Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Corrie’s dad blocks landfill search site
THE father of missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague is reported to have blocked the entrance to a landfill site where police were searching for his son.
Officers sifted through 6,500 tonnes of waste at a site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, in an “unprecedented” search for the 23-year-old who disappeared from Bury St Edmunds following a night out in September.
The search, which began in March, was halted last week after no trace of the serviceman was found.
His father, Martin McKeague, was photographed at the landfill site near Cambridge with his motorhome blocking the entrance.
He said: “I hope they make the right decision . . . to continue to look for my son.
“The facts and all the evidence lie in this landfill site and as a father, or mother, or anybody, I think you would probably do the same thing.
“I need them to do the right thing and continue to look for Corrie.”
Corrie’s mother Nicola Urquhart has previously said she is considering taking out an injunction to stop officers filling in the 48-hectare Milton landfill site “until there is more honesty and plain speaking from the police”.
Police said Corrie, who was born i n Perth and raised in Dunfermline, but is now based at Honington, Suffolk, had a history of falling asleep in unusual places, including in bins.
A bin lorry was seen on CCTV near Brentgovel Street in Bury St Edmunds around the time Corrie was last seen, and it took a route which appeared to coincide with the movements of his phone.
The bin lorry linked to the disappearance of Corrie was initially thought to have collected an 11kg (1st 10lb) load, but police said it was later found to be more than 100kg (15st 10lb).
Detective Superintendent Katie Elliott of Suffolk Police said any new lines of inquiry would be pursued “vigorously”, adding: “We have searched the whole area where we believed Corrie could be.
“We had compelling information that directed us to this area, however we haven’t found Corrie and this is bitterly disappointing.
“It’s never been about money in this investigation.”
Asked if she thought Corrie was still on the landfill site, she replied: “I do.”