Bin lorry driver saw a man in clothes like RAF gunner Corrie Mckeague’s

A BIN lorry driver has told an inquest he saw a man wearing lightcoloured trousers and a pink shirt, like RAF gunner Corrie Mckeague had been wearing, when he drove into the area where the missing airman was last seen on CCTV.

Mr Mckeague, from Dunfermline, was 23 when he disappeared in the early hours of

September 24, 2016, after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

He was last seen on CCTV at 3.25am that day, entering a service area behind a Greggs store.

Police believe the serviceman, who was stationed at RAF Honington, climbed into a bin, which was then tipped into a waste lorry.

Bin lorry driver Martyn Thompson told an inquest that he arrived at the service area at 4.19am.

He said: “As I put the handbrake on the vehicle, I looked out of the driver’s window, that’s when I saw another individual.”

He said the man was wearing light-coloured trousers and a pink shirt, leaning against a wall and “looking at a mobile phone, as the screen was illuminated”.

He said he got out of the lorry to empty the Greggs bin and then did not see the man again.

Asked by Peter Taheri, counsel to the inquest, if he checked inside the bin before emptying it, Mr Thompson said: “I did check the bin because me and a colleague of mine, we always had this thing with that particular job.

“It always had very little in it, two plastic bags.”

Asked if there was anyone inside, he replied: “No, there wasn’t.”

Mr Taheri asked if Mr Thompson gave the bin a “good enough kick to rouse anyone inside”, and Mr Thompson replied: “Absolutely.”