The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
‘All I want is closure’ – Corrie’s father tells of anguish a year on
search: Martin McKeague in campaign aiming to jog memories
The father of missing Fife airman Corrie McKeague is hoping a police campaign in Bury St Edmunds will shed light on his son’s disappearance.
Martin McKeague, 48, is spending the weekend in the Suffolk town, where Corrie went missing a year ago.
He and his wife Trisha joined officers last night in the town centre, where they spoke to people in the hope it would jog memories about events 12 months ago.
“The people of Bury St Edmunds have been quite helpful. I’m expecting the same thing to happen this time,” he said.
Suffolk Constabulary has released images of a number of people who they believe may have interacted with Corrie shortly before his disappearance in the early hours of Saturday September 24 last year.
“We need to have these people identified and spoken to, to see if that can shed any light on what happened,” said Mr McKeague, of Cupar.
Corrie, who was a gunner based at RAF Honington, 10 miles away from Bury St Edmunds, had gone out with friends on Friday September 23 and failed to turn up to work the following Monday.
It is believed he may have fallen asleep in a bin and ended up at a landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire.
Police spent 20 weeks sifting through waste at the site but found no traces of Corrie, who would have celebrated his 24th birthday earlier this month.
Mr McKeague said he travelled to Milton each week during the search.
He said: “This is all I have done for a year – tried to find my son. And I’ll continue to keep trying to find my son.”
He added: “I have never held out any hope to see my son alive.
“I thought something sinister had happened to him from the first week that I was down there. All these thoughts go through your head.
“All I want is closure and to find my son. I’m not interested or bothered about anything else that is going on.”
He said of the one-year milestone: “It’s just as difficult as when it was the second week, the third week or the fourth week.”
Police confirmed four of the individuals featured on CCTV images released to the media earlier this week have now been identified.