I miss him every day...
Touching tribute by girlfriend as search for airman goes on
THE pregnant girlfriend of missing Scots RAF airman Corrie McKeague has shared a touching photograph of the couple together in one of their favourite spots.
April Oliver shared an image of the pair smiling and wrote: ‘I miss you every second of every day’.
The 21-year-old found out she was expecting just two weeks after her 23-yearold boyfriend disappeared from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, last September.
The young couple had met on a dating site and had only been together for around five months before he went missing almost six months ago.
Since announcing her pregnancy, Miss Oliver has said little publicly. But this week, she shared the image with the 125,000 members on an online page dedicated to finding Mr McKeague, who is originally from Dunfermline, Fife.
She posted the photograph following the news on Thursday that police were ‘confident’ they will find Mr McKeague’s body at a landfill site.
Alongside the picture of the couple smiling together while sitting in a car, Miss Oliver wrote: ‘One of our favourite places to be was on the north Norfolk coast with the roof down, singing silly songs, and walking the dogs.
‘I’d do anything to be back there. I miss you Corrie every second of the day and night.
‘I’ve not posted before, partly because I’ve never felt I had the right words and also because I’ve had a lot of changes.
‘But I wanted to thank every single member on this page from the bottom of my heart for all the love and support you have given. The past months have been incredibly emotional and the support has been utterly amazing, and abled us to get answers we need.’
Commenting on the image, Mr McKeague’s devastated mother Nicola Urquhart said: ‘So much love for you April.’
Shortly after Miss Oliver announced her pregnancy, Mrs Urquhart – who is a serving Police Scotland officer based in Dunfermline – revealed that the couple were members of a swinging site following online speculation.
Yesterday, the search of a 9,900sq ft area of a landfill site in Cambridgeshire continued.
Officers in white suits and breathing masks returned to the rubbish tip in Milton early in the morning.
A bubblegum scent was being blown out to mask the smell of refuse.
A hawk has also been brought in to keep other birds from the landfill site, where officers have now trawled through 100 tons of waste in a search expected to take up to ten weeks.
On the night he disappeared Mr McKeague’s phone was tracked along a route similar to that taken by a bin lorry seen on CCTV in the town.
Earlier this week, Suffolk Police said the vehicle, which was originally thought to weigh too little to contain him, actually had a load weighing more than 100kg (15st 10lb).
Officers have revealed they are ‘confident’ they will find Mr McKeague’s body at the landfill. His father Martin, 48, said that visiting the site was like staring into a ‘piece of hell’.
He said that, like everyone else, he could only guess at what had happened to his son, who went missing after a night out with friends.
The RAF man was last seen on CCTV going into an area of the town called the horseshoe.
Mr McKeague said: ‘I can only speculate it could possibly be some tragic accident that Corrie possibly could have gotten into the bin or something sinister might have happened that might have led him to be put in the bin.’
He described the last six months as ‘a rollercoaster with a lot of lows’.
He said: ‘From the moment that my wife told me, I was grieving from that moment and this has been the most horrendous time.
‘It’s been like a rollercoaster with a lot of lows, an awful lot of lows. But I’m beginning to focus and finding the strength in myself to see this out over the next few days, weeks, however long this is going to take, and the months ahead.’
‘I’d do anything to be back there’ ‘It could be some tragic accident’