It breaks my heart I’ll never cuddle Corrie’s little girl
Dad of tragic RAF gunner on his agony after family fallout
weight of bins normally collected and than the 11kg (1st 10lb) they initial ly told pol ice they had picked up. Police investigations also found the movement of Corrie’s mobile phone after he disappeared mirrored the movement of the waste lorry with the unusually heavy load. Despite a 27-week search of a 120-acre landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, where the contents of the bin lorry ended up, his body was never found.
A two-week inquest held earlier this month at Suffolk Coroner’s Court heard Corrie, who was stationed at RAFHonington, had previously slept in a bin and also under bin bags on past nights out. The inquest jurors ruled he died after climbing into the commercial waste bin, which was col lected a shor t t ime later and its contents crushed in the back of the bin lorry.
Martin, who attended the inquest with Trisha, sat just yards from his granddaughter’s mother as well as his other two sons, Makeyan,an, 31, and Darroch, 26, and their eir mother, h is ex- wi fe e Nicola Urquhart, during the hearing.
He said there was no contact between the deeply divided family.
Martin has previously revealed to the Sunday y Mai l that Makeyan and Darroch cut him from theireir lives after heated rows in the stressfuldaysstressfuldays following Corrie’s disappearance.
He says he was denied any relat ionship with Apr i l a f ter contradicting statements given by both Nicola and April herself that
Corrie didn’t know she was pregnant when he vanished.
He claims fitness instructor April, who had met Corrie f ive months earlier on a dating website, revealed the pregnancy to the airman during a trip to London days before he went missing.
Martin said: “Corrie did know about the baby. There is nothnothing wrong with saying he kknew about the baby. I havhave never understood whwhy anyone has said othotherwise.
“I wouldn’t lie and say CorCorrie didn’t know she was pregnant.p He did.
“We will likely never be allowed to see Corrie’s daughter, our grandchildgrandchild, because we refused to lie.
“My sons Darroch and Makeyan still have no contact with me or any of the McKeague side of the family.
“Both of the boys are married now
and none of us (the McKeagues) were at the weddings. Not their grandparents, not their aunts or their uncles.
“They have cut everybody off from our side of the family, even Trisha’s daughters who they had been close to.
“We didn’t even know Makeyan was getting married until someone told us after they saw it in the paper.”
Makeyan married Cloe Rawlinson in North Queensferry, Fife, last August. Ellie-Louise was a flower girl at the ceremony.
In an online post at the time, Corrie’s mum Nicola said: “Corrie, as always, is never far from our thoughts. His little girl Ellie was the perfect flower girl.”
Darroch married Leah McElrea in July 2018 after meeting the search volunteer while helping to look for Corrie.
Leah said: “I thank Corrie every single day for bringing us together but if I could give Darroch his brother back and I would not have my happiness, I would give that to him.”
Martin, who worked in Malta as a deck supervisor in the oil industry before Corrie’s death, said the inquest hadn’t revealed any new information about what had happened to his son but said the ruling had been welcomed.
He said: “It only took the jury three hours and 42 minutes to come to the conclusion they did after the facts and evidence were presented to them.
“I have fought for five- and- a-half years for the truth to be heard. Now it’s all out in the open for everyone to see and hear.”
He added: “These last years have been very difficult. I’ve lost my job and house as a result of everything that’s happened – searching for my son and the toll it’s taken on the health of both Trisha and I.
“I do feel like a weight has been lifted from our shoulders since the inquest gave its findings. We will never get over losing Corrie but it feels like now we can start to grieve.”
We only
Ellie know what because looks like her we’ve seen the photo in papers. She’s beautiful