My Corrie did NOT climb in the bin and is NOT in landfill
Missing airman’s mum says search will go on
THE mother of missing RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague claims that he did not climb into a bin and is not in landfill.
Nicola Urquhart, 49, revealed a lack of CCTV in the hours after he vanished means the airman could have walked or been driven out of the area he was last seen in.
She says the new information “changes everything” in the search for her son, last seen on a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in September 2016.
Detectives investigating the airman’s disappearance believe he climbed into a bin and was transported to a waste site around 30 miles away.
Specialist search teams spent 27 weeks scouring the landfill near Cambridge last year but found no trace of Corrie’s remains.
In a lengthy statement on the Find Corrie Facebook group, Nicola said: “Initially, I was told by the RAF that no one would have been able to leave this area [Horseshoe] without being captured on this CCTV.
“The senior investigating officer then confirmed this fact. We have now been told this is not accurate.
“Corrie could have left in a vehicle after 7am and could have walked out in any direction after midday. The reason for this is the CCTV was only collected in the immediate area up to midday.”
Following his disappearance, it was initially thought Corrie, who was based at RAF Honington, may have tried to go home.
Nicola said that when Corrie went missing, there was a massive search carried out from Bury to Honington covering the area that a person might have been expected to walk. She added: “Suffolk MIT have drawn a line of the most direct way to walk ‘as the crow flies’. This area has been searched.
“However, when I have been with Corrie, including the week before he disappeared, he drove from Honington to Bury on each occasion by driving along the A134 and along Green Lane.
“April [his partner] has also confirmed this is the way Corrie would usually drive. The search for Corrie walking back to Honington only covers the right-hand side fields of this road with only the verge on the other side being searched.”
The £2million hunt to find Corrie was shelved earlier this year after police admitted having “no realistic lines of inquiry left to pursue”.
Suffolk Police said his disappearance would now be passed to a cold case team.
Responding to Nicola’s claims, a spokesman for Suffolk Constabulary said yesterday: “While we have always remained open-minded, we continue to stand by what we have previously stated.
“The most likely scenario is that Corrie McKeague unfortunately went into the bin which was emptied into the Biffa lorry and consequently ended up in the waste process.”