Second landfill search for missing airman called off

A second landfill search for Corrie Mckeague concluded without finding any trace of the missing RAF gunner.

A 20-week operation at Milton, near Cambridge, finished earlier this year, and a second search, lasting seven weeks and involving more than 2,800 tonnes of waste, finished on Monday.

Suffolk Police said the investigation would remain open. Nicola Urquhart, Mr Mckeague’s mother, said: “We now know Corrie is not in the landfill.”

Mr Mckeague was 23 when he was last seen in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in September 2016 after a night out with friends. It was thought he may have climbed into a waste bin and been taken away by a refuse lorry.