The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
100ft-wide crater dug – and still no sign of Corrie
search: Airman’s mother says she will just continue to wait for police to call
A 100ft-wide crater has been gouged out of a landfill site in the search for missing Fife airman Corrie McKeague.
Officers looking for Corrie, from Dunfermline, have sifted through nearly 5,000 tonnes of waste since February.
However, they have found no trace of the 23-year-old, who went missing on September 24 2016 after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, about 10 miles away from his base at RAF Honington.
He was last seen on CCTV taking a nap in a doorway. Police believe he may have then entered a bin loading area and been taken away by a waste collection lorry.
It has been revealed a lorry leaving the area was nearly 200lb heavier than initially thought.
Data from Corrie’s mobile phone has suggested he followed the route of the lorry on its way to the landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire.
His mother Nicola Urquhart, 48, said officers would continue the search throughout this week.
She wrote on the Find Corrie Facebook page: “The area the police are searching in the landfill is known as a ‘cell’.
“As they got to the edges they could see the dates of the rubbish was going back far too early, prior to when Corrie disappeared.
“On one side however, the rubbish is still being found with dates and locations to show they are still in the correct area so they are slowly working their way back to the edges of the entire cell.
“If Corrie is in this landfill he could literally be found tomorrow. So we continue to wait for the phone call.
“The police will continue to search this area of the landfill until they either find Corrie or the rubbish clearly shows it has gone back too far in date ranges.
“I pray this search comes to an end for them and us soon.”