Bones in river are not Corrie

BONES found in two bin bags in a river are not those of missing airman Corrie McKeague, his mother said yesterday.

Nicola Urquhart had feared the remains in the River Stour in Sudbury, Suffolk, were her those of her son, who has been missing since 2016. But she said police had contacted her to rule that out.

A post-mortem examination on the bones failed ‘to establish any form of identification or cause of death’, police said.

Mr McKeague, 23, was based at RAF Honington when he vanished on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, around 16 miles north of Sudbury.