Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Corrie police may have got wrong lorry
Claim of missing RAF airman’s mum
THE mum of missing airman Corrie Mckeague has revealed police may have been following the wrong bin lorry in the search for her son.
Nicola Urquhart said investigating officers have now found a further three vehicles could have moved Corrie’s body from a refuse transfer station.
Nicola said the initial bin lorry thought to have picked up her son’s body did not collect all of the rubbish from a bay at the station and another three made collections there.
Earlier this year, more than £1million was spent by search teams combing the Milton landfill site, in Cambridgeshire, but found no trace of Corrie.
Nicola’s claims suggest police may have been looking in the wrong area.
Suffolk Police announced yesterday it will restart its search for Corrie at the landfill site next week. The 23-year-old RAF serviceman has not been seen since disappearing after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in September last year. It is thought he may have been sleeping in a bin near the centre of the town.
Nicola, of Dunfermline, Fife, said on the Find Corrie Facebook page she had “repeatedly” asked officers if any other vehicles entered the landfill site, but was “consistently told no”.
She said: “I felt that they must have been following the wrong lorry and if Corrie was in the landfill, it must be in another area... Thankfully the MIT [Major Investigation Teams] stuck with this... and they have now uncovered new information.” Corrie’s uncle Tony Wringe accused Suffolk Police of “playing catch-up”.
But Det Supt Katie Elliott said: “We are not playing catchup. We commenced the search in March. That search was extended twice. We came to the point where we had to stop.”