The landfill site
The independent report concluded Corrie’s remains lie in the 120-acre landfill site in Milton, Cambs – 30 miles from where Corrie was last seen.
Detectives believe the most likely scenario is that the gunner, based at nearby RAF Honington, got into a recycling bin that was scooped up by a Biffa bin lorry from a horseshoe-shaped storage area and taken to the landfill site.
Officers last year sifted through nearly 10,000 tonnes of rubbish in 27 weeks of searching at the site, but found no sign of his body.
However, police yesterday made the astonishing admission that two separate searches they carried out there may have been in the wrong area of the site.
Suffolk police said: “The records relied upon are not comprehensive and lack the detail required to identify precise search areas. Investigative enquiries identified the landfill site areas where Corrie was most likely to be.
“This does not rule out the possibility of him being elsewhere within that site, or indeed at another landfill site.
“The areas where Corrie could be now, are vast – many times bigger than the area of landfill already searched.
“It would take years to complete. The environmental and legal impact of digging up such deep and wide areas of landfill is significant and prohibitive.”