Police search new location in bid to find RAF gunner

Police will scour a new site in their search for missing RAF gunner Corrie Mckeague.

The 23-year-old from Fife was last seen walking through Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, after a night out with friends on 24 September, 2016.

A five-month search of a landfill site was called off in July after no evidence of his body was found.

The latest search, which is likely to take up to six weeks, will concentrate on an area next to the site of the earlier search.

The new search area at the site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, is the next most likely place where Mr Mckeague could be found, Suffolk police said.

Mr Mckeague had been based at RAF Honington in Suffolk and was last seen on CCTV at 3:25am on 24 September last year.

Detective Superintendent Katieelliottsaid:“confronted by the variances in the way waste can be deposited andthroughfurtherinvestigation, we cannot discount the possibility Corrie may be elsewhere in Cell 22 [of the landfill site]. Therefore, we believe our decision to extendthesearchareaisthe correct one.”

A bin lorry was caught on CCTV 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.