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Missing Corrie’s mum questions police probe
Search: Inquiry believed to have been downgraded by Suffolk officers
The mother of missing Fife serviceman Corrie McKeague has stated she has lost confidence in the police investigation during a television appearance.
The 23-year-old has not been seen since a night out in Bury St Edmunds on September 24.
Mum Nicola Urquhart appeared on Good Morning Britain in an attempt to bolster the search for her son, and questioned the police’s approach.
Nicola, a serving police officer, said: “I do have sympathy for them – however, their chief commissioner Tim Passmore has gone publicly to say this is being treated at the same level as a murder.
“From day one, I was being told that it was being treated as a homicide, without any evidence or a body.
“Is it acceptable to then remove resources so that you can’t view CCTV, that you can’t put the identities of the people you are trying to look for because you don’t have the resources?
“We have got a local couple in Bury St Edmunds who have donated £50,000 to find Corrie and bring him back home.
“We don’t have confidence in the police to be able to deal with the calls – you can’t call after 5pm at night, you can’t call at the weekend, it’s an answer machine.
“If someone is trying to phone up at 3am to tell me where my son is, they might not leave that message, so we’re answering the calls.”