Missing airman’s mum: My son is dead and in a landfill
THE mother of missing airman Corrie McKeague last night said she believes her son is dead and his body is in a landfill site in Cambridgeshire.
Nicola Urquhart said she came to that conclusion after it was revealed that a mistake had been made in the recorded weight of a bin that her son may have been sleeping in on the night he disappeared. It suggests the 23year-old RAF gunner may have ended up in the back of a bin lorry and been dumped at a landfill site.
Mrs Urquhart, 48, said the news ‘can really, devastatingly, only mean one thing’. Following Mr McKeague’s dis- appearance, Suffolk Police discovered the movement of his mobile phone signal matched that of a bin lorry, which had picked up the contents of a Greggs wheelie bin in the early hours of September 24. The signal stopped about 14 miles away.
The lorry was impounded, but no forensic clues linking it to Mr McKeague were found.
Last night detectives revealed that a bin lorry had collected 220lbs of waste from a wheelie bin at the spot where the serviceman was last seen – having previously said the weight of the collection was only 24lbs.
The new information raises the possibility that Mr McKeague may have crawled into the bin to sleep after a drunken night out and was dumped into the lorry’s crusher.
The development comes a day after police began a search of a landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire.