No trace of Corrie McKeague at incinerator site

Police to conduct review of investigation for new lines of inquiry

Detectives searching for RAF gunner Corrie McKeague have found no trace of him in waste recovered from an incinerator.

The site at Great Blakenham, near Ipswich, was examined after the search of a landfill site at Milton, Cambridgeshire, was called off.

While the incinerator site was known to contain animal bones from food waste, no human bone material was found.

Mr McKeague, who was based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, vanished after a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds last September.

Police still believe the 23-year-old’s remains are somewhere in the landfill site at Milton but called off the search after 20 weeks.

A Suffolk Police spokesman said: “Suffolk Police have engaged experts to examine incinerated waste gathered from the Great Blakenham energyfrom-waste facility and it has been confirmed that this matter does not contain human bone material.”

A review of the investigation to date will be conducted by the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU).

“The aim of the review is to assist in identifying whether there are any other lines of inquiry that should be pursued that could lead to information that would locate Corrie McKeague,” the police spokesman added.

“Investigative reviews are a key part of any lengthy major investigation and we are confident this will be a detailed and impartial review.

“If this review establishes further lines of inquiry, we will pursue them.”

A bin lorry was seen on CCTV near Brentgovel Street in Bury St Edmunds around the time Mr McKeague was last seen.

It took a route which appeared to coincide with the movements of his phone.

Corry McKeague was last seen in Bury St Edmunds last September.