Stress tells on Corrie’s mum-to-be girlfriend
April admitted to hospital
The stress of Corrie McKeague’s disappearance put his pregnant girlfriend in hospital.
The RAF gunner’s mum Nicola Urquhart revealed April Oliver’s plight – and that of her baby – in a question and answer session on the Find Corrie Facebook page yesterday.
Corrie, 23, from Dunfermline, has been missing since he disappeared on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, last September.
He met April, 21, five months previously and it emerged she was pregnant with their child in January.
Nicola was responding to a wellwisher who hoped April was doing well in the latter stages of pregnancy.
She wrote: “Thank you. Hopefully everyone who has had any doubt about the nonsense being told about Corrie knowing April was pregnant will have been able to work out that it’s physically impossible for April to have known she was pregnant at the time Corrie went missing as she would have had the baby by now.
“Sadly, the stress has put the baby at risk and she was hospitalised, requiring strong drugs to try to help baby. But she’s a fantastic mum already and managed to get herself and baby through it.
“She is not due yet but is doing very well. I will pass on your message. Hopefully she will get some peace until baby arrives.”
Nicola admitted she was losing confidence that the search of a landfill site Milton, Cambridgeshire, will result in her son being found. She was asked: “You seemed to originally believe the search at the landfill would lead to Corrie being found. Do you still hold that belief ?” Nicola responded: “Yes, I do believe the strongest possibility is that Corrie has left the area in the bin lorry. I did think he would have been found by now, though, so it’s hard to remain confident.” But she revealed that she doesn’t believe the buildings around the area where the last known sighting of Corrie was had been searched properly. Police suspect a bin lorry may have taken Corrie to the landfill site after it was discovered that the weight of its load was more than 100kg.