People called to say they had dumped my missing son in a bin
Mum of airman Corrie reveals what she was told
THE heartbroken mum of missing RAF airman Corrie McKeague says she was told a man had mugged him and put him in a bin the night he vanished.
Nicola Urquart made the sensational revelation after a coroner formally opened an inquest on Friday.
And she says she has also been left tormented by a second claim, that Corrie was beaten and left for dead by a taxi driver after he was sick.
Corrie was last seen during a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in September 2016. Police believe the 23-year-old died after drunkenly climbing into a Greggs bin which was then emptied into a lorry.
Police traced his mobile phone signal showing it had travelled around 14 miles in a vehicle shortly after 4am.
A search of nearly 10,000 square feet of rubbish in Milton, Cambs, ended without success.
Nicola, who now accepts Corrie is dead, said: “I received a call from a member of the public saying they knew somebody who said he and his friend had tried to rob Corrie. It had gone wrong and they’d put him in the bin. I told the police about this. They said this was huge. I wasn’t to tell anybody.”
Speaking about the second allegation, Nicola, 51, added: “The lady phoned to say her husband, a taxi driver, had picked Corrie up that night, heading towards his base, but the boy started being sick, so the driver stopped and tried to drag the boy out. He ended hitting him over the head with this bat, dragged him into woods and left him. He got his wife to clean up the sick. She believes it was Corrie and reported that.” Nicola said the police said they had discredited the woman’s story.
She added: “It’s not good enough e to say you’ve done all you can. O On top of that this person said they were in the woods and saw what they believed were the r remains of a burned b body. “They tried to report this th time and again. I
too took it to the police because they weren’t getting anywhere.” The £2million investigation was shelved in 2018. Ni c o l a , of Dunfermline, Fife, has lost faith in the police and wants the coroner to probe all evidence.
A pre- inquest review is due on February 5 and a full inquest is expected next year.
Nicola added: “It’s fantastic we’re getting the inquest as they’re independent.”
Somebody said he and a friend tried to rob Corrie.
CORRIE’S MUM NICOLA WHAT SHE WAS TOLD