Corrie mum: My son is still missing & we won’t give up
Nicola wants answers on disappearance
THE mother of RAF gunner Corrie McKeague said yesterday she hasn’t given up hope of finding her son.
Nicola Urquhart believes it’s “unlikely” Corrie is still alive but she had too many unanswered questions to stop searching.
She spoke out after her ex-husband Martin McKeague said Corrie was “no longer missing”.
Martin, 49, is certain his son’s body is in a landfill site but cannot be retrieved.
Corrie, 23, from Dunfermline, vanished in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in 2016 after a night out.
Detectives concluded he climbed into a bin whose contents were taken away.
Ex-police officer Nicola, 48, wrote on Facebook: “Corrie is missing, he has not been found, nor has there been any corroborated evidence shown to me yet to say what has happened to my son. We have not given up.”
She also told BBC Radio Scotland: “We have so many questions still to be answered by the police. “Until we have all those answers, we’re certainly not of a mind everything’s been done and we start moving on with the grieving process.” On her ex-husband’s views, she said: “If the way that Martin feels is what’s helping him cope then that’s fine. I have no problem with that.
“It may be he just doesn’t know things that I do. It may be that he’s content in his own mind to move on.”
Asked if she thinks Corrie is alive, she replied: “Unfortunately no. I think that it’s very unlikely.
“There’s not been one single proof of life but that doesn’t mean I can’t do everything I can to try and find him.”
Suffolk Police ended their investigation in April.