Mckeague’s mother not giving up

The mother of missing airman Corrie Mckeague has said she has “not given up” on the search for her son.

Nicola Urquhart said she would keep fighting for answers despite Mr Mckeague’s father, Martin Mckeague, saying he was “certain” his son was in the waste disposal system and his remains were “essentially irretrievable”.

Mr Mckeague has said his son is “no longer missing”.

Ms Urquhart wrote in a Facebook post: “If any person feels they have the answers they need to move on, I completely respect that. I can only keep fighting for the answers I need, to do what helps me, my sons and our family through this.

“This is not a criticism of how any other person deals with their guilt or grief.”

Ms Urquhart said a coroner had refused to issue a death certificate, saying Mr Mckeague is missing presumed dead, and that she agrees with this position. “We have not given up,” she wrote. “Corrie is missing, he has not been found, nor has there been any corroborated evidence shown to me yet to say what has happened to my son.”

Mr Mckeague was 23 when he vanished on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in September 2016. Police believe he climbed into a waste bin and was taken away by a refuse lorry.