and drone hover overhead, Arnold asks a female colleague on the other side of the cordon: "What's going on down there? He is asked to turn back but dupes the cop into letting him through by claiming that he needs to return to his parked car and saying that he is from Blackpool. [St Michael's on Wyre](https://www.thesun.ie/news/10251750/police-find-body-search-nicola-bulley-missing/) in the space of 10 days to acquire content for his channels.
Barber Curtis Arnold, from Worcestershire, filmed an eight-minute clip of Nicola Bulley's body at the water's edge after police had pulled her from the ...
If they saw it, it can't have been a nice thing for them to have seen and I'm sorry about that." "My ambition is to be a full-time YouTuber and make a good living from it. "He gives all TikTok-ers a bad reputation. "I couldn't see a thing but I knew my camera would be recording whatever was happening. "It gives the public a chance to get closer to the event and in the Nicola case I wanted people to watch my footage and see if they noticed that me or the police had missed anything." I've walked down and he wouldn't let me pass." I hope her family do not see this." But he remains undeterred: "I intend to follow as many breaking news stories as I can in the future and put them on the channel. How did you find me?" One wrote: "This is disgraceful! He said: "I know that has caused a lot of controversy and if it has caused her family any distress, I apologise. The income potential is there and I love doing what I am doing on the channel."
The 34-year-old barber contributed to a social media frenzy that saw influencers flock to St Michael's on Wyre in search of the mother of two.
How did you find me?”, he responded, confessing that he had lied to police and hidden in a field to film the content. Following the hysteria surrounding Ms Bulley’s disappearance, TikTok has threatened to remove users who spread misinformation. Approached by The Sun, Mr Arnold admitted that he was behind the video when asked.
The search for the body of Nicola Bulley saw Lancashire Police slam 'TikTok detectives' for hampering the investigation, and one of the worst of those has ...
It wasn't until I got back to where the mainstream media were gathered that I realised what was on the footage." "It gives the public a chance to get closer to the event and in the Nicola case I wanted people to watch my footage and see if they noticed that me or the police had missed anything." He also admitted that he had earned £716.06 from the footage at the time, but it was “probably £900 by now but it takes a while to come through”. Trying to save face, he went on to apologise to the family of Nicola Bulley, although admitted that he has no plans to stop posting “news” content. [according to The Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nicola-bulley-tiktok-ghoul-unmasked-29309942), Arnold was tracked down via a digital footprint to his salon in the Midlands. And it has now emerged that he lied to police to get to the area where the body was by telling them he had parked his car near there – which was not true – and he bizarrely uploaded the entire conversation with an officer to his channel.