THE ghoul who filmed Nicola Bulley's physique being pulled from the river is a fraudster who tricked ladies into taking fitness center photos.
Physique-builder Curtis Arnold, 34, duped cops and covertly filmed as officers recovered the tragic mum from the River Wyre in Lancashire.
He posted the grim footage on a number of social media channels, together with TikTok and YouTube.
Arnold's sickening eight-minute clip sparked a wave of condemnation - however its close to million views have earned him virtually £1,000 in royalties.
And final night time he advised The Solar: "Yeah maybe it was a step too far, however I can not take it again."
Now we are able to reveal Arnold is a "narcissistic" and "manipulative" conman with a string of legal convictions, together with housebreaking, fraud, drink driving and perverting the course of justice.
Arnold, who runs a barber store in Kidderminster, has a prolonged rap sheet going again to his early 20s and a newer fraud cost in 2018, for which he served jail time.
He visited a number of gyms within the London space posing as a health modelling agent who wanted fashions to advertise a agency's vary of feminine leggings.
He then took a sequence of sexualised images and movies of ladies which he shared on his social media to promote his personal health merchandise - with out their permission.
He served time on the infamous Wormwood Scrubs jail in London after being convicted of fraud by false illustration.
A supply on the jail stated he was unpopular with the employees there.
The supply stated: "He was a really narcissistic, manipulative particular person and would recurrently attempt to manipulate feminine employees, particularly schooling employees.
"He was slimy and would inform them they have been lovely or he most well-liked them over one other officer.
"He would say very inappropriate issues and would ask for his or her cell numbers and ask to see them exterior of the jail.
"However when he began asking feminine employees to smuggle in telephones and medicines for him, all of it went down on his report."
The supply stated Arnold was sacked from his job as a reception orderly on the jail - a trusted function coping with incoming prisoners.
"It was found he was a part of a bunch smuggling gadgets into jail so he was sacked," they added.
Arnold's chequered previous features a six-month suspended jail sentence handed to him in March 2010 at Hereford Crown Courtroom for perverting the course of justice related with altering his automobile licence plate.
By October that 12 months he was hauled earlier than the courts once more for breach of a suspended sentence when he was arrested for drink driving on the M6 when he was practically twice the alcohol restrict.
The subsequent month, he pleaded responsible to receiving two registration plates stolen from a automobile parked in West Bromwich.
And that very same month a courtroom heard how Arnold broke right into a home storage in Kidderminster and stole instruments.
He admitted housebreaking, though it is unclear what his sentence was.
However amazingly the then 22-year-old averted jail for the breach when a choose confirmed leniency as a result of was starting to indicate indicators of maturity by working arduous on changing into a private coach.
As an alternative the choose imposed eight days specified exercise for the breach and a 12-month neighborhood order for dealing with the stolen quantity plates.
For the drink driving Arnold was slapped with £500 positive and was banned from the roads for 3 years.
DARK PAST
Arnold, who's single and lives in a three-bedroom indifferent home close to the barber’s store he runs, stated his legal convictions "don't have anything to do" with the Nicola Bulley case and are "outdated information".
"I've had my punishment," he added, whereas insisting "it wasn't younger ladies" he was taking snaps of in gyms.
Arnold additionally stated claims he tricked a police officer to entry the Nicola Bulley scene are "deceptive".
He stated: "I received previous there to seek out out what was occurring, the video of the police going into the river was half an hour in a while the opposite facet of the river."
Requested whether or not he was making the most of the movies he is posted, he stated: "Probably not, it price me 80 quid gasoline there and again and I am not making way more than that on the movies.
"The views aren't tens of millions, are they, they're solely hundreds."
Arnold says he regrets posting the video.
"In fact I do, the movies on there are very useful to folks, I've that suggestions, however that exact video...yeah maybe it was a step too far, however on the time the principle media have been speeding over there to movie it and I simply presumed that, yeah, nice I can simply get what they're getting as a result of lots of people wish to watch," he stated.
"However in hindsight maybe I should not have posted that video, I've eliminated it, however I can not take it again."
He added that he has confronted extreme backlash since being uncovered.
"I've had my home broken, my automobile broken, my office broken, I have been assaulted, I've had demise threats, I've had all kinds of drama," he stated.
However when The Solar started to press him on his legal convictions and skim a few of the expenses towards him, together with filming younger ladies in leggings, he hung up.
'HE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MORE VIEWS'
Arnold's social media claims to supply "media and journalism carried out in another way" however hides his identification on-line.
He's cautious to not seem on digital camera, and generally makes use of an image of Nicola's accomplice Paul Ansell as his profile picture.
However he was unmasked after being tracked all the way down to his barber store from his digital footprint and channel rebrand.
The powerlifter made 5, six-hour spherical journeys from his Worcestershire house to St Michael's on Wyre within the house of 10 days to amass content material for his on-line following.
Arnold's most sickening video from the village opens together with his GoPro, mounted to a harness round his neck, filming a male police officer blocking his path.
He's requested to show again however tips the cop into letting him via by claiming that he must return to his parked automobile and saying that he's from Blackpool.
As dozens of officers collect and a police helicopter and drone hover overhead, Arnold asks a feminine colleague on the opposite facet of the cordon: "What is going on on down there? I've walked down and he would not let me go."
She additionally directs him to depart the world however the video then cuts to Arnold filming covertly as officers elevate what seems to be a physique bag.
Many viewers reacted with horror to his footage headlined "Nicola Bulley *breaking* police discovered one thing".
One wrote: "That is disgraceful! Think about if that was your beloved. I hope her household doesn't see this."
One other stated: "You want your head taking a look at filming this. Her youngsters will see this sooner or later, you vile man."
Somebody who is aware of Arnold properly stated: "He'll do something for extra views to generate income.
"He provides all TikTok-ers a foul popularity."
So many sleuths descended on St Michael's on Wyre that, at one level, cops needed to concern a 48-hour dispersal order to clear the village of outsiders.
Lancashire Police has come beneath fireplace for its dealing with of the investigation typically.
The pressure now faces three exterior inquiries over the 23-day search for mortgage adviser Nicola.
The Unbiased Workplace for Police Conduct is probing a welfare go to to the household house made by an officer two weeks earlier.
And coaching and coverage physique the Faculty of Policing will study each the hunt and the choice to launch details about an alcohol concern triggered by the menopause.
The Solar revealed final night time that Lancashire Police was blasted by watchdogs three months earlier than she vanished.
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary discovered the pressure "requires enchancment at investigating crime".
It added that officers didn't “all the time perform thorough and well timed investigations” and that “victims aren’t all the time up to date on progress”.
Nicola was discovered a mile downstream from the place she is believed to have fallen in.
Nicola was discovered a mile downstream from the place she is believed to have fallen in.
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